I returned home not disappointed, for I have said that I had long considered those authors useless whom the professor reprobated; but I returned not a...

As to the note, it is important also, or at least the initials are, so I congratulate you again.” “I’ve wasted time enough,” said Lestrade, rising. “I...

This conversation they are apt to run into with the same temper that boys discover in delighting to hear terrible stories of spirits and hobgoblins, w...

I requested his advice concerning the books I ought to procure. Waldman, “to have gained a disciple; and if your application equals your ability, I ha...

“‘Oh, yes,’ said he, turning to me, ‘we are very much obliged to you, Miss Hunter, for falling in with our whims so far as to cut your hair. I assure ...

But these others, no doubt, answer to the particular requirements of the _Nautilus_. This dial with the movable needle is a manometer, is it not?” “It...

She must own that she was tired of great houses: after going over so many, she really had no pleasure in fine carpets or satin curtains. “If it were m...

I am not an expert driver, and I had immediately to turn my attention to the horse. When I looked back again the second hill had hidden the black smok...

For an instant I could hardly believe that here was indeed a door which led away from death. The next instant I threw myself through, and lay half-fai...

I had not believed it possible.” “I suspected as much,” replied Elizabeth. “But how did he account for it?” “It must have been his sisters’ doing.