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or no; for there was nobody to care for them, had they been
ever so plain.
The gas-lamps were lighted; Mrs. Bedwin was waiting
anxiously at the open door; the servant had run up the
street twenty times to see if there were any traces of Oli-
ver; and still the two old gentlemen sat, perseveringly, in the
dark parlour, with the watch between them.