One of Sherlock Holmes’s defects—if, indeed, one may call it a defect—was that he was exceedingly loth to communicate his full plans to any other person until the instant of their fulfilment.
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Yet he was loth to leave the spot, for the northern expanse became lost to view on retreating towards the village only a few hundred yards.
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I was loth to return to the office without the Henderson file.
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If there bee never a Servant-monster i' the Fayre, who can helpe it, he sayes ; nor a nest of Antiques ? Hee is loth to make Nature afraid in his Playes, like those that beget Tales, Tempests, and such like Drolleries, […]
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