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" 'I should be happy to make myself useful.'

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" 'Quite so. In dress now, for example. We are faddy people, you know -- faddy but kind-hearted. If you were asked to wear any dress which we might give you, you would not object to our little whim. Heh?'

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" 'No,' said I, considerably astonished at his words.

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" 'Or to sit here, or sit there, that would not be offensive to you?'

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" 'Oh, no.'

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" 'Or to cut your hair quite short before you come to us?'

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"I could hardly believe my ears. As you may observe, Mr. Holmes, my hair is somewhat luxuriant, and of a rather peculiar tint of chestnut.


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