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161 " Some times you have to look hard at something to see its value "
― Arthur Conan Doyle , The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (Sherlock Holmes, #3)
162 " day the wind had screamed and the rain had beaten against the windows, so that even here in the heart of great, hand-made London we were forced to raise our minds for the instant from the routine of life and to recognise the presence of those great elemental forces which shriek at mankind through the bars of his civilisation, like untamed beasts in a cage. As evening drew in, the storm grew higher and louder, and the wind cried and sobbed like a child in the chimney. Sherlock Holmes sat moodily at one side of the fireplace cross-indexing his records of crime, "
163 " Last week he hurled the local blacksmith over a parapet into a stream, and it was only by paying over all the money which I could gather together that I was able to avert another public "
164 " Folk who were in grief came to my wife like birds to a light-house. "
165 " When the commissionaire had gone, Holmes took up the stone and held it against the light. “It’s a bonny thing,” said he. “Just see how it glints and sparkles. Of course it is a nucleus and focus of crime. Every good stone is. They are the devil’s pet baits. In the larger and older jewels every facet may stand for a bloody deed. "
166 " The pressure of public opinion can do in the town what the law cannot accomplish. "
167 " mystery,” I remarked. “What do you imagine that it means?” “I have no data yet. It is a capital "
168 " Tottenham Court Road, and he left a tidy business "
169 " To Sherlock Holmes she is always the woman. I have seldom heard him mention her under any other name. In his eyes she eclipses and "
170 " landau with their steaming horses were in front of the door when I arrived. I paid the man and hurried into the church. There was not a soul there save the two whom I had followed and a surpliced clergyman, who seemed to be expostulating with them. They were all three standing in a knot in front of the altar. I lounged up the side aisle like any other idler who has dropped into a church. Suddenly, to my surprise, the three at the altar faced round to me, and Godfrey Norton "
171 " who loathed every form of society with his whole Bohemian soul, remained in our lodgings in Baker Street, buried among his old books, and alternating from week to week between cocaine and ambition, the drowsiness of the drug, and the fierce energy of his own keen nature. "
172 " Good-night, Mister Sherlock Holmes. "
173 " said no more but, calling for my cashier, I ordered him to pay over fifty £1,000 notes. When I was alone once more, however, with the precious case lying upon the table in front of me, I could not but think with some misgivings of the immense responsibility which it entailed "
174 " As to the photograph, your client may rest in peace. I love and am loved by a better man than he. "
175 " tearing "
176 " that the full facts have never been revealed to the general "
177 " society with his whole Bohemian soul, remained in our lodgings in Baker Street, buried among his old books, and alternating from "
178 " Hotel Cosmopolitan Jewel Robbery. John Horner, 26, plumber, was brought up upon the charge of having upon the 22nd inst., "
179 " address? "