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A REQUEST.
It surely was my profit had I known It would have been my pleasure had I seen.
"Why did he come back ?" Jocelyn had risen as if to intimate that, if he cared to do so, they would sit in the verandah.
"Why did Mr.Durnovo come back ?" she repeated; for Jack did not seem to have heard the question.

He was drawing forward a cane chair with the leisurely debonnair grace that was his, and, before replying, he considered for a moment.
"To get quinine," he answered.
Without looking at her, he seemed to divine that he had made a mistake.
He seemed to know that she had flushed suddenly to the roots of her hair, with a distressed look in her eyes.

The reason was too trivial.
She could only draw one conclusion.
"No," he continued; "to tell you the truth, I think his nerve gave way a little.

His health is undermined by this climate.