Человек с рассечённой губой. Книга для чтения на английском языке - стр. 6
043. https://drive.google.com/file/d/119c1OMdH7Wh0_Zx8mw-LcHAX9pWUoTmF/view?usp=sharing
I should recommend you also to send a note by the cabman to your wife to say that you have thrown in your lot with me. If you will wait outside, I shall be with you in five minutes.”
044. https://drive.google.com/file/d/106uEivQrlLQMIwThe4MNijSC_b6qCp2-/view?usp=sharing
It was difficult to refuse any of Sherlock Holmes’ requests, for they were always so exceedingly definite, and put forward with such a quiet air of mastery.
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I felt, however, that when Whitney was once confined in the cab my mission was practically accomplished; and for the rest, I could not wish anything better than to be associated with my friend in one of those singular adventures which were the normal condition of his existence.
046. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1H4qZc0oRDpNJvCD_bWVf_BPXWPle2NtV/view?usp=sharing
In a few minutes I had written my note, paid Whitney’s bill, led him out to the cab, and seen him driven through the darkness. In a very short time a decrepit figure had emerged from the opium den, and I was walking down the street with Sherlock Holmes.
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For two streets he shuffled along with a bent back and an uncertain foot. Then, glancing quickly round, he straightened himself out and burst into a hearty fit of laughter.
048. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1hBdv-cW59TLl9iLfej32rLjoNoLDhyh6/view?usp=sharing
“I suppose, Watson,” said he, “that you imagine that I have added opium-smoking to cocaine injections, and all the other little weaknesses on which you have favoured me with your medical views.”
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“I was certainly surprised to find you there.”
“But not more so than I to find you.”
“I came to find a friend.”
“And I to find an enemy.”
“An enemy?”
050. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1AM33y9sLxwoHnSIADsUW9jbgTBBj9ua1/view?usp=sharing
“Yes; one of my natural enemies, or, shall I say, my natural prey. Briefly, Watson, I am in the midst of a very remarkable inquiry, and I have hoped to find a clue in the incoherent ramblings of these sots, as I have done before now.
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Had I been recognised in that den my life would not have been worth an hour’s purchase; for I have used it before now for my own purposes, and the rascally Lascar who runs it has sworn to have vengeance upon me.