Left to right: (a) “A drunken-looking groom”. (b) “An amiable and simple-minded Nonconformist clergyman”. (c) “A tall, thin old man, with his jaw resting upon his two fists, and his elbows upon his knees, staring into the fire” [Click on these images for larger pictures.]

Holmes as a stooped, old antiquarian bookseller: I knocked down several books that he was carrying


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