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“To the curious incident of the dog in the night-time.” “The dog did nothing in the night-time.” “That was the curious incident,” remarked Sherlock Holmes.
I should prefer that you do not mention my name at all in connection with the case, as I choose to be only associated with those crimes which present some difficulty in their solution.
“Watson,” said he, “if it should ever strike you that I am getting a little overconfident in my powers, or giving less pains to a case than it deserves, kindly whisper ‘Norbury’ in my ear, and I shall be infinitely obliged to you.”
“There had been a daughter, I heard, but she had died of diphtheria while on a visit to Birmingham.
Yet he had a reputation for kindness and charity on the countryside, and was noted for the leniency of his sentences from the bench.
What?
to her destruction in N. Lat. 15 degrees 20’. W. Long. 25 degrees 14’,
one of the most untidy men that ever drove a fellow-lodger to distraction.
man who keeps his cigars in the coal-scuttle, his tobacco in the toe end of a Persian slipper, and his unanswered correspondence transfixed by a jack-knife into the very centre of his wooden mantelpiece,
“Yes, my boy, these were all done prematurely before my biographer had come to glorify me.”
“I don’t think you need alarm yourself,” said I. “I have usually found that there was method in his madness.”
but one day, to my very great surprise, he began to talk to me about his brother.
“Because my brother Mycroft possesses it in a larger degree than I do.”
What a lovely thing a rose is!” He walked past the couch to the open window and held up the drooping stalk of a moss-rose, looking down at the dainty blend of crimson and green. It was a new phase of his character to me, for I had never before seen him show any keen interest in natural objects.
“There is nothing in which deduction is so necessary as in religion,”
Colonel James Moriarty
First appearance
“He is the Napoleon of crime, Watson. He is the organizer of half that is evil and of nearly all that is undetected in this great city. He is a genius, a philosopher, an abstract thinker. He has a brain of the first order. He sits motionless, like a spider in the centre of its web, but that web has a thousand radiations, and he knows well every quiver of each of them.
