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"But his wife -- you said that she had ceased to love him."

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"This hat has not been brushed for weeks. When I see you, my dear Watson, with a week's accumulation of dust upon your hat, and when your wife allows you to go out in such a state, I shall fear that you also have been unfortunate enough to lose your wife's affection."

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"But he might be a bachelor."

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"Nay, he was bringing home the goose as a peace-offering to his wife. Remember the card upon the bird's leg."

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"You have an answer to everything. But how on earth do you deduce that the gas is not laid on in his house?"

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"One tallow stain, or even two, might come by chance; but when I see no less than five, I think that there can be little doubt that the individual must be brought into frequent contact with burning tallow -- walks upstairs at night probably with his hat in one hand and a guttering candle in the other.


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