A Study in Scarlet by Arthur Conan Doyle (short novels to read txt) 📕

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[ “make much of...”: Other editions complete this sentence with an “it.” But there is a gap in the text at this point, and, given the context, it may have actually been an interjection, a dash. The gap is just the right size for the characters “it.” and the start of a new sentence, or for a “——“]

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[ “tho cushion”: “tho” should be “the”]

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[ “shoving”: later editions have “showing”. The original is clearly superior.]

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[ “stared about...”: illustration, with the caption: “One of them seized the little girl, and hoisted her upon his shoulder.”]

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[ “upon the”: illustration, with the caption: “As he watched it he saw it writhe along the ground.”]

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[ “FORMERLY...”: F,S,L,C in caps, other letters in this line in small caps.]

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[ “ancles”: ankles.]

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[ “asked,”: should be “asked.”]

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[ “poisions”: should be “poisons”]

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[ “...fancy”: should be “I fancy”. There is a gap in the text.]

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[ “snackled”: “shackled” in later texts.]

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[ Heber C. Kemball, in one of his sermons, alludes to his hundred wives under this endearing epithet.]