A Study in Scarlet Sherlock Holmes #1

by Arthur Conan Doyle

as free as air

There are vague memories in our souls of those misty centuries when the world was in its childhood."

There is a mystery about this which stimulates the imagination; where there is no imagination there is no horror.

"The plot thickens."

instant death would be better than the suspense which shook his nerves and chilled his heart.