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Victorian Mourning Customs

Men simply wore their usual dark suits along with black gloves / Widows were expected to wear full mourning for two years.

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The Red Headed League (02.05)

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There was a gleam in his eyes and a suppressed excitement in his manner which convinced me, used as I was to his ways, that his hand was upon a clue, though I could not imagine where he had found it.

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I was nearer him than anyone else, and yet I was always conscious of the gap between [us]

The Illustrious Client

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He raised his eyes languidly from the old black-letter volume which he had opened. “It is cocaine,” he said,—“a seven-per-cent solution. Would you care to try it?”

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“Well, Watson, what do you make of it?”

Holmes was sitting with his back to me, and I had given him no sign of my occupation.

“How did you know what I was doing? I believe you have eyes in the back of your head.”

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It was not merely that Holmes changed his costume. His expression, his manner, his very soul seemed to vary with every fresh part that he assumed. The stage lost a fine actor, even as science lost an acute reasoner, when he became a specialist in crime.

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So it was, my dear Watson, that at two o’clock to-day I found myself in my old arm-chair in my own old room[...]

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I am a brain, Watson. The rest of me is a mere appendix. Therefore, it is the brain I must consider.

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“Several times during the last three years I have taken up my pen to write to you, but always I feared lest your affectionate regard for me should tempt you to some indiscretion which would betray my secret.”

The Empty House

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The Resident Patient (02.04)

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Violinist Hands

“yet he was possessed of extraordinary delicacy of touch, as I frequently had occasion to observe when I watched him manipulating his fragile philosophical instruments.”

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Ladies Appreciation -> Irene Norton, neé Adler

“And that was how a great scandal threatened to affect the kingdom of Bohemia, and how the best plans of Mr. Sherlock Holmes were beaten by a woman’s wit. He used to make merry over the cleverness of women, but I have not heard him do it of late.”

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