A Study in Scarlet (Serial Edition Cover) — page 22: what you’re looking at

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14 A STUDY IN SCARLET. it was all mottled over with similar pieces of plaster and discolored with strong acids. “We came here on business,” said Stamford, sitting down on a three-legged stool, and pushing another one in my direction with his foot. ‘ My friend here wants to take diggings, and as you were complaining that you could get no one to go halves with you, I thought that I had better bring you together.” Sherlock Holmes seemed delighted at the idea of sharing his rooms with me. . “T have my eye on a suite in Baker street,” he said, “which would suit us down to the ground. You don’t mind the smell of strong tobacco, I hope ?” “I always smoke ‘ship’s’ myself,” I answered. “That’s good enough. I generally have chemicals about, and occasionally do experiments. Would that annoy you ?” “By no means.” “Let me see—what are my other shortcomings? | get in the dumps at times, and don’t open my mouth for days on end. You must not think I am sulky when I do that. Just let me alone, and I'll soon be all right. What have you to confess, now? It’s just as well for two fellows to know the worst of each other before they begin to live together.” I laughed at this cross-examination. “T keep a bull-pup,” I said, “and object to rows, be- Cause my nerves are shaken, and I get up at all sorts of ungodly hours, and I am extremely lazy. I have an- other set of vices when I’m well, but those are the prin- cipal ones at present.” Gomicboo SE