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Doyle, Arthur Conan

"The Adventures Of Sherlock Holmes"

I have given you all the facts. Since you ask me, however, I may say that it has occurred to me as possible that the excitement of this affair, the consciousness that she had made so immense a social stride, had the effect of causing some little nervous disturbance in my wife."


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"In short, that she had become suddenly deranged?"


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"Well, really, when I consider that she has turned her back -- I will not say upon me, but upon so much that many have aspired to without success -- I can hardly explain it in any other fashion."


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"Well, certainly that is also a conceivable hypothesis," said Holmes, smiling. "And now, Lord St. Simon, I think that I have nearly all my data. May I ask whether you were seated at the breakfast-table so that you could see out of the window?"


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"We could see the other side of the road and the Park."


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"Quite so. Then I do not think that I need to detain you longer.


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