Dr. Watson
speaker
959 appearances
2 recordings
1 series
first heard Jun 2026
last heard 21 Jul
Dr. Watson’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Ah, of course, he was wrongfully accused of cheating at cards.
He said that you could solve anything.
He said too much.
That you are never beaten."
I have been beaten four times, three times by men, and once by a woman.
But what is that compared with the number of your successes?
It is true that I have been generally successful.
Then you may be so with me.
I beg that you will draw up your chair to the fire, and favour me with some details as to your case.
It is no ordinary one.
None of those which come to me are.
I am the last court of appeal.'
and yet I question, sir, whether, in all your experience, you have ever listened to a more mysterious and inexplicable chain of events than those which have happened in my own family.'
"'You fill me with interest,' said Holmes.
Pray give us the essential facts from the commencement, and I can afterwards question you as to those details which seem to me to be most important.'
The young man pulled his chair up, and pushed his wet feet out toward the blaze.
My name, said he, is John Openshaw, but my own affairs have as far as I can understand little to do with this awful business.
It is a hereditary matter, so in order to give you an idea of the facts, I must go back to the commencement of the affair.
You must know that my grandfather had two sons, my uncle Elias and my father Joseph.
My father had a small factory at Coventry, which he enlarged at the time of the invention of bicycling.
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