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"Here is a very fashionable epistle," I remarked as he entered. "Your morning letters, if I remember right, were from a fish-monger and a tide-waiter."
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"Yes, my correspondence has certainly the charm of variety," he answered, smiling, "and the humbler are usually the more interesting. This looks like one of those unwelcome social summonses which call upon a man either to be bored or to lie."
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He broke the seal and glanced over the contents.
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"Oh, come, it may prove to be something of interest, after all."
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"Not social, then?"
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"No, distinctly professional."
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"And from a noble client?"
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"One of the highest in England."
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"My dear fellow. I congratulate you."
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"I assure you, Watson, without affectation, that the status of my client is a matter of less moment to me than the interest of his case.
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