Sherlock Holmes And the King of Clubs (2014)
“He lay there for a while, feeling bleary-eyed and content, vaguely aware by the watery light filtering in through a gap in the closed curtains that it was still early.
He allowed himself a jaw-cracking yawn and then snuggled back down, luxuriating in the warmth and comfort of the bed, and reflecting sleepily upon the events which had brought him to this moment.It was remarkable how one’s fortunes could change so swiftly, he thought. So many highs, so many lows. He had returned to medicine a...nd found great joy in the experience. But then he’d discovered the true nature of a woman he had convinced himself he was coming to love, and the knowledge had threatened to thrust him back into the deep despair he had suffered following the passing of his beloved Grace. And yet here he was now, warm and snug in a soft feather bed in quite probably Vienna’s finest hotel, having already met the likes of Sigmund Freud and Harry Houdini.Abruptly he remembered that not everyone was quite as lucky as he.MoreLess
He allowed himself a jaw-cracking yawn and then snuggled back down, luxuriating in the warmth and comfort of the bed, and reflecting sleepily upon the events which had brought him to this moment.It was remarkable how one’s fortunes could change so swiftly, he thought. So many highs, so many lows. He had returned to medicine a...nd found great joy in the experience. But then he’d discovered the true nature of a woman he had convinced himself he was coming to love, and the knowledge had threatened to thrust him back into the deep despair he had suffered following the passing of his beloved Grace. And yet here he was now, warm and snug in a soft feather bed in quite probably Vienna’s finest hotel, having already met the likes of Sigmund Freud and Harry Houdini.Abruptly he remembered that not everyone was quite as lucky as he.MoreLess
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