She stood framed in the doorway, tall, mystic, silent, with strange, wistful face and deep soul shining in her dark questioning eyes. Nigel kissed the hand that she held out, and all his faith in woman and his reverence came back to him as he looked at her.


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His ignorance was as remarkable as his knowledge.
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Circumstantial evidence is occasionally very convincing, as when you find a trout in the milk, to qu...
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As Cuvier could correctly describe a whole animal by the contemplation of a single bone, so the obse...
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Women are naturally secretive, and they like to do their own secreting.
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You know my method. It is founded upon the observance of trifles.
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What a lovely thing a rose is!"

He walked past the couch to the open window and held up t...
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From a drop of water a logician could infer the possibility of an Atlantic or a Niagara without havi...
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A man should keep his little brain attic stocked with all the furniture that he is likely to use, an...
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I consider that a man's brain originally is like a little empty attic, and you have to stock it ...
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When a man does a queer thing, or two queer things, there may be a meaning to it, but when everythin...
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Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself; but talent instantly recognizes genius.
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It has always seemed to me that so long as you produce your dramatic effect, accuracy of detail matt...
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I have seen too much not to know that the impression of a woman may be more valuable than the conclu...
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From the first day I met her, she was the only woman to me. Every day of that voyage I loved her mor...
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Never trust to general impressions, my boy, but concentrate yourself upon details.
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I am a brain, Watson. The rest of me is a mere appendix.
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You have a grand gift for silence, Watson. It makes you quite invaluable as a companion.
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The ideal reasoner, he remarked, would, when he had once been shown a single fact in all its bearing...
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How often have I said to you that when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however...
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It is an old maxim of mine that when you have excluded the impossible, whatever remains, however imp...
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There are many men in London, you know, who, some from shyness, some from misanthropy, have no wish ...
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I felt Holmes's hand steal into mine and give me a reassuring shake.

- Watson
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The Times is a paper which is seldom found in any hands but those of the highly educated.
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It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to sui...
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My name is Sherlock Holmes. It is my business to know what other people do not know.
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There is no scent so pleasant to my nostrils as that faint, subtle reek which comes from an ancient ...
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Well, Watson, what do you make of it?'

Holmes was sitting with his back to me, and I had ...
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A study in scarlet, eh? Why shouldn't we use a little art jargon? There's the scarlet thread of murd...
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It is a great thing to start life with a small number of really good books which are your very own. ...
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Everything I have to say has already crossed your mind."
"Then possibly my answer has crossed y...
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A man always finds it hard to realize that he may have finally lost a woman's love, however badly he...
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There are always some lunatics about. It would be a dull world without them.
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How sweet the morning air is! See how that one little cloud floats like a pink feather from some gig...
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Is there any point to which you would wish to draw my attention?'

'To the curious incide...
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Problems may be solved in the study which have baffled all those who have sought a solution by the a...
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Violence does, in truth, recoil upon the violent, and the schemer falls into the pit which he digs f...
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I had neither kith nor kin in England, and was therefore as free as air -- or as free as an income o...
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Do you know, Watson," said he, "that it is one of the curses of a mind with a turn like mine that I ...
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When people bury treasure nowadays they do it in the Post-Office bank.
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The man might have died in a fit; but then the jewels are missing," mused the Inspector, "Ha! I have...
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My mind is like a racing engine, tearing itself to pieces because it is not connected up with the wo...
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I do not know whether it came from his own innate depravity or from the promptings of his master, bu...
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Do you remember what Darwin says about music? He claims that the power of producing and appreciating...
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Era peor la herida... eran peor muchas heridas... que saber la profundidad de lealtad y amor que yac...
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When will you be pleased to dine, Mr. Holmes?' Mrs. Hudson asked. 'Seven-thirty, the day after to-mo...
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A fortune for one man that was more than he needed should not be built on ten thousand ruined men wh...
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. . . and meanwhile take my assurance that the clouds are lifting and that I have every hope that th...
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When one tries to rise above Nature one is liable to fall below it.
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She entered with ungainly struggle like some huge awkward chicken, torn, squawking, out of its coop.
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We give you best, Holmes. I believe you are the devil himself.
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One likes to think that there is some fantastic limbo for the children of imagination, some strange,...
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No ghosts need apply.

- Sherlock Holmes: The Adventure of the Sussex Vampire
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You are right," he cried with an immense sigh of relief. "It is quite superficial." His face set lik...
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It was worth a wound--it was worth many wounds--to know the depth of loyalty and love which lay behi...
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It is all in the way of professional experience.
- Sherlock Holmes
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All right, Watson. Don’t look so scared,” he muttered in a very weak voice. “It’s not as bad...
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There is a danger there - a very real danger to humanity. Consider, Watson, that the material, the s...
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I am a brain, Watson. The rest of me is a mere appendix
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For the one and only time I caught a glimpse of a great heart as well as of a great brain.
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The ways of fate are indeed hard to understand. If there is not some compensation hereafter, then th...
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Every man finds his limitations, Mr. Holmes, but at least it cures us of the weakness of self-satisf...
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There is a soul-jealousy that can be as frantic as any body-jealousy.
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