The Stark Munro Letters

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Артур Конан Дойл. The Stark Munro Letters

I. HOME. 30th March, 1881

II. HOME, 10th April, 1881

III. HOME, 15th October, 1881

IV. HOME, 1st December, 1881

V. MERTON ON THE MOORS, 5th March, 1882

VI. THE PARADE, BRADFIELD, 7th March, 1882

VII. THE PARADE, BRADFIELD, 9th March, 1882

VIII. THE PARADE, BRADFIELD, 6th April, 1882

IX. THE PARADE, BRADFIELD, 23rd April, 1882

X. CADOGAN TERRACE, BIRCHESPOOL, 21st May, 1882

XI. OAKLEY VILLAS, BIRCHESPOOL, 29th May, 1882

XII. OAKLEY VILLAS, BIRCHESPOOL, 5th June, 1882

XIII. OAKLEY VILLAS, BIRCHESPOOL, 12th June, 1882

XIV. OAKLEY VILLAS, BIRCHESPOOL, 15th January, 1883

XV. OAKLEY VILLAS, BIRCHESPOOL, 3rd August, 1883

XVI. OAKLEY VILLAS, BIRCHESPOOL, 4th November, 1884

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I have missed you very much since your return to America, my dear Bertie, for you are the one man upon this earth to whom I have ever been able to unreservedly open my whole mind. I don’t know why it is; for, now that I come to think of it, I have never enjoyed very much of your confidence in return. But that may be my fault. Perhaps you don’t find me sympathetic, even though I have every wish to be. I can only say that I find you intensely so, and perhaps I presume too much upon the fact. But no, every instinct in my nature tells me that I don’t bore you by my confidences.

Can you remember Cullingworth at the University? You never were in the athletic set, and so it is possible that you don’t. Anyway, I’ll take it for granted that you don’t, and explain it all from the beginning. I’m sure that you would know his photograph, however, for the reason that he was the ugliest and queerest-looking man of our year.

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His failure did not seem to weigh very heavily on his mind, for in a few minutes he was shouting away as lustily as ever. Whiskey and hot water were brought in, that we might all drink luck to the second venture.

And this whiskey led us to what might have been a troublesome affair. Cullingworth, who had drunk off a couple of glasses, waited until his wife had left the room, and then began to talk of the difficulty of getting any exercise now that he had to wait in all day in the hope of patients. This led us round to the ways in which a man might take his exercise indoors, and that to boxing. Cullingworth took a couple of pairs of gloves out of a cupboard, and proposed that we should fight a round or two then and there.

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