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The _Alligator_ put in at Malta for twenty-four hours, and all the passengers landed and "did" the sights. Reginald, in company with some fellow-sightseers, visited the cathedral, the fried monks, and other noteworthy objects, and, sentimental as it sounds, he strolled past the house where he had first met Alice.
"Who would have thought," he said to himself, "that that simple, unsophisticated girl would have turned out so hard and unyielding? She had given him a bitter lesson; he had done with her and all womankind, that was certain; " but before he reached Port Saïd his heart was considerably softened.