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aminnj
09-05-2011, 03:01 PM
hi everybody,
I've joined recently mostly to find friends to help me in reading English literature.

"A Scandal in Bohemia" by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle is one I am reading now. I would be thankful if someone could rephrase or translate the following sentence to a simple one:

"...and that you had a particularly malignant boot-slitting specimen of the London slavey."

Sherlock Holmes is describing how he deduced that Watson "...intended to go into harness." and indeed I don't understand the meaning of harness or to go to harness.

thanks,