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1  "A presentation, I see," said Holmes.
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2  You interest me very much, Mr. Holmes.
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3  "I observed it as you entered the room," said Holmes.
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4  Sherlock Holmes waved our strange visitor into a chair.
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5  "Come, come, we are not so far wrong, after all," said Holmes.
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6  Holmes stretched out his hand for the manuscript and flattened it upon his knee.
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7  Holmes was sitting with his back to me, and I had given him no sign of my occupation.
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8  A dabbler in science, Mr. Holmes, a picker up of shells on the shores of the great unknown ocean.
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9  "Really, Watson, you excel yourself," said Holmes, pushing back his chair and lighting a cigarette.
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10  As he entered his eyes fell upon the stick in Holmes's hand, and he ran towards it with an exclamation of joy.
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11  Holmes was silent, but his little darting glances showed me the interest which he took in our curious companion.
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12  Holmes leaned back in his chair, placed his finger-tips together, and closed his eyes, with an air of resignation.
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13  I laughed incredulously as Sherlock Holmes leaned back in his settee and blew little wavering rings of smoke up to the ceiling.
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14  No mention of that local hunt, Watson," said Holmes with a mischievous smile, "but a country doctor, as you very astutely observed.
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15  When Dr. Mortimer had finished reading this singular narrative he pushed his spectacles up on his forehead and stared across at Mr. Sherlock Holmes.
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16  Mr. Sherlock Holmes, who was usually very late in the mornings, save upon those not infrequent occasions when he was up all night, was seated at the breakfast table.
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17  I came to you, Mr. Holmes, because I recognized that I am myself an unpractical man and because I am suddenly confronted with a most serious and extraordinary problem.
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