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1
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sinewy forearm and wrist..

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all dotted and scarred with innumerable puncture marks

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2
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his great powers..

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his masterly manner

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‘my mind,’ he said..

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‘rebels at stagnation. give me problems, give me work….. and i am in my own proper atmosphere’

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4
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expression of extraordinary..

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concentration upon his clean- cut hawk-like features

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5
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automaton, ….

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a calculating machine… inhuman at times

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6
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mary’s sensitive face..

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was composed but pale

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7
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entered the room with…

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a firm step and an outward composure of manner

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her lip trembled…

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her hand quivered, and she showed every sign of intense inward agitation.

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9
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you are a wronged woman…

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and shall have justice

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10
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an army surgeon..

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with a weak leg and a weaker banking account

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11
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he was bright..

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eager and in excellent spirits

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12
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it was clear that…

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he thought our night’s work might be a serious one

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13
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a dense, drizzly

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fog lay low upon the great city

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14
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staring brick buildings..

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the monster tentacles which the giant city was throwing ot into the country

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15
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we had indeed…

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reached a questionable and forbidding neighbourhood

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16
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mud-coloured clouds…

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dropped sadly over the muddy streets

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17
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an oasis of art…

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in the howling desert of South London

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18
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in that sorry house…

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it looked as out of place as a diamond of the first water in a setting of brass

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19
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the strange, jerky little fellow…

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with his high, shining face

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20
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it was a bearded, hairy face…

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with wild cruel eyes and an expression of concentrated malevolence

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21
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pondicherry lodge stood in its own grounds…

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and was girt round with a very high stone wall topped with broken glass

22
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a gravel path..

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wound through desolate grounds to a huge clump of house

23
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the vast size of the building..

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with its gloom and its deathly silence, struck a chill to the heart

24
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in a horrible smile…

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a fixed and unnatural grin…. more jarring to the nerves than any scowl or contortion

25
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simple as the case seems now…

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there may be something deeper underlying it

26
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holmes’ beady eyes…

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gleaming and deep- set like those of a bird

27
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so swift,…

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silent and furtive were his movements, like those of a trained blood hound

28
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jones was red faced,

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burly and with a pair of very small twinkling eyes

29
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looked keenly out…

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from between swollen and puffy pouches

30
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after the angelic fashion of women…

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she had borne trouble with a calm face

31
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i had found her

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bright and placid by the side of the frightened housekeeper

32
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might mary look upon me…

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as a mere vulgar fortune seeker?

33
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i could not bear to risk…

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that such a thought should cross her mind

34
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this agra treasure…

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intervened like an impassable barrier between us

35
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in rushed a dozen..

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dirty and ragged little street arabs

36
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they are fierce…

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morose and intractable people

37
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naturally hideous,

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having large, misshapen heads, small fierce eyes and distorted features

38
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this infernal problem…

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is consuming me

39
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was it not possible that

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his nimble and speculative mind had built up this wild theory upon faulty premises?

40
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his expression was downcast…

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and his bearing meek and even apologetic

41
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heap it on stokers…

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make the boat do all she can!

42
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the furnaces roared,

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and the powerful engines whizzed and clanked, like a great metallic heart

43
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with every throb of the engines

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we sprang and quivered like a living thing

44
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a little black man…

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with a great misshapen head and tangled, dishevelled hair

45
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somewhere in the dark ooze

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at the bottom of the thames lie the bones of that strange visitor to our shores

46
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fell over her sweet, grave face..

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and tinted with a dull, metallic sparkle the rich coils of her luxuriant hair

47
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whoever had lost a treasure,

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i knew that night that i had gained one

48
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i saw the fury…

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and passion of the man (jon small)

49
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there were 97 very fine emeralds

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and 170 rubies

50
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‘there still remains the cocaine bottle’

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and he stretched his long white hand up for it

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