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.

if someone told me this id never recover

“Do you not find it interesting?” “To a collector of fairy tales.”

“Caught cold, Watson?” said he. “No, it’s this poisonous atmosphere.” “I suppose it is pretty thick, now that you mention it.” “Thick! It is intolerable.”

“The world is full of obvious things which nobody by any chance ever observes.

“What business?” asked Sir Henry sharply. “It seems to me that all you gentlemen know a great deal more than I do about my own affairs.”

poor lad

It is the scientific use of the imagination, but we have always some material basis on which to start our speculation.

“Not for the world, my dear Watson. I am perfectly satisfied with your company if you will tolerate mine.

aww

But we hold several threads in our hands, and the odds are that one or other of them guides us to the truth.

Holmes laid his hand upon my arm. “If my friend would undertake it there is no man who is better worth having at your side when you are in a tight place. No one can say so more confidently than I.”

this almost makes up for sherlock essentially calling watson a dumbass at the beginning of this story

Apart from the law he seems a kindly, good-natured person,

"apart from his 7 lawsuits he's a pretty great guy"

I have not lived for years with Sherlock Holmes for nothing.

“The surprise was not all on one side, I assure you. I had no idea that you had found my occasional retreat,

"my ocassional retreat" 💀

I have not heard him laugh often, and it has always boded ill to somebody.

sherlocks so real for that

One of Sherlock Holmes’s defects—if, indeed, one may call it a defect—was that he was exceedingly loath to communicate his full plans to any other person until the instant of their fulfilment. Partly it came no doubt from his own masterful nature, which loved to dominate and surprise those who were around him. Partly also from his professional caution, which urged him never to take any chances.