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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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my mind..

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rebels at stagnation

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3
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automaton..

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a calculating machine… inhuman at times

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4
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you are a wronged women

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and shall have justice

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5
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mary’s sensitive face

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was composed but pale

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6
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with a weak leg

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and a weaker banking account

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7
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he thought..

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our night’s work might be a serious one

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8
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staring brick buildings…

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

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9
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reached a…

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questionable and forbidding neighbourhood

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10
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mud coloured clouds

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drooped sadly over the muddy streets

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11
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it looked as out of place

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as a diamond of the first water in a setting of brass

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12
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an oasis of art…

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in the howling desert of south london

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13
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wild cruel eyes…

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and an expression of concentrated malevolence

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14
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wound through

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desolate grounds to a huge clump of house

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15
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in a horrible smile..

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

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16
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holmes’ beady eyes

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gleaming and deep set like those of a bird

17
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simple as the case seems now…

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there may be something deeper underlying it

18
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jones was red faced…

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burly and with a pair of small twinkling eyes

19
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looked keenly out…

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from between swollen and puffy pouches

20
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she had borne trouble..

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with a calm face

21
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might mary look upon me…

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as a mere vulgar fortune seeker?

22
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this agra treasure…

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intervened like an impassable barrier between us

23
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in rushed…

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a dozen dirty and ragged little street arabs

24
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naturally hideous…

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

25
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the furnaces roared…

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

26
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at the bottom of the thames…

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lie the bones of that strange visitor to our shored

27
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whoever had lost a treasure..

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i knew that night that i had gained one

28
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there still remains the cocaine bottle…

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and he stretched his long white hand up for it

29
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when you have eliminated the impossible…

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whatever remains, however improbable must be the truth

30
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detection is..

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or ought to be an exact science and should be treated in the same cold and unemotional manner