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"He said that you could solve anything."

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"He said too much."

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"That you are never beaten."

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"I have been beaten four times - three times by men, and once by a woman."

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"But what is that compared with the number of your successes?"

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"It is true that I have been generally successful."

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"Then you may be so with me."

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"I beg that you will draw your chair up to the fire and favour me with some details as to your case."

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"It is no ordinary one."

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"None of those which come to me are. I am the last court of appeal."

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"And yet I question, sir, whether, in all your experience, you have ever listened to a more mysterious and inexplicable chain of events than those which have happened in my own family.


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