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“I am accustomed to have mystery at one end of my cases, but to have it at both ends is too confusing.
wonder-woman
“The strongest of all holds where a woman is concerned—the hold of love.
She absolutely accepts his version
“A complex mind,” said Holmes. “All great criminals have that.
Woman’s heart and mind are insoluble puzzles to the male.
He is an excellent antagonist, cool as ice, silky voiced and soothing as one of your fashionable consultants, and poisonous as a cobra.
“A purring cat who thinks he sees prospective mice.
it is really funny to see you trying to play a hand with no cards in it.
this is the sort of man who says rather less than he means.”
“No fence wants stuff of that sort that you can neither melt nor sell.”
She is beautiful, but with the ethereal other-world beauty of some fanatic whose thoughts are set on high.
It is only by my father’s request that I see you at all, and I warn you in advance that anything you can say could not possibly have the slightest effect upon my mind.’
in any case I wish you to understand once for all that I love him and that he loves me, and that the opinion of all the world is no more to me than the twitter of those birds outside the window.
If ever you saw flame and ice face to face, it was those two women.
He pushed to an extreme the axiom that the only safe plotter was he who plotted alone.
wisdom of obedience.
It is said that the barrister who crams up a case with such care that he can examine an expert witness upon the Monday has forgotten all his forced knowledge before the Saturday.
The features which I had admired a few minutes before were now like some beautiful painting over which the artist has passed a wet and foul sponge.
but when an object is good and a client is sufficiently illustrious, even the rigid British law becomes human and elastic.
I was alone.
“I see no more than you, but I have trained myself to notice what I see.
and he had the fighting blood in him,
the sort of friendship which can only be made when one lives the same life and shares the same joys and sorrows.
There was a butler, old Ralph, who seemed about the same age as the house,
my familiar method of logical analysis, to narrow down the possible solutions.
I do not waste words or disclose my thoughts while a case is actually under consideration.
As to you, sir,” turning upon me, “I extend the same warning to you.
“It is my business to know things. That is my trade.”
I hoped against hope,
