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The night was still -- clear and starlit.
Between two and three in the morning is the one hour when, in London, the very houses seem to slumber, save in a few districts, such as Fleet Street, Covent Garden and its purlieus, where night and day are alike -- equally active, equally feverish -- those streets which never sleep.