fyodorpavlov:“It is with a heavy heart that I take up my pen to write these the last words in
fyodorpavlov:“It is with a heavy heart that I take up my pen to write these the last words in which I shall ever record the singular gifts by which my friend Mr. Sherlock Holmes was distinguished. In an incoherent and, as I deeply feel, an entirely inadequate fashion, I have endeavored to give some account of my strange experiences in his company from the chance which first brought us together at the period of the ‘Study in Scarlet,’ up to the time of his interference in the matter of the ‘Naval Treaty’ – an interference which had the unquestionable effect of preventing a serious international complication. It was my intention to have stopped there, and to have said nothing of that event which has created a void in my life which the lapse of two years has done little to fill.“ -- source link
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