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I trust that age doth not wither nor custom stale my infinite variety.

The Diogenes Club is the queerest club in London, and Mycroft one of the queerest men. He's always there from quarter to five to twenty to eight. It's six now, so if you care for a stroll this beautiful evening I shall be very happy to introduce you to two curiosities.

So you can put that in your pipe and smoke it Mr. Busybody Holmes.

I can understand. There is a mystery about this which stimulates the imagination; where there is no imagination, there is no horror.

Yes, it is an interesting instance of a throwback, which appears to be both physical and spiritual.

I find it hard enough to tackle facts, Holmes, without flying away after theories and fancies. You are right, said Holmes demurely: you do find it very hard to tackle the facts.

By all means. The first three sensible words that you have uttered since you entered this room, Watson

Pray give my greetings to Mrs. Watson, and believe me to be, my dear fellow, Very sincerely yours, SHERLOCK HOLMES.

I abhor the dull routine of existence. I crave for mental exaltation.

I confess that I covet your skull.

He used to make merry over the cleverness of women, but I have not heard him do it of late. And when he speaks of Irene Adler, or when he refers to her photograph, it is always under the honourable title of the woman.

that for strange effects and extraordinary combinations we must go to life itself, which is always far more daring than any effort of the imagination.

I know you, you scoundrel! I have heard of you before. You are Holmes, the meddler." My friend smiled. "Holmes, the busybody!" His smile broadened. "Holmes, the Scotland Yard Jack-in-office!" Holmes chuckled heartily.

But how could you guess what the motive was?

He was a well-grown, handsome man, with a splendid forehead

If ever human features bespoke vice of the most malignant type, they were certainly those of Enoch J. Drebber, of Cleveland.

As a rule," said Holmes, "the more bizarre a thing is the less mysterious it proves to be. It is your commonplace, featureless crimes which are really puzzling, just as a commonplace face is the most difficult to identify.

It is a capital mistake to theorize before you have all the evidence. It biases the

jacket. It was this sketch-book, which was as dilapidated

I am inclined to think— said I. I should do so, Sherlock Holmes remarked impatiently.

disappointment, manifested no further interest in her when once she had ceased to be the centre of one of his problems, and she is now the head of a private school at Walsall, where I believe that she has met with considerable success.

I have no data yet. It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data.

no more to be done in the matter. I have the honour to wish you a very good morning." He bowed, and, turning away without observing the hand which the King had stretched out to him, he set off in my company for his

It wasn't many people who got inspirational speeches from demons. Nick counted himself lucky in that regard. Or cursed.