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was she a widow ; and, unfortunately for his standard 

 of respectability, when we asked who was the father 

 of the child, he answered laughingly, " duien sabe V 

 "Who knows?" At ten o'clock he lighted a long 

 bundle of sticks at one of the candles burning at the 

 head of the child, and we went away. 

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