
206 – A Study in Scarlet
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Is There a Better Place to Live Than London?
I had neither kith nor kin in england, and was therefore as free as air. Under such circumstances, i naturally gravitated to london,. That great cesspool into which all the loungers and idlers of the empire are irresistibly drained. There i stay for some time at a private hotel in the strand, leading a comfortless, meaningless existence. Spending such money as i have considerably more freely than i aw so alarming did the state of my finances become that i soon realized that i must either leave the metropolis and rusticate somewhere in the country or make a complete alteration in my style of living. I dispatched accordingly in the tropia orente, and landed
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