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I knew that no footstep of mine must appear by any accident in the soft ground about the hut where I laid the body, or between the hut and the house, so I took the shoes off and crammed my feet into them as soon as I was inside the little door. I left my own shoes, with my own jacket and overcoat, near the body, ready to be resumed later.
He no longer insisted that, for health or propriety, she must go home at once; and in some forgotten moment he had involuntarily taken off his overcoat. "I wonder what you think you can teach me," he mused. "I wonder what you know, to start with." "I know life." "A considerable subject." "I've had considerable experience." The clock on the mantel-piece chimed one.
Drawing, a paper from his overcoat, the adjutant began to read. It was a "special order." Even to this Prescott listened only with unhearing ears -at first. Then, though he betrayed no more audible interest than did any of the other men in gray, Dick Prescott found his head swimming. This special order referred to his own case.
He shut up all the books and rammed all his papers into his pocket with convulsive movements, raging inwardly against Haldin. As he was leaving the library a long bony student in a threadbare overcoat joined him, stepping moodily by his side. Razumov answered his mumbled greeting without looking at him at all.
He was flaxen-haired and handsome, in a washed-out negative fashion, with frightened blue eyes, and a clean-shaven face, with a weak, sensitive mouth. His age may have been about twenty-seven, his dress and bearing that of a gentleman. From the pocket of his light summer overcoat protruded the bundle of indorsed papers which proclaimed his profession. "We must use what time we have," said Holmes.
Suddenly he ran after the old lawyer, and rounded the turn of the piazza in time to see him walk stiffly down the shaded street with tremulous dignity. The old gentleman was much the same as usual, a little shakier, perhaps, his tall hat a little more polished, his shiny gray overcoat set a little more snugly at the collar.
The room was filled with people, but not those who had been there before. An instantaneous shiver ran down his back, and he shuddered. He recognized all those people instantly. That tall, stout old man in the overcoat and forage-cap with a cockade—was the police captain, Mihail Makarovitch.
She went rapidly to her boudoir, and found him standing with his overcoat on and his hat in his hand. Although he had been up all the night before and had not had his full measure of rest for a week, he looked as calm as usual, and there was not a hint of fatigue in his face nor of disorder in his dress. "You deserted us last night," he said, smiling.
Such was our fare on Christmas eve; but hunger is the best sauce, and our dishes were plentifully seasoned with it. We arose betimes on Christmas morn, but the grim and deliberate landlady detained us an hour in preparing our coffee. I was in the yard about five minutes, wearing only my cloth overcoat and no gloves, and found the air truly sharp and nipping, but not painfully severe.
But he himself was far from the throes of supplication. He was looking for the forces of his soul; and by the time he reached Dr Drummond's door we may suppose that he had found them. Sarah who let him in, cried, "How wet you are, Mr Finlay!" and took his overcoat to dry in the kitchen.
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