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My uncle Elias ( extract from A. Conan Doyle )

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1. 'My uncle Elias did not wantdoubtemigratedfoughthad madelaidremainedsmokedtookwaswas reportedwould never leavewould seewould take I don't know to America when he was a young man,

2. and became a planter in Florida, where he did not wantdoubtemigratedfoughthad madelaidremainedsmokedtookwaswas reportedwould never leavewould seewould take I don't know to have done very well.

3. At the time of the war he did not wantdoubtemigratedfoughthad madelaidremainedsmokedtookwaswas reportedwould never leavewould seewould take I don't know in Jackson's army, and afterwards under Hood,

4. where he rose to be a colonel. When Lee did not wantdoubtemigratedfoughthad madelaidremainedsmokedtookwaswas reportedwould never leavewould seewould take I don't know down his arms my uncle returned

5. to his plantation, where he did not wantdoubtemigratedfoughthad madelaidremainedsmokedtookwaswas reportedwould never leavewould seewould take I don't know for three or four years.

6. About 1869 or 1870 he came back to Europe, and did not wantdoubtemigratedfoughthad madelaidremainedsmokedtookwaswas reportedwould never leavewould seewould take I don't know a small estate in Sussex, near Horsham.

7. He did not wantdoubtemigratedfoughthad madelaidremainedsmokedtookwaswas reportedwould never leavewould seewould take I don't know a very considerable fortune in the States (...). He was a singular man,

8. fierce and quick-tempered, very foul-mouthed when he did not wantdoubtemigratedfoughthad madelaidremainedsmokedtookwaswas reportedwould never leavewould seewould take I don't know angry (...).

9. During all the years that he lived at Horsham, I did not wantdoubtemigratedfoughthad madelaidremainedsmokedtookwaswas reportedwould never leavewould seewould take I don't know if he ever set a foot in the town.

10. He had a garden and two or three fields round his house, and there he did not wantdoubtemigratedfoughthad madelaidremainedsmokedtookwaswas reportedwould never leavewould seewould take I don't know

11. his exercise, though very often for weeks on end he did not wantdoubtemigratedfoughthad madelaidremainedsmokedtookwaswas reportedwould never leavewould seewould take I don't know his room.

12. He drank a great deal of brandy and did not wantdoubtemigratedfoughthad madelaidremainedsmokedtookwaswas reportedwould never leavewould seewould take I don't know heavily,

13. but he did not wantdoubtemigratedfoughthad madelaidremainedsmokedtookwaswas reportedwould never leavewould seewould take I don't know no society,

14. and he did not wantdoubtemigratedfoughthad madelaidremainedsmokedtookwaswas reportedwould never leavewould seewould take I don't know any friends, not even his own brother.'