The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

by Arthur Conan Doyle

A Frenchman or Russian could not have written that. It is the German who is so uncourteous to his verbs.

“Many men have been hanged on far slighter evidence,” I remarked. “So they have. And many men have been wrongfully hanged.”

“It is no ordinary one.” “None of those which come to me are. I am the last court of appeal.”