... which he had parted from me. What was this nocturnal THE ADVENTURES OF SHERLOCK HOMES ARTHUR CONANDOYLE The Red-headed League (cont) October 9, 1890. Sherlock Holmes and I surveyed ... address me always to say &apos ;sir& apos; and 'please.'" "All right," said Jones with a stare and a snigger. "Well, would you please, sir, march upstairs, where we ... Mr. "Oh, yes, sir; I have only just left him." "And has your business been attended to in your absence?" "Nothing to complain of, sir. There's never very...
... is likely to weigh very heavily upon my conscience” THE ADVENTURES OF SHERLOCK HOMES ARTHUR CONANDOYLE The Adventure of the Speckled Band (3) Dr. Grimesby Roylott's chamber was...
... a cold, dank grasp, he hurried from the room. THE ADVENTURES OF SHERLOCK HOMES ARTHUR CONANDOYLE The Adventure of the Engineer's Thumb Of all the problems which have been ... restrain me from showing my impatience. "'I beg that you will state your business, sir, ' said I; 'my time is of value.' Heaven forgive me for that last sentence, but ... done." "Ha!" cried I, "if it is anything in the nature of a problem which you desire to see solved, I should strongly recommend you to come to my friend, Mr. Sherlock Holmes,...
... gigantic one, and capable of exercising enormous pressure. THE ADVENTURES OF SHERLOCK HOMES ARTHUR CONANDOYLE The Adventure of the Engineer's Thumb (2) "Well, when I came to think...
... you see them, of course, in the inverse order to the way THE RETURN OF SHERLOCK HOMES ARTHUR CONAY DOYLE The Adventure of the Six Napoleons (3) Holmes spent the evening in rummaging ... trousers, presented himself. "Mr. Josiah Brown, I suppose?" said Holmes. "Yes, sir; and you, no doubt, are Mr. Sherlock Holmes? I had the note which you sent by the express messenger, ... friend bowed and smiled. "Mr. Sandeford, of Reading, I suppose?" said he. "Yes, sir, I fear that I am a little late, but the trains were awkward. You wrote to me about a bust...
... messengers." "He wished to return with me." THE ADVENTURE OF THE DYING DETECTIVE ARTHUR CONANDOYLE (2) I gave Holmes's remarks as a consecutive whole and will not attempt to ... are now doing time." "It was on account of your special knowledge that Mr. Holmes desired to see you. He has a high opinion of you and thought that you were the one man in London ... Below, as I stood whistling for a cab, a man came on me through the fog. "How is Mr. Holmes, sir? " he asked. It was an old acquaintance, Inspector Morton, of Scotland Yard, dressed in...
... at Simpson's would not be out of place." THE ADVENTURE OF THE DYING DETECTIVE ARTHUR CONANDOYLE (3) From the hiding-place into which I had been so swiftly hustled I heard the...
... on the morning of the fourteenth, a gentleman named THE ADVENTURES OF SHERLOCK HOMES ARTHUR CONANDOYLE A CASE OF IDENTITY (cont) Sherlock Holmes sat silent for a few minutes with his ... is from you, in which you made an appointment with me for six o'clock?" "Yes, sir. I am afraid that I am a little late, but I am not quite my own master, you know. I am sorry...
... "To ruin me." "But how?" THE ADVENTURES OF SHERLOCK HOMES ARTHUR CONANDOYLE A Scandal in Bohemia I. To Sherlock Holmes she is always the woman. I have seldom ... with my wooing, and with the dark incidents of the Study in Scarlet, I was seized with a keen desire to see Holmes again, and to know how he was employing his extraordinary powers. His rooms ... upon you to-night, at a quarter to eight o'clock," it said, "a gentleman who desires to consult you upon a matter of the very deepest moment. Your recent services to one of the...
... and individual acts of heroism.As Sir Nigel Loring, in Doyle s The White Company and the post-Boer-War Sir Nigel, was always seeking a worthy opponent, so Doyle continu-ously constructed the ... famine. ()This was a charge to which ArthurConanDoyle would respond quitestrongly when Stead reiterated it in Methods of Barbarism. In his response, Doyle conflated the charge of rape with ... radical journalist W. T. Stead, and a pro-war propa-gandist, popular fiction writer ArthurConan Doyle. Stead and Doyle use the notion of chivalry as a key trope for the discussion of the ethicsof...
... you." "But what is it you wish?" THE ADVENTURES OF SHERLOCK HOMES ARTHUR CONANDOYLE A Scandal in Bohemia II. At three o'clock precisely I was at Baker Street, ... twopence, a glass of half and half, two fills of shag tobacco, and as much information as I could desire about Miss Adler, to say nothing of half a dozen other people in the neighborhood in whom...
... Majesty's business to a more successful conclusion." "On the contrary, my dear sir, " cried the King; "nothing could be more successful. I know that her word is inviolate....