Round-headed,” he muttered. “Brachycephalic, gray-eyed, black-haired, with suggestion of the negroid. Celtic, I presume?
You can understand,′ said Holmes very suavely, ’that I extend to the affairs of my other clients the same secrecy which I promise to you in yours.
In his singular character the dual nature alternately asserted itself, and his extreme exactness and astuteness represented, as I have often thought, the reaction against the poetic and contemplative mood which occasionally predominated in him. The.
But how could you guess what the motive was?
That’s what I should like to be, – envied for my man.
I may be very obtuse, Holmes, but I fail to see what this suggests.
You see, but you do not observe. The distinction is clear. For example, you have frequently seen the steps which lead up from the hall to this room.” “Frequently.” “How often?” “Well, some hundreds of times.” “Then how many are there?” “How many? I don’t know.” “Quite so! You have not observed. And yet you have seen. That is just my point. Now, I know that there are seventeen steps, because I have both seen and observed.
Man or woman?” I asked. “Oh, man, of course. No woman would ever send a reply-paid telegram. She would have come.
Indeed!” I murmured.
It is hard luck on a young fellow to have expensive tastes, great expectations, aristocratic connections but no actual money in his pocket, and no profession by which he may earn any.
The truly inspired priest is the man or woman with the big brain. It.
It was surely well for man that he came late in the order of creation. There.
The conduct of the criminal investigation has been left in the experienced hands of Inspector Lestrade, of Scotland Yard, who is following up the clues with his accustomed energy and sagacity.
You are aware that I have some proficiency in the good old British sport of boxing.
Ah, I am wandering! Strange how the brain controls the brain! What was I saying, Watson?
From the instant that we passed the rise, we could no longer see the vehicle, but we hastened onward at such a pace that my sedentary life began to tell upon me, and I was compelled to fall behind. Holmes, however, was always in training, for he had inexhaustible stores of nervous energy upon which to draw.
I spent the night in town, for I came up yesterday.
But there was something in the ice-cold reasoning of Holmes which made it impossible to shrink from any adventure which he might recommend. One knew that thus, and only thus, could a solution be found. I clasped his hand in silence, and the die was cast.
It is a curious thing that in whaling vessels the Church of England Prayer book is always employed, though there is never a member of that Church among officers or crew. Our men are all Roman Catholics or Presbyterians, the former predominating. Since a ritual is used which is foreign to both, neither can complain that the other is preferred to them, and they listen with all attention and devotion, so that the system has something to recommend it.
I abhor the dull routine of existence. I crave for mental exaltation.