Sherlock Holmes - Character Illustrations
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“Perhaps I have rather invited this persecution, since I have often had occasion to point out to him how superficial are his own accounts and to accuse him of pandering to popular taste instead of confining himself rigidly to facts and figures.”
“Speaking of my old friend and biographer, I would take this opportunity to remark that if I burden myself with a companion in my various little inquiries it is not done out of sentiment or caprice, but it is that Watson has some remarkable characteristics of his own to which in his modesty he has given small attention amid his exaggerated estimates of my own performances.”
“The good Watson had at that time deserted me for a wife, the only selfish action which I can recall in our association.”
“It is my habit to sit with my back to the window and to place my visitors in the opposite chair, where the light falls full upon them.”
“I have found it wise to impress clients with a sense of power.”
“I do not waste words or disclose my thoughts while a case is actually under consideration.”
“I foresaw this situation,” I explained, “and I have brought with me a friend whose discretion may absolutely be trusted. I was able once to do him a professional service, and he is ready to advise as a friend rather than as a specialist.”
“And here it is that I miss my Watson. By cunning questions and ejaculations of wonder he could elevate my simple art, which is but systematized common sense, into a prodigy.”
“A single word showed you, sir, that your secret was discovered, and if I wrote rather than said it, it was to prove to you that my discretion was to be trusted.” (Sherlock Holmes)
“The good Watson had at that time deserted me for a wife, the only selfish action which I can recall in our association.”
“It is my habit to sit with my back to the window and to place my visitors in the opposite chair, where the light falls full upon them.”
“I have found it wise to impress clients with a sense of power.”
“I do not waste words or disclose my thoughts while a case is actually under consideration.”
“I foresaw this situation,” I explained, “and I have brought with me a friend whose discretion may absolutely be trusted. I was able once to do him a professional service, and he is ready to advise as a friend rather than as a specialist.”
“And here it is that I miss my Watson. By cunning questions and ejaculations of wonder he could elevate my simple art, which is but systematized common sense, into a prodigy.”
“A single word showed you, sir, that your secret was discovered, and if I wrote rather than said it, it was to prove to you that my discretion was to be trusted.” (Sherlock Holmes)