The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle – C1 الإنجليزية للقراءة

“You are engaged,” said I; “perhaps I interrupt As he reached the corner of Goodge Street, a row you.” broke out between this stranger and a little knot of “Not at all. I am glad to have a friend with whom roughs. One of the latter knocked off the man’s hat, I can discuss my results. The matter is a perfectly on which he raised his stick to defend himself and, trivial one”—he jerked his thumb in the direction of swinging it over his head, smashed the shop winthe old hat—“but there are points in connection with dow behind him. Peterson had rushed forward to it which are not entirely devoid of interest and even protect the stranger from his assailants; but the man, of instruction.” shocked at having broken the window, and seeing an official-looking person in uniform rushing towards I seated myself in his armchair and warmed my him, dropped his goose, took to his heels, and vanhands before his crackling fire, for a sharp frost had ished amid the labyrinth of small streets which lie at set in, and the windows were thick with the ice crysthe back of Tottenham Court Road. The roughs had tals.