The Double-Barrelled Detective Quotes

“How blind and unreasoning and arbitrary are some of the laws of nature - the most of them, in fact!”
― Mark Twain, The Double-Barrelled Detective: Dual Language Reader

“What further does it tell us? This: that the assassin was left-handed. How do I know this? I should not be able to explain to you, gentlemen, how I know it, the signs being so subtle that only long experience and deep study can enable one to detect them. But the signs are here, and they are reinforced by a fact which you must have often noticed in the great detective narratives—that all assassins are left-handed." "By”
― Mark Twain, The Double-Barrelled Detective

“No real gentleman will tell the naked truth
in the presence of ladies.”
― Mark Twain, The Double-Barrelled Detective

“God forgive us, mother, we are hunting the wrong man! I have not slept any all night. I am now awaiting, at dawn,”
― Mark Twain, The Double-Barrelled Detective

“Even I feel a drawing toward him—the paternal blood in me making its claim. How blind and unreasoning and arbitrary are some of the laws of nature—the most of them, in fact!”
― Mark Twain, The Double-Barrelled Detective

“She said, "The future is secure—I can wait, and enjoy the waiting." The most of her lost interests revived. She took up music again, and languages, drawing, painting, and the other long-discarded delights of her maidenhood. She was happy once more, and felt again the zest of life.”
― Mark Twain, The Double-Barrelled Detective

“In this world one must be like everybody else if he doesn't want to provoke scorn or envy or jealousy.”
― Mark Twain, The Double-Barrelled Detective

“the lawful slave of a scion of slaves,”
― Mark Twain, The Double-Barrelled Detective