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The Hound of the Baskervilles (houn)

47148    'You never tire of the moor.
47149    You cannot think the wonderful secrets which it contains.
47150    It is so vast, and so barren, and so mysterious.'
47151    'You know it well, then?'
47152    'I have only been here two years.
47153    The residents would call me a new-comer.
47154    We came shortly after Sir Charles settled.
47155    But my tastes led me to explore every part of the country round, and I should think that there are few men who know it better than I do.'
47156    'Is it so hard to know?'
47157    'Very hard.
47158    You see, for example, this great plain to the north here, with the queer hills breaking out of it.
47159    Do you observe anything remarkable about that?'
47160    'It would be a rare place for a gallop.'
47161    'You would naturally think so, and the thought has cost folk their lives before now.
47162    You notice those bright green spots scattered thickly over it?'

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