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UNIT 9. Arthur Conan Doyle, The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (excerpt)

they were really odd ones; the one having a slightly deco

rated toecap, and the other a plain one. One was buttoned

only in the two lower buttons out of five, and the other at

the first, third, and fifth. Now, when you see that a young

lady, otherwise neatly dressed, has come away from home

with odd boots, halfbut-toned, it is no great deduction

to say that she came away in a hurry.”

“And what else?” I asked, keenly interested, as I al

ways was, by my friend’s incisive reasoning.

“I noted, in passing, that she had written a note be

fore leaving home but after being fully dressed. You ob

served that her right glove was torn at the forefinger,

but you did not apparently see that both glove and finger

were stained with violet ink. She had written in a hurry

and dipped her pen too deep. It must have been this morning,

or the mark would not remain clear upon the finger.

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