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You have been reading the papers diligently of late

She responded beautifully. The photograph is in a recess behind a sliding panel just above the right bell-pull. She was there in an instant, and I caught a glimpse of it as she half-drew it out. When I cried out that it was a false alarm, she replaced it, glanced at the rocket, rushed from the room, and I have not seen her since. I rose, and, making my excuses, escaped from the house. I hesitated whether to attempt to secure the photograph at once; but the coachman had come in, and as he was watching me narrowly, it seemed safer to wait. A little over-precipitance may ruin all.”

Grit in a sensitive instrument, or a crack in one of his own high-power lenses, would not be more disturbing than a strong emotion in a nature such as his.

All emotions, and that one particularly, were abhorrent to his cold, precise, but admirably balanced mind.

outside the conventions and humdrum routine of every-day life

She is the daintiest thing under a bonnet on this planet.

He never spoke of the softer passions, save with a gibe and a sneer.

She has the face of the most beautiful of women, and the mind of the most resolute of men.

predominates the whole of her sex

TO Sherlock Holmes she is always the woman. I have seldom heard him mention her under any other name. In his eyes she eclipses and predominates the whole of her sex.