It was all love on my side, and all good comradeship and friendship on hers. When we parted she was a free woman, but I could never again be a free man.

I followed you.' I saw no one.' That is what you may expect to see when I follow you.

The more featureless and commonplace a crime is, the more difficult it is to bring it home.

A man always finds it hard to realize that he may have finally lost a woman's love, however badly he may have treated her.

Just as an octopus may have his den in some ocean cave, and come floating out a silent image of horror to attack a swimmer, so I picture such a spirit lurking in the dark of the house which he curses by his presence, and ready to float out upon all whom he can injure.

The sky was of the deepest blue, with a few white, fleecy clouds drifting lazily across it, and the air was filled with the low drone of insects or with a sudden sharper note as bee or bluefly shot past with its quivering, long-drawn hum, like an insect tuning-fork.

I know, my dear Watson, that you share my love of all that is bizarre and outside the conventions and humdrum routine of daily life.