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The Hound of the Baskervilles

CHAPTER 6
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"A glance at our friend here reveals the rounded head of the Celt, which carries inside it the Celtic enthusiasm and power of attachment.

Poor Sir Charles's head was of a very rare type, half Gaelic, half Ivernian in its characteristics.

But you were very young when you last saw Baskerville Hall, were you not ?" "I was a boy in my teens at the time of my father's death and had never seen the Hall, for he lived in a little cottage on the South Coast.
Thence I went straight to a friend in America.

I tell you it is all as new to me as it is to Dr.Watson, and I'm as keen as possible to see the moor." "Are you?
Then your wish is easily granted, for there is your first sight of the moor," said Dr.Mortimer, pointing out of the carriage window.
Over the green squares of the fields and the low curve of a wood there rose in the distance a gray, melancholy hill, with a strange jagged summit, dim and vague in the distance, like some fantastic landscape in a dream.

Baskerville sat for a long time, his eyes fixed upon it, and I read upon his eager face how much it meant to him, this first sight of that strange spot where the men of his blood had held sway so long and left their mark so deep.


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