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

“How ever did you see that?” “Because I looked for it.”

There was a brisk northern wind, heavy and wet with the salt of the sea, and he felt, as he turned his face to it, fresh life and strength surging in his blood and bracing his limbs.

It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data.

I am somewhat exhausted; I wonder how a battery feels when it pours electricity into a non-conductor?

...Holmes, who loathed every form of society with his whole Bohemian soul, remained in our lodgings in Baker Street, buried among his old books, and alternating from week to week between cocaine and ambition, the drowsiness of the drug, and the fierce energy of his own keen nature.

Watson. Come at once if convenient. If inconvenient, come all the same.