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Quotes from The Return of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle
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1 The natural action of a man in pursuing a little boy would be to run after him.
2 I suppose that you will admit that the action is morally justifiable, though technically criminal.
3 I have no desire to make mysteries, but it is impossible at the moment of action to enter into long and complex explanations.
4 And yet his first action, when the door had closed behind him, was to stagger against the table, whence he slipped down upon the floor, and there was that majestic figure prostrate and insensible upon our bearskin hearth-rug.
5 I have already said that I do not believe that the Duchess would encourage so monstrous an action, but the lad had the most wrong-headed opinions, and it is possible that he may have fled to her, aided and abetted by this German.
6 The addition of a P and a D completed a message which showed me that the rascal was proceeding from persuasion to threats, and my knowledge of the crooks of Chicago prepared me to find that he might very rapidly put his words into action.
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