![]() On the contrary, from day to day I had become more irritable at the sight, and my conscience swelled nightly within me at the thought that I had lacked the courage to protest. ![]() Three times a day for many months I had witnessed this performance, but custom had not reconciled my mind to it. Finally he thrust the sharp point home, pressed down the tiny piston, and sank back into the velvet-lined arm-chair with a long sigh of satisfaction. For some little time his eyes rested thoughtfully upon the sinewy forearm and wrist all dotted and scarred with innumerable puncture-marks. With his long, white, nervous fingers he adjusted the delicate needle, and rolled back his left shirt-cuff. ![]() Sherlock Holmes took his bottle from the corner of the mantel- piece and his hypodermic syringe from its neat morocco case. ![]()
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