The Hound of the Baskervilles

‘… when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.’

but nothing would induce me to help the rascals in any way.

I am proud to say that I had no interest in the matter.

“The matter is a very private one.”

“The more reason why you should avoid a public investigation.”

“Surely your memory deceives you,”

I have not lived for years with Sherlock Holmes for nothing.

that hour of darkness in which the power of evil is exalted

It was a most melancholy

There’s a light in a woman’s eyes that speaks louder than words.

I told her that since I had seen her I was in no hurry to leave it, and that if she really wanted me to go, the only way to work it was for her to arrange to go with me.