“Why,” said I, glancing up at my companion, “that was surely the bell. Who could come to-night? Some friend of yours, perhaps?” “Except yourself I have none,” he answered. “I do not encourage visitors.”

We sat in silence for some minutes, Holmes more depressed and shaken than I had ever seen him.

“it is frequently in its least important and lowliest manifestations that the keenest pleasure is to be derived.

even here in the heart of great, hand-made London

white folk out there feel their hearts warm to each other as they never do here at home.

Some, too, have baffled his analytical skill, and would be, as narratives, beginnings without an ending, while others have been but partially cleared up, and have their explanations founded rather upon conjecture and surmise than on that absolute logical proof which was so dear to him.

“I have seen too much not to know that the impression of a woman may be more valuable than the conclusion of an analytical reasoner.

Or should you rather that I sent James off to bed?”

"From Charing Cross Hospital?" "From one or two friends there on the occasion of my marriage." "Dear, dear, that's bad!" said Holmes, shaking his head.