“It was from the reigning family of Holland, though the matter in which I served them was of such delicacy that I cannot confide it even to you, who have been good enough to chronicle one or two of my little problems.”

017. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ON-xgTq4C5KFQTs2rCgpVLDAXID-DNKy/view?usp=sharing

“And have you any on hand just now?” I asked with interest.

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“Some ten or twelve, but none which present any feature of interest. They are important, you understand, without being interesting.

019. https://drive.google.com/file/d/17J8Lw85ip997Ca8YmPN5HceTOeLGLII4/view?usp=sharing

Indeed, I have found that it is usually in unimportant matters that there is a field for the observation, and for the quick analysis of cause and effect which gives the charm to an investigation.

020. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1otPmcQCD0HeCU2d_igzY20Bz8eOwq0Qf/view?usp=sharing

The larger crimes are apt to be the simpler, for the bigger the crime the more obvious, as a rule, is the motive. In these cases, save for one rather intricate matter which has been referred to me from Marseilles, there is nothing which presents any features of interest.

021. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1eEixyY5VczXBcDJaZtD8T3Ckr8fAjUVf/view?usp=sharing

It is possible, however, that I may have something better before very many minutes are over, for this is one of my clients, or I am much mistaken.”

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He had risen from his chair and was standing between the parted blinds gazing down into the dull neutral-tinted London street.

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Looking over his shoulder, I saw that on the pavement opposite there stood a large woman with a heavy fur boa round her neck, and a large curling red feather in a broad-brimmed hat which was tilted in a coquettish Duchess of Devonshire fashion over her ear.

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From under this great panoply she peeped up in a nervous, hesitating fashion at our windows, while her body oscillated backward and forward, and her fingers fidgeted with her glove buttons.

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Suddenly, with a plunge, as of the swimmer who leaves the bank, she hurried across the road, and we heard the sharp clang of the bell.

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“I have seen those symptoms before,” said Holmes, throwing his cigarette into the fire. “Oscillation upon the pavement always means an affaire de cœur. She would like advice, but is not sure that the matter is not too delicate for communication. And yet even here we may discriminate.