Артур Конан Дойл - Пять апельсиновых зёрнышек. Книга для чтения на английском языке

He was a singular man, fierce and quick-tempered, very foul-mouthed when he was angry, and of a most retiring disposition. During all the years that he lived at Horsham, I doubt if ever he set foot in the town.

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He had a garden and two or three fields round his house, and there he would take his exercise, though very often for weeks on end he would never leave his room.

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He drank a great deal of brandy and smoked very heavily, but he would see no society and did not want any friends, not even his own brother.

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“He didn’t mind me; in fact, he took a fancy to me, for at the time when he saw me first I was a youngster of twelve or so. This would be in the year 1878, after he had been eight or nine years in England.

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He begged my father to let me live with him and he was very kind to me in his way.

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When he was sober he used to be fond of playing backgammon and draughts with me, and he would make me his representative both with the servants and with the tradespeople, so that by the time that I was sixteen I was quite master of the house.

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