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The Sign of the Four

CHAPTER VII
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His height is readily calculated from the length of his stride, and we know that he was bearded.

His hairiness was the one point which impressed itself upon Thaddeus Sholto when he saw him at the window.

I don't know that there is anything else." "The associate ?" "Ah, well, there is no great mystery in that.

But you will know all about it soon enough.

How sweet the morning air is! See how that one little cloud floats like a pink feather from some gigantic flamingo.
Now the red rim of the sun pushes itself over the London cloud-bank.
It shines on a good many folk, but on none, I dare bet, who are on a stranger errand than you and I.How small we feel with our petty ambitions and strivings in the presence of the great elemental forces of nature! Are you well up in your Jean Paul ?" "Fairly so.


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