Do you think that I should intrude if I were to call this afternoon and make the acquaintance of Sir Henry ?" "I am sure that he would be delighted." "Then perhaps you would mention that I propose to do so.

We may in our humble way do something to make things more easy for him until he becomes accustomed to his new surroundings.

Will you come upstairs, Dr.Watson, and inspect my collection of Lepidoptera?
I think it is the most complete one in the south-west of England.

By the time that you have looked through them lunch will be almost ready." But I was eager to get back to my charge.

The melancholy of the moor, the death of the unfortunate pony, the weird sound which had been associated with the grim legend of the Baskervilles, all these things tinged my thoughts with sadness.