When night fell, the conversations stopped, and the lawyer thought of his children, Cuca and Bebe, both of whom were abroad.

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Pereda died suddenly, when Cuca was five and Bebe was seven.

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Sometimes, when Cuca had learned to play a whole piece, the maid and the cook would come to listen, too, and the lawyer, filled with pride, would hear them murmur words of praise, which struck him at first as excessive, but then, on reflection, seemed perfectly apt.

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