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Speaking the truth meant the Moorsoms going away at once while it seemed to him that he would give the last shred of his rectitude to secure a day more of her company. He sat on silent. Slowly, from confused sensations, from his talk with the professor, the manner of the girl herself, the intoxicating familiarity of her sudden hand-clasp, there had come to him a half glimmer of hope.
The Moorsoms did manage to catch the homeward mail boat all right, but had only twenty-four hours in town. Thus the sentimental Willie could not see very much of them. This did not prevent him afterwards from relating at great length, with manly tears in his eyes, how poor Miss Moorsom the fashionable and clever beauty found her betrothed in Malata only to see him die in her arms.
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