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A Scandal in Bohemia (scan)

50901    Now for the Eg.
50902    Let us glance at our Continental Gazetteer.'
50903    He took down a heavy brown volume from his shelves.
50904    'Eglow, Eglonitz - here we are, Egria.
50905    It is in a German-speaking country - in Bohemia, not far from Carlsbad.
50906    "Remarkable as being the scene of the death of Wallenstein, and for its numerous glass factories and paper mills."
50907    Ha, ha, my boy, what do you make of that?'
50908    His eyes sparkled, and he sent up a great blue triumphant cloud from his cigarette.
50909    'The paper was made in Bohemia,' I said.
50910    'Precisely.
50911    And the man who wrote the note is a German.
50912    Do you note the peculiar construction of the sentence - "This account of you we have from all quarters received."
50913    A Frenchman or Russian could not have written that.
50914    It is the German who is so uncourteous to his verbs.
50915    It only remains, therefore, to discover what is wanted by this German who writes upon Bohemian paper, and prefers wearing a mask to showing his face.

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