The Birth of a Friendship

From A Study in Scarlet by Arthur Conan Doyle
The novel's emotional spine is the formation of literature's most famous partnership, beginning with the practical decision to share lodgings.
Part I, Chapter 1

Their mutual confession of vices before agreeing to share rooms: 'I keep a bull pup... I object to rows because my nerves are shaken, and I get up at all sorts of ungodly hours, and I am extremely lazy.'

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Part I, Chapter 2

Watson's diary entries cataloguing Holmes—the basis of the entire chronicling enterprise to follow.

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