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1  We had reached Baker Street and had stopped at the door.
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2  It was a smart little landau which rattled up to the door of Briony Lodge.
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3  The door of Briony Lodge was open, and an elderly woman stood upon the steps.
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4  The cab and the landau with their steaming horses were in front of the door when I arrived.
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5  At the church door, however, they separated, he driving back to the Temple, and she to her own house.
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6  Two hansoms were standing at the door, and as I entered the passage I heard the sound of voices from above.
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ContextHighlight   In II. THE RED-HEADED LEAGUE
7  A slow and heavy step, which had been heard upon the stairs and in the passage, paused immediately outside the door.
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8  With an apology for my intrusion, I was about to withdraw when Holmes pulled me abruptly into the room and closed the door behind me.
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ContextHighlight   In II. THE RED-HEADED LEAGUE
9  Our cabs were dismissed, and, following the guidance of Mr. Merryweather, we passed down a narrow passage and through a side door, which he opened for us.
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ContextHighlight   In II. THE RED-HEADED LEAGUE
10  He appeared to be in a great hurry, shouted to the cabman to wait, and brushed past the maid who opened the door with the air of a man who was thoroughly at home.
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11  It was close upon four before the door opened, and a drunken-looking groom, ill-kempt and side-whiskered, with an inflamed face and disreputable clothes, walked into the room.
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12  However, when our turn came the little man was much more favourable to me than to any of the others, and he closed the door as we entered, so that he might have a private word with us.
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ContextHighlight   In II. THE RED-HEADED LEAGUE
13  As it pulled up, one of the loafing men at the corner dashed forward to open the door in the hope of earning a copper, but was elbowed away by another loafer, who had rushed up with the same intention.
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14  As he spoke there was a tap at the door, and the boy in buttons entered to announce Miss Mary Sutherland, while the lady herself loomed behind his small black figure like a full-sailed merchant-man behind a tiny pilot boat.
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ContextHighlight   In III. A CASE OF IDENTITY
15  Mr. Merryweather stopped to light a lantern, and then conducted us down a dark, earth-smelling passage, and so, after opening a third door, into a huge vault or cellar, which was piled all round with crates and massive boxes.
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ContextHighlight   In II. THE RED-HEADED LEAGUE
16  Sherlock Holmes welcomed her with the easy courtesy for which he was remarkable, and, having closed the door and bowed her into an armchair, he looked her over in the minute and yet abstracted fashion which was peculiar to him.
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17  As I passed the well-remembered door, which must always be associated in my mind with my wooing, and with the dark incidents of the Study in Scarlet, I was seized with a keen desire to see Holmes again, and to know how he was employing his extraordinary powers.
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