"Should I ever marry, Watson, I should hope to inspire my wife with some feeling which would prevent her from being walked off by a housekeeper when my corpse was lying within a few yards of her."
Sherlock Holmes

January 1, 1970

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Part 1, Chap. 6, p. 801

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