sir arthur conan doyle quotes boer war

Ngày tải lên: 19/02/2014, 06:20

Ngày tải lên: 29/08/2013, 17:10

... 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 ... "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 that is in my possession." ... 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,...

Ngày tải lên: 18/10/2013, 01:15

... messengers." "He wished to return with me." THE ADVENTURE OF THE DYING DETECTIVE ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE (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...

Ngày tải lên: 24/10/2013, 20:15

... at Simpson's would not be out of place." THE ADVENTURE OF THE DYING DETECTIVE ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE (3) From the hiding-place into which I had been so swiftly hustled I heard the ... something to ease my pain." "Painful, is it? Yes, the coolies used to do some squealing towards the end. Takes you as cramp, I fancy." "Yes, yes; it is cramp." "Well,...

Ngày tải lên: 24/10/2013, 20:15

... on the morning of the fourteenth, a gentleman named THE ADVENTURES OF SHERLOCK HOMES ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE A CASE OF IDENTITY (cont) Sherlock Holmes sat silent for a few minutes with his ... meetings, and an engagement, which would finally secure the girl's affections from turning towards anyone else. But the deception could not be kept up forever. These that may hang from a boot-lace. ... 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...

Ngày tải lên: 29/10/2013, 02:15

... "To ruin me." "But how?" THE ADVENTURES OF SHERLOCK HOMES ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE 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 ... it?" "Why, indeed?" murmured Holmes. "Your Majesty had not spoken before I was aware that I was addressing Wilhelm Gottsreich Sigismond von Ormstein, Grand Duke of Cassel-Felstein,...

Ngày tải lên: 29/10/2013, 02:15

... Barbarism and Arthur Conan Doyle s reply, The War in South Africa, Its Cause and Conduct, battled for the hearts and minds of the British in the latter stages of the Boer War. While Stead’s anti -war propaganda, ... 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 Boers in his military ... women on the battle front – Boer women. For the anti -war propagandist Stead, Boer women were rape victims and potential rape victims. For Doyle, who supported the war, Boer women were, significantly,...

Ngày tải lên: 01/11/2013, 08:20

... you." "But what is it you wish?" THE ADVENTURES OF SHERLOCK HOMES ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE A Scandal in Bohemia II. At three o'clock precisely I was at Baker Street, ... silence for some few minutes until we had turned down one of the quiet streets which lead towards the Edgeware Road. "You did it very nicely, Doctor," he remarked. "Nothing could ... to the door of Briony Lodge. As it pulled up, one of the loafing men at the corner dashed forward to open the door in the hope of earning a copper, but was elbowed away by another loafer,...

Ngày tải lên: 08/11/2013, 02:15

... 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. ... Majesty say so." "I am immensely indebted to you. Pray tell me in what way I can reward you. This ring " He slipped an emerald snake ring from his finger and held it out upon ... not a suspicion. But then, when I found how I had betrayed myself, I began to think. I had been warned against you months ago. I had been told that if the King employed an agent it would certainly...

Ngày tải lên: 08/11/2013, 02:15