"Well, I never!" said he.

"I thought at first that you had done something clever, but I see that there was nothing in it, after all." "I begin to think, Watson," said Holmes, "that I make a mistake in explaining.

'Omne ignotum pro magnifico,' you know, and my poor little reputation, such as it is, will suffer shipwreck if I am so candid.

Can you not find the advertisement, Mr.Wilson ?" "Yes, I have got it now," he answered with his thick red finger planted halfway down the column.

"Here it is.