It is always a joy to meet an American, Mr. Moulton, for I am one of those who believes that the folly of a monarch and the blundering of a minister in far-gone years will not prevent our children from being some day citizens of the same world-wide country under a flag which shall be a quartering of the Union Jack with the Stars and Stripes.

It is fortunate for this community that I am not a criminal.

And once again Mr. Sherlock Holmes is free to devote his life to examining those interesting little problems which the complexity of human life so pletifuly presents.

It is not my intention to be fulsome, but I confess that I covet your skull.

The whole force of the State is at your back if you should need it. I'm afraid that all the queen's horses and all the queen's men cannot avail in this matter.

It is, of course, a trifle, but there is nothing so important as trifles.

My sister and I, you will recollect, were twins, and you know how subtle are the links which bind two souls which are so closely allied.