1 The sight of a friendly face in the great wilderness of London is a pleasant thing indeed to a lonely man.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan DoyleContextHighlight In PART I: CHAPTER I. MR. SHERLOCK HOLMES 2 I was removed from my brigade and attached to the Berkshires, with whom I served at the fatal battle of Maiwand.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan DoyleContextHighlight In PART I: CHAPTER I. MR. SHERLOCK HOLMES 3 There I was struck on the shoulder by a Jezail bullet, which shattered the bone and grazed the subclavian artery.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan DoyleContextHighlight In PART I: CHAPTER I. MR. SHERLOCK HOLMES 4 Having completed my studies there, I was duly attached to the Fifth Northumberland Fusiliers as Assistant Surgeon.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan DoyleContextHighlight In PART I: CHAPTER I. MR. SHERLOCK HOLMES 5 The regiment was stationed in India at the time, and before I could join it, the second Afghan war had broken out.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan DoyleContextHighlight In PART I: CHAPTER I. MR. SHERLOCK HOLMES 6 In the exuberance of my joy, I asked him to lunch with me at the Holborn, and we started off together in a hansom.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan DoyleContextHighlight In PART I: CHAPTER I. MR. SHERLOCK HOLMES 7 On landing at Bombay, I learned that my corps had advanced through the passes, and was already deep in the enemy's country.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan DoyleContextHighlight In PART I: CHAPTER I. MR. SHERLOCK HOLMES 8 Under such circumstances, I naturally gravitated to London, that great cesspool into which all the loungers and idlers of the Empire are irresistibly drained.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan DoyleContextHighlight In PART I: CHAPTER I. MR. SHERLOCK HOLMES 9 Choosing the latter alternative, I began by making up my mind to leave the hotel, and to take up my quarters in some less pretentious and less expensive domicile.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan DoyleContextHighlight In PART I: CHAPTER I. MR. SHERLOCK HOLMES 10 Worn with pain, and weak from the prolonged hardships which I had undergone, I was removed, with a great train of wounded sufferers, to the base hospital at Peshawar.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan DoyleContextHighlight In PART I: CHAPTER I. MR. SHERLOCK HOLMES 11 There I stayed for some time at a private hotel in the Strand, leading a comfortless, meaningless existence, and spending such money as I had, considerably more freely than I ought.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan DoyleContextHighlight In PART I: CHAPTER I. MR. SHERLOCK HOLMES 12 I followed, however, with many other officers who were in the same situation as myself, and succeeded in reaching Candahar in safety, where I found my regiment, and at once entered upon my new duties.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan DoyleContextHighlight In PART I: CHAPTER I. MR. SHERLOCK HOLMES 13 Here I rallied, and had already improved so far as to be able to walk about the wards, and even to bask a little upon the verandah, when I was struck down by enteric fever, that curse of our Indian possessions.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan DoyleContextHighlight In PART I: CHAPTER I. MR. SHERLOCK HOLMES 14 So alarming did the state of my finances become, that I soon realized that I must either leave the metropolis and rusticate somewhere in the country, or that I must make a complete alteration in my style of living.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan DoyleContextHighlight In PART I: CHAPTER I. MR. SHERLOCK HOLMES 15 On the very day that I had come to this conclusion, I was standing at the Criterion Bar, when some one tapped me on the shoulder, and turning round I recognized young Stamford, who had been a dresser under me at Barts.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan DoyleContextHighlight In PART I: CHAPTER I. MR. SHERLOCK HOLMES 16 I should have fallen into the hands of the murderous Ghazis had it not been for the devotion and courage shown by Murray, my orderly, who threw me across a pack-horse, and succeeded in bringing me safely to the British lines.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan DoyleContextHighlight In PART I: CHAPTER I. MR. SHERLOCK HOLMES 17 I was dispatched, accordingly, in the troopship "Orontes," and landed a month later on Portsmouth jetty, with my health irretrievably ruined, but with permission from a paternal government to spend the next nine months in attempting to improve it.
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