It begins with Watson describing what it was like to live with Holmes, as he “keeps cigars in the coal-scuttle, his tobacco in the toe end of a Persian slipper and his unanswered correspondence transfixed by a jack-knife into the very centre of his wooden mantelpiece.”
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Només començar Holmes és descrit per Watson com “un home que guarda els cigars a la carbonera, el tabac a la puntera d’una babutxa i que clava la correspondència pendent de despatxar amb una navalla al centre exacte del relleix de fusta”.
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