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I should have known what fruit would spring from such a seed . BYRON . That Sunday night was not one of London 's black nights that have been so often described . The police began to be a little sharp with the people after nine or ten o'clock , and by midnight the streets were getting tolerably clear . For the great majority , I believe it had been a day of more or less pleasurable excitement and amusement . For the minority , who were better informed , it was a day and night of curious bewilderment and restless anxiety . I looked in at several newspaper offices on my way home from South Kensington , but found that subordinate members of the staffs had no information to give , and that their superiors maintained an attitude of strict reticence .