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The Complete Sherlock Holmes. 1894-1895 - Vol.
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But I could not quite gather whether my host was taking me up to my dressing-room to show me what he had just now finished, or what he hoped to finish by way of a treat.
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To make matters worse, his associates began to arrive, and they seemed to be always just in time to see me turning the corner.
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The next that I remember of that drive is that we turned out of the High Street of Edinburgh and into a broad, bare, cold street.
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The Professor’s rooms were at the top of a short flight of stairs, and at the foot of these he handed me over to a “wait-woman,” who showed me upstairs, I cannot say how I loathed the sight of that “buried treasure.”
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“I’ve no apologies to make,” said he, “for I did my best, and I am now a man past the middle-age.
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I cannot remember that I was ever in London, or that my visits to that city were very frequent.
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A well-appointed house, with some beautiful and valuable pictures on the walls, a cabinet of books, a few choice wines and old Scotch, and an American phonograph, had charmed away most of my time.
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Herbert Allen’s flat was on the first floor, and his servant was seated on a three-legged stool at a little window opening out upon the street.
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An invalid is not very happy unless he has a man to stand beside him and look after him; and so, I suppose, the man on the stool was not very happy unless he could be watching the flitting crowds.
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He was a tall, slim fellow, with lank hair, and a face singularly pale.
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I found the man much changed, and in the course of the next half-hour learned that he had for some time been growing worse, until he had reached that stage when one’s last hope becomes one’s ac619d1d87
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