. The new Magdalen : a novel . id ; you willregret it. Grace declined to accept the warning. Ihave placed confidence in you, she went on. It is ungenerous to lay me under an obliga-tion, and then to shut me out of your confi-dence in return. You will have it ? said Mercy shall have it! Sit down again. 2—2 20 The New Magdalen. Graces heart began to quicken its beat inexpectation of the disclosure that was to drew her chair closer to the chest onwhich the nurse was sitting. With a firmhand Mercy put the chair back to a distancefrom her. Not so near me! she saidharshly. Why n
. The new Magdalen : a novel . id ; you willregret it. Grace declined to accept the warning. Ihave placed confidence in you, she went on. It is ungenerous to lay me under an obliga-tion, and then to shut me out of your confi-dence in return. You will have it ? said Mercy shall have it! Sit down again. 2—2 20 The New Magdalen. Graces heart began to quicken its beat inexpectation of the disclosure that was to drew her chair closer to the chest onwhich the nurse was sitting. With a firmhand Mercy put the chair back to a distancefrom her. Not so near me! she saidharshly. Why not ? Not so near, repeated the sternly reso-lute voice. Wait till you have heard what Ihave to say. Grace obeyed without a word more. Therewas a momentary silence. A faint flash oflight leapt up from the expiring candle, andshowed Mercy crouching on the chest, Avithher elboAvs on her knees, and her face hiddenin her hands. The next instant the room wasburied in obscurity. As the darkness fell onthe two women the nurse CHAPTER THE SECOND.^lAGDALEN IN MODERN TIMES. HEN your mother was alive wereyou ever out with her after night-fall in the streets of a greatcity ?In those extraordinary terms Mercy Mer-rick opened the confidential interview whichGrace Roseberry had forced on her. Graceanswered simply, I dont understand you. I will put it in another way/ said thenurse. Its unnatural hardness and sternnessof tone passed away from her voice, and itsnative gentleness and sadness returned, as shemade that reply. You read the newspaperslike the rest of the world,^ she went on ; have you ever read of your unhappy fellow 2 2 The New Magdalen. creatures (the starving outcasts of the popula-tion) whom Want has betrayed to Sin ? Still wondering, Grace answered that shehad read of such things in newspapers andin books. Have you heard—when those starvingand sinning fellow creatures happened to bewomen—of Refuges established to protectand reclaim them ? The wonder in Graces mind p
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