Sherlock Holmes prese il suo flacone dall'angolo della mensola del caminetto e la sua siringa ipodermica da un elegante astuccio di marocchino. Con le sue dita lunghe e nervose infilò l'ago sottile e arrotolò la manica sinistra della camicia. Per un po', osservò pensoso l'avambraccio muscoloso e il polso, costellati di innumerevoli segni di punture. Alla fine, infilò con gesto deciso la siringa, premette il pistone e si abbandonò nella poltrona di velluto con un lungo sospiro di soddisfazione.
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«Cos'è oggi», gli chiesi, «morfina o cocaina?»
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«Cocaina», rispose, «soluzione al sette per cento. Vuole provarla?»
But love is an emotional thing, and whatever is emotional is opposed to that true cold reason which I place above all things.
Arthur Conan DoyleThis room is not well adapted as a cell, and Mr. Patrick Cairns occupies too large a portion of our carpet.
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The most common place crime is often the most mysterious, because it presents no new or specific features from which deductions may be drawn
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I observe that there is a good deal of German music on the programme, which is rather more to my taste than Italian or French. It is introspective, and I want to introspect.
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The swing of his nature took him from extreme languor to devouring energy; and as I knew well, he was never so truly formidable as when, for days on end, he had been lounging in his armchair amid his improvisations and his black-letter editions. Then it was that the lust of the chase would suddenly come upon him, and that his brilliant reasoning power would rise to the level of intuition, until those who were unacquainted with his methods would look askance at him as on a man whose knowledge was not that of other mortals. When I saw him that afternoon so enwrapped in the music of St. James's Hall I felt that an evil time might be coming upon those whom he had set himself to hunt down.
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Wonderful!" I ejaculated.
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Individuals vary, but percentages remain constant. So says the statistician.
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A strange enigma is man
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Holmes was for the moment as startled as I. His hand closed like a vice upon my wrist in his agitation. Then he broke into a low laugh and put his lips to my ear.
"It is a nice household," he murmured. "That is the baboon.
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