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Quotation from The Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle

“Sir Charles’s nervous system was strained to the breaking point.”

Arthur Conan Doyle (spoken by Dr. James Mortimer)

The Hound of the Baskervilles, Chapter 2 (Project Gutenberg #2852)

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Mortimer tells Holmes how the legend preyed on Sir Charles's mind in the months before his death.

Citation: "Sir Charles’s nervous system was strained to the breaking point." — Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of the Baskervilles, Chapter 2 (Project Gutenberg #2852). (id the-hound-of-the-baskervilles-q3)

Portrait: Cover (Hound of Baskervilles, 1902), Alfred Garth Jones, Public domain.

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