[The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle]@TWC D-Link bookThe Adventures of Sherlock Holmes IX 51/53
"No, sir, Dr.Becher is an Englishman, and there isn't a man in the parish who has a better-lined waistcoat.
But he has a gentleman staying with him, a patient, as I understand, who is a foreigner, and he looks as if a little good Berkshire beef would do him no harm." The station-master had not finished his speech before we were all hastening in the direction of the fire.
The road topped a low hill, and there was a great widespread whitewashed building in front of us, spouting fire at every chink and window, while in the garden in front three fire-engines were vainly striving to keep the flames under. "That's it!" cried Hatherley, in intense excitement.
"There is the gravel-drive, and there are the rose-bushes where I lay.
That second window is the one that I jumped from." "Well, at least," said Holmes, "you have had your revenge upon them.
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