I am not a whole sole admirer of womankind – as you are aware, Watson.
I’m afraid,” said Holmes, smiling, “that all the queen’s horses and all the queen’s men cannot avail in this matter.
Apparently the age of romance was not dead, and there was common ground upon which the wildest imaginings of the novelist could meet the actual scientific investigations of the searcher for truth.
As long as I have my trousers I have a hip-pocket, and as long as I have my hip-pocket I have something in it.
He slipped an emerald snake ring from his finger and held it out upon the palm of his hand. “Your Majesty has something which I should value even more highly,” said Holmes.
An investigator needs facts and not legends or rumours.
So engrossed was he with his occupation that he appeared to have forgotten our presence, for he chattered away to himself under his breath the whole time, keeping up a running fire of exclamations, groans, whistles, and little cries suggestive of encouragement and of hope.
A fortnight went by, during which I frequently found my thoughts turning in her direction and wondering what strange side-alley of human experience this lonely woman had strayed into.
Il n’y a pas des sots si incommodes que ceux qui ont de l’esprit!
No, it’s this poisonous atmosphere.” “I suppose it is pretty thick, now that you mention it.
You reasoned it out beautifully,” I exclaimed in unfeigned admiration. “It is so long a chain, and yet every link rings true.” “It saved me from ennui,” he answered, yawning. “Alas! I already feel it closing in upon me. My life is spent in one long effort to escape from the commonplaces of existence. These little problems help me to do so.
I am sure, Mr Holmes, that we are very much indebted to you for having cleared the matter up. I wish I knew how you reach your results.’ ‘I reached this one,’ said my friend, ’by sitting upon five pillows and consuming an ounce of shag.
She is swift in making up her mind and fearless in carrying out her resolutions.
Your life is not your own,” he said. “Keep your hands off it.” “What use is it to anyone?” “How can you tell? The example of patient suffering is in itself the most precious of all lessons to an impatient world.” The.
Stand with me here upon the terrace, for it may be the last quiet talk that we shall ever have.
Standing in the doorway and glancing round me, I had a general impression of extraordinary comfort and elegance combined with an atmosphere of masculine virility.
Folk who were in grief came to my wife like birds to a light-house.
When the commissionaire had gone, Holmes took up the stone and held it against the light. “It’s a bonny thing,” said he. “Just see how it glints and sparkles. Of course it is a nucleus and focus of crime. Every good stone is. They are the devil’s pet baits. In the larger and older jewels every facet may stand for a bloody deed.
To Sherlock Holmes she is always the woman. I have seldom heard him mention her under any other name. In his eyes she eclipses and.
I’m not sure about whether I shall go. I am the most incurably lazy devil that ever stood in shoe leather.