The Disappearance of Lady Frances Carfax - a Sherlock Holmes Short Story Quotes

“[O]n general principles it is best that I should not leave the country. Scotland Yard feels lonely without me, and it causes an unhealthy excitement among the criminal classes.”
― Arthur Conan Doyle, The Disappearance of Lady Frances Carfax - a Sherlock Holmes Short Story

“One of the most dangerous classes in the world," said he, "is the drifting and friendless woman. She is the most harmless and often the most useful of mortals, but she is the inevitable inciter of crime in others. She is helpless. She is migratory. She has sufficient means to take her from country to country and from hotel to hotel. She is lost, as often as not, in a maze of obscure pensions and boardinghouses. She is a stray chicken in a world of foxes. When she is gobbled up she is hardly missed.”
― Arthur Conan Doyle, The Disappearance of Lady Frances Carfax

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― Arthur Conan Doyle, The Disappearance of Lady Frances Carfax