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CHAPTER XXXI
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But he don't make the progress I should like.

It's the weakness that follows the malarial attack that the doctor has to fight against." "Where is he ?" asked Jocelyn.
"Well, miss, at the moment he is in the drawing-room.

We bring him down there for the change of air in the afternoon.

Likely as not, he's asleep." And presently Jack Meredith, lying comfortably somnolent on the outskirts of life, heard light footsteps, but hardly heeded them.

He knew that some one came into the room and stood silently by his couch for some seconds.


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