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“Time will tell. But we have at least set our calling card on this affair, and even if nothing comes of it, no harm has been done.’ Those were his words. But Holmes had no idea of the type of people with whom he was dealing nor the lengths to which they would go to protect themselves. He had entered a veritable miasma of evil, and harm, in the worst possible way, was to come to us all too soon.”

Sherlock HolmesHouse Of SilkPage 128
Book:(The House of Silk: The New Sherlock Holmes Novel) By Anthony Horowitz (Author) Paperback on
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“Only one, I noted, was a little smarter and better fed than the others, his clothes slightly less threadbare, and I wondered what wickedness – pickpocketing, perhaps, or burglary – had furnished him with the means not just to survive but, in his own way, to prosper. He could not have been more than thirteen years old and yet, like all of them, he was already quite grown up. Childhood, after all, is the first precious coin that poverty steals from a child.”

HolmesHouse Of SilkHorowitzPage 54
Book:The House of Silk
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