Sherlock Holmes - The Solitary Cyclist
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Sherlock Holmes - The Solitary Cyclist

B2Upper-intermediateSeptember 18, 202625 min

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My name is Watson, Dr. Watson, and it was my privilege to share the adventures of Sherlock Holmes.

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The details are in my notebooks, if I may refer to them a moment.

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The think out it they are if they sell a matkala it's no use homes we'll never do it now I'm afraid not a fool that I was not too allowed for the early train well you're probably all right nothing's happened

1:19

that the other trap hasn't been stopped for the days are quite true, but what's the truth? Look, the trap's empty! What's its frivolous? Chief is abducted, murdered, what in those what? When his advice led others into danger, my friend Sherlock Holmes was always the first to suffer.

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For regardless of the true cause, he always blamed himself. My name is Watson, Dr. Watson, and it was my privilege to share the adventures of Sherlock Holmes. I will tell you what happened in the case of the solitary cyclist. The details are in my notebooks, if I may refer to them a moment.

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