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[Sherlock Homes] The focus of a step

Title: L 'accent is a step
Fandom: Sherlock Holmes (in theory books)
Characters: Holmes, Gladstone (yes, it's a character, beautiful fat slobbering in my heart! )
Prompt: "Heaven is not far away" by Emily Dickinson @ holmes_ita
Rating: G
Word Count: 500 (with the quotation)
Summary: Holmes, of course, can know every turn that climbs on the stairs of the apartment at 221B Baker Street.
Notes: POV of Sherlock Holmes. Mrs. Hudson is the owner and lessee of the apartment in Baker Street. Gladstone is the bulldog of Watson. Quote from "The Hound of the Baskervilles." Possible errors compared to the canon.

Paradise is not far from the next room

If in that room waiting for a friend or ruin
Happiness
What strength there is in the soul that I can stand

The emphasis a step that it approaches a door that opens
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("Heaven is not far away" by Emily Dickinson)

Among the many skills that an expert in criminology must be able to exploit, it is undoubtedly an important recognition of noise: the source, origin, propagation, and so on. In the long years of my stay in Baker Street I learned to distinguish the pitch of a friend than a customer. To hear a step on the stairs has always aroused in me an expectation filled with drama: the fate becomes creaking under the weight of the step of unknown, they bring joy or tragedy in our lives, but we can not know in advance.
But when it was already known steps, the fun was in understanding what knowledge climbed the stairs to my living room. Among many, one in particular, was able to capture more of my undivided attention, even when it was the third or fourth time the same day that I heard: the thud of a sole of good quality, robust, suitable for long walks in the city , accompanied by the tapping of a walking stick, and no longer used in excellent condition, made me guess, from the very first step, the arrival of my friend Dr. Watson.
Even Gladstone, who certainly could not be considered a dog of any use for a criminologist, he raised his heavy head from the carpet and uncomfortable your body fat and slow to the door, where he patiently waits for the doctor to cross the door. The shoe
climbed the first step, then stopped for a moment or two (the due greetings to Mrs. Hudson), and then continued his ascent. Because of the old war wound to the right stride was slightly deeper, producing a low sound, serious, where the left, just slightly more, delivered a half-tone higher, follow the tip of the stick that vaguely resembles a small gong. Was created, as a kind of short and grotesque concert: the shoes, to the accompaniment of the club, played the worn wooden stairs. Military march and jovial at the same time.
Watson saliva with a quick pace and secure the road very well known, and I knew if brought good and bad news as increased or slowed down the pace at the quintultimo step. There, for reasons I never fully explained, the good doctor changed the pace, as if only the height of the step quintultimo had made his decision: choosing the best weapon, smile or severe reproach, addressed his capricious roommate, that would be me. The last step
paused a brief second before the door, Gladstone already mentioned a slight wagging of its tail twisted non-existent, and I grabbed the first object at hand, the Times or a pipe, it does not matter, not to leave think that I was there waiting for her entrance.



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