No doubt after the emperor was overthrown in 1911, your gardener would have joined the rest of the world in cutting the queue and taking on the laws and customs of his adoptive land. Before that, his...
Scones (flavoured with outrage, optional—see My Story) Mix together: 2 cups flour 4 t. baking powder ¾ t. salt 2-4 T. sugar (depending on whether scones are to be sweet or savoury) Cut into the flour...
Stop it!'He relented, so far as he could, stepping forward to take my head into his hands. 'Russell, once, only once, I was taken and suffered for it. Please, my dear wife, believe me, this is not the...
The matches also came into focus: a cheap, bright label, in French. I picked up the box, slid it open, my nose stung by the smell of sulphur. Four matches. I took one, scraped it into life, held it to...
The night air moved up towards the Downs, washing over sea and orchard. I breathed it in, and thought that henceforth, loneliness would smell to me like fermenting apples.
The past is but the beginning of a beginning. —H. G. Wells, The Discovery of the Future
Would you rather have it outside? Now the heat’s broken, coffee in the sun isn’t a repulsive idea. What a romantic offer: something not actively repulsive.
You think the knife was used, cleaned, then scraped through the blood on the floor? Lestrade asked. Evidently. Why do that? Chief Inspector, I try to form my hypotheses upon data, rather than shape th...
A quick mind is worthless unless you can control the emotions with it as well.
Do not neglect to bring your revolver, Russell. It may be needed, and it does us no good in your drawer with that disgusting cheese.My lovely Stilton; it's almost ripe, too. I do hope Mr. Thomas enjoy...
He was a talkative man and jabbered away the whole time as his horse meandered about the road. It saved us from having to construct a story for him, though by the time he left us in Banbury, I was mos...
Holmes, didn’t you tell me a few weeks ago that there has been a series of burglaries from inns and public houses in Eastbourne? I hardly think two qualifies as a series, Russell. You are interrupting...
If she was finished.
However, the mind has an amazing ability to continue worrying away at a problem all on its own, so that when the Eureka! comes it is as mysterious as if it were God speaking.
I became, in other words, more like Holmes than the man himself: brilliant, driven to a point of obsession, careless of myself, mindless of others, but without the passion and the deep-down, inbred lo...
I have never found ‘luck’ a dependable companion
I looked back to see Holmes mincing within my footsteps, his skirt drawn up to reveal the trousers below. Were it not for the threat hanging over us, I would have given out with a girlish giggle at th...
Since people who discovered bodies in odd places were often the people who had put them there in the first place.
Pray tell, she said, although her voice told him not to.He ignored her tone, let out a thoughtful cloud of smoke, and said, ...
The hand of bone and sinew and flesh achieves its immortality in taking up a pen. The hand on a page wields a greater power than the fleshly hand ever could in life.
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