The Hound of the Baskervilles

by Arthur Conan Doyle

There is nothing more stimulating than a case where everything goes against you.

I truly wish this were true for me

Evil indeed is the man who has not one woman to mourn him.

Never in the delirious dream of a disordered brain could anything more savage, more appalling, more hellish be conceived than that dark form and savage face which broke upon us out of the wall of fog.

There can be no doubt that Stapleton exercised an influence over her which may have been love or may have been fear, or very possibly both, since they are by no means incompatible emotions.