日期：2020-04-26 About nine oclock the light among the trees was extinguished, and all was dark in the direction of the Manor House. Two hours passed slowly away, and then, suddenly, just at the stroke of eleven, a single bright light shone out right in front of us.... 阅读全文>>

日期：2020-04-26 Sherlock Holmes and I had no difficulty in engaging a bedroom and sitting-room at the Crown Inn. They were on the upper floor, and from our window we could command a view of the avenue gate, and of the inhabited wing of Stoke Moran Manor House. At d... 阅读全文>>

日期：2020-04-26 It was nearly one oclock when Sherlock Holmes returned from his excursion. He held in his hand a sheet of blue paper, scrawled over with notes and figures. I have seen the will of the deceased wife, said he. To determine its exact meaning I have bee... 阅读全文>>

日期：2020-04-26 Two years have passed since then, and my life has been until lately lonelier than ever. A month ago, however, a dear friend, whom I have known for many years, has done me the honor to ask my hand in marriage. His name is Armitage--Percy Armitage--th... 阅读全文>>

日期：2020-04-26 When Dr. Roylott was in India he married my mother, Mrs. Stoner, the young widow of Major-General Stoner, of the Bengal Artillery. My sister Julia and I were twins, and we were only two years old at the time of my mothers re-marriage. She had a cons... 阅读全文>>

日期：2020-04-26 On glancing over my notes of the seventy odd cases in which I have during the last eight years studied the methods of my friend Sherlock Holmes, I find many tragic, some comic, a large number merely strange, but none commonplace; for, working as he... 阅读全文>>

日期：2020-04-23 Ive had enough of you and your geese, he shouted. I wish you were all at the devil together. If you come pestering me any more with your silly talk Ill set the dog at you. You bring Mrs. Oakshott here and Ill answer her, but what have you to do with... 阅读全文>>

日期：2020-04-23 We passed across Holborn, down Endell Street, and so through a zigzag of slums to Covent Garden Market. One of the largest stalls bore the name of Breckinridge upon it, and the proprietor a horsy-looking man, with a sharp face and trim side-whiskers... 阅读全文>>

日期：2020-04-23 I had been delayed at a case, and it was a little after half-past six when I found myself in Baker Street once more. As I approached the house I saw a tall man in a Scotch bonnet with a coat which was buttoned up to his chin waiting outside in the b... 阅读全文>>

日期：2020-04-23 The goose, Mr. Holmes! The goose, sir! he gasped. Eh? What of it, then? Has it returned to life and flapped off through the kitchen window? Holmes twisted himself round upon the sofa to get a fairer view of the mans excited face. See here, sir! See... 阅读全文>>

日期：2020-04-23 I had called upon my friend Sherlock Holmes upon the second morning after Christmas, with the intention of wishing him the compliments of the season. He was lounging upon the sofa in a purple dressing-gown, a pipe-rack within his reach upon the righ... 阅读全文>>

日期：2020-04-22 A large and comfortable double-bedded room had been placed at our disposal, and I was quickly between the sheets, for I was weary after my night of adventure. Sherlock Holmes was a man, however, who, when he had an unsolved problem upon his mind, wo... 阅读全文>>

日期：2020-04-22 While Sherlock Holmes had been detailing this singular series of events, we had been whirling through the outskirts of the great town until the last straggling houses had been left behind, and we rattled along with a country hedge upon either side o... 阅读全文>>

日期：2020-04-22 It was difficult to refuse any of Sherlock Holmess requests, for they were always so exceedingly definite, and put forward with such a quiet air of mastery. I felt, however, that when Whitney was once confined in the cab my mission was practically a... 阅读全文>>

日期：2020-04-22 Isa Whitney, brother of the late Elias Whitney, D.D., Principal of the Theological College of St. Georges, was much addicted to opium. The habit grew upon him, as I understand, from some foolish freak when he was at college; for having read De Quinc... 阅读全文>>

日期：2020-04-21 It had cleared in the morning, and the sun was shining with a subdued brightness through the dim veil which hangs over the great city. Sherlock Holmes was already at breakfast when I came down. You will excuse me for not waiting for you, said he; I... 阅读全文>>

日期：2020-04-21 Sherlock Holmes sat for some time in silence, with his head sunk forward and his eyes bent upon the red glow of the fire. Then he lit his pipe, and leaning back in his chair he watched the blue smoke-rings as they chased each other up to the ceiling... 阅读全文>>

日期：2020-04-21 When my father took over the Horsham property, he, at my request, made a careful examination of the attic, which had been always locked up. We found the brass box there, although its contents had been destroyed. On the inside of the cover was a pape... 阅读全文>>

日期：2020-04-21 When I glance over my notes and records of the Sherlock Holmes cases between the years 82 and 90, I am faced by so many which present strange and interesting features that it is no easy matter to know which to choose and which to leave. Some, howeve... 阅读全文>>

日期：2020-04-21 Sherlock Holmes was transformed when he was hot upon such a scent as this. Men who had only known the quiet thinker and logician of Baker Street would have failed to recognize him. His face flushed and darkened. His brows were drawn into two hard bl... 阅读全文>>