But love, gratified love, will, we believe, keep out even an English east wind.

If so, it is certainly the only thing that will.
Charley, therefore, wrote to Norman, telling him that he could remain in his old home, and humbly asking permission to remain there with him.

To this request he received a kind rejoinder in the affirmative.

Though Charley was related to Alaric, there had always apparently been a closer friendship between him and Norman than between the two cousins; and now, in his fierce unbridled quarrel with Alaric, and in his present coolness with the Woodwards, he seemed to turn to Charley with more than ordinary affection.
Norman made his appearance at the office on the first Monday of the new year.

He had hitherto sat at the same desk with Alaric, each of them occupying one side of it; on his return he found himself opposite to a stranger.