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My own complete happiness and the home-centred interests which rise up around the man who first finds himself master of his own establishment were sufficient to absorb all my attention while Holmes who loathed every form of society with his whole Bohemian soul remained in our lodgings in Baker Street buried among his old books and alternating from week to week between cocaine and ambition the drowsiness of the drug and the fierce energy of his own keen nature.
. . .I lent the ostlers a hand in rubbing down their horses and received in exchange twopence a glass of half-and-half two fills of shag tobacco and as much information as I could desire about Miss Adler to say nothing of half a dozen other people in the neighbourhood in whom I was not in the least interested but whose biographies I was compelled to listen to."
. . ."Away they went and I was just wondering whether I should not do well to follow them when up the lane came a neat little landau the coachman with his coat only half-buttoned and his tie under his ear while all the tags of his harness were sticking out of the buckles.
. . .I do not know whether he was seized with compunction at that moment for the part he was playing but I know that I never felt more heartily ashamed of myself in my life than when I saw the beautiful creature against whom I was conspiring or the grace and kindliness with which she waited upon the injured man.
. . .Once only had I known him to fail in the case of the King of Bohemia and of the Irene Adler photograph.[]
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