? ? ? ? "Not at all. I should wish nothing better than to have some more of such experiences."
? ? ? ? "To-day, for example?"
? ? ? ? "Yes, to-day, if you like."
? ? ? ? "And as far off as Birmingham?"
? ? ? ? "Certainly, if you wish it."
? ? ? ? "And the practice?"
? ? ? ? "I do my neighbour's when he goes. He is always ready to work off the debt."
? ? ? ? "Ha! nothing could be better," said Holmes, leaning back in his chair and looking keenly at me from under his half-closed lids. "I perceive that you have been unwell lately. Summer colds are always a little trying."
? ? ? ? "I was confined to the house by a severe chill for three days last week. I thought, however, that I had cast off every trace of it."
? ? ? ? "So you have. You look remarkably robust."
? ? ? ? "How, then, did you know of it?"
? ? ? ? "My dear fellow, you know my methods."
? ? ? ? "You deduced it, then?"
? ? ? ? "Certainly."
? ? ? ? "And from what?"
? ? ? ? "From your slippers.
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