The Hound of the Baskervilles

by Arthur Conan Doyle

It may be that you are not yourself luminous, but you are a conductor of light. Some people without possessing genius have a remarkable power of stimulating it.

“There go two of my threads, Watson. There is nothing more stimulating than a case where everything goes against you.

“I will not bias your mind by suggesting theories or suspicions, Watson,”

To all the world he was the man of violence, half animal and half demon; but to her he always remained the little wilful boy of her own girlhood, the child who had clung to her hand. Evil indeed is the man who has not one woman to mourn him.

Intense mental concentration has a curious way of blotting out what has passed.

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.