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“And I,” said Holmes, “shall see what I can learn from Mrs. Bernstone, and from the Indian servant, who, Mr. Thaddeus tells me, sleeps in the next garret. Then I shall study the great Jones’s methods and listen to his not too delicate sarcasms. ‘ Wir sind gewohnt dass die Menschen verhöhnen was sie nicht verstehen. ’ Goethe is always pithy.”