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    1. brute took up his position on the wash-basin stand; and every attempt to dislodge him brought to the ground some fragile articles of furniture — glasses, basins, and jugs —

      I felt super anxious after seeing this for a while, because he kept throwing away some useless things that were of no use.

    2. He is fond of enigmas, of conundrums, of hieroglyphics; exhibiting in his solutions of each{b} a degree of acumen{c} which appears to the ordinary apprehension præternatural.

      ok then that's why he can be a detective, I even have no idea about the wording here...literally looking up for the words all the time...

    3. It is the ancestor of a vast number of works which have given much harmless pleasure to all sorts and conditions of men.

      What works, for example?