My companion flushed up with pleasure at my words, and the earnest way in which I uttered them. I had already observed that he was as sensitive to flattery on the score of his art as any girl could be of her beauty.
“that you have some reason for washing your hands of the matter
This conversation had occurred while our cab had been threading its way through a long succession
I’ve told you all I know myself now, for the rest is mere surmise and conjecture
One’s ideas must be as broad as Nature if they are to interpret Nature
There are vague memories in our souls of those misty centuries when the world was in its childhood.
you have brought detection as near an exact science as it ever will be brought in this world.”
My companion flushed up with pleasure at my words, and the earnest way in which I uttered them.
My companion flushed up with pleasure at my words, and the earnest way in which I uttered them. I had already observed that he was as sensitive to flattery on the score of his art as any girl could be of her beauty.
You know a conjurer gets no credit when once he has explained his trick and if I show you too much of my method of working, you will come to the conclusion that I am a very ordinary individual after all.”
