The Complete Sherlock Holmes

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• '......Because there was no reliable test. Now we have the Sherlock Holmes test, and there will no longer be any difficulty.' His eyes fairly glittered as he spoke, and he put his hand over his heart and bowed as if to some applauding crowd conjured up by his imagination. (查看原文)

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• 'I see it, I deduce it. How do I know that you have been getting yourself very wet lately, and that you have a most clumsy and careless servant girl?' 'My dear Holmes,' said I, 'this is too much. You would certainly have been burned had you lived a few centuries ago. It is true that I had a country walk on Thursday and came home in a dreadful mess, but as I have changed my clothes I can't imagine how you deduce it. As to Mary Jane, she is incorrigible, and my wife has given her notice, but there, again, I fail to see how you work it out.' He chuckled to himself and rubbed his long, nervous hands together. 'It is simplicity itself,' said he, 'my eyes tell me that on the inside of your left shoe, just where the firelight strikes it, the leather is scored by six almost parallel cuts...... I m... (查看原文)

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