A Study in Scarlet

by Arthur Conan Doyle

sere and yellow.

Trichinopoly,"

decamping?

had already observed that he was as sensitive to flattery on the score of his art as any girl could be of her beauty.

study in scarlet, eh? Why shouldn't we use a little art jargon. There's the scarlet thread of murder running through the colourless skein of life, and our duty is to unravel it, and isolate it, and expose every inch of it.

remarked. "One's ideas must be as broad as Nature if they are to interpret Nature,"

despotism

paroxysm

antecedents.

sententiously.

privations

indefatigable

halcyon

omniscient

omnipotent,

remonstrated

billets

jocosely.