The Valley of Fear: Violets

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Title: Violets
Canon Story: The Valley of Fear, part II, Chapters 1-4
Rating: Gen
Summary: Surprise is in the eye of the beholder.

“…a lovely violet growing upon one of those black slag-heaps of the mines would not have seemed more surprising…Now, Watson.”
“What?”
“Would be surprising to find a violet in an odd place? We seem to have them popping up ‘round us at the most alarming rate.”
“Excuse me, Mister Holmes, a young lady to see you, a Miss Violet—“

Comments

[debriswoman]

Figures...

[okapi1895.livejournal.com]

They appear in the oddest places, or, you know, everywhere.

[scfrankles.livejournal.com]

Most amusing ^___^

A very neat pick up on that detail - ACD really had a thing about violets it seems ^_^

[okapi1895.livejournal.com]

I've used the joke before but, hey, this week isn't getting any new jokes.

[thesmallhobbit.livejournal.com]

And surprisingly the violets are all very resilient.

[okapi1895.livejournal.com]

True. And have all kinds of woe heaped upon them.

[gardnerhill.livejournal.com]

And if it isn't the Violets, it's the Mary-Golds.

[okapi1895.livejournal.com]

Hee, hee. I see what you did there.

[laurose8.livejournal.com]

Neatly written, and it might have happened. Quite often.

[okapi1895.livejournal.com]

Thank you! And yes all the evidence points to that, no?

[godsdaisiechain.livejournal.com]

Hopefully she is interesting, but not _too_ interesting. Adorable.

[okapi1895.livejournal.com]

Yeah, the interesting ones get buried alive and fun stuff like that. Thank you.