This business has had a very bad effect upon him.

He was an old friend of McCarthy's, and, I may add, a great benefactor to him, for I have learned that he gave him Hatherley Farm rent free." "Indeed! That is interesting," said Holmes.
"Oh, yes! In a hundred other ways he has helped him.

Everybody about here speaks of his kindness to him." "Really! Does it not strike you as a little singular that this McCarthy, who appears to have had little of his own, and to have been under such obligations to Turner, should still talk of marrying his son to Turner's daughter, who is, presumably, heiress to the estate, and that in such a very cocksure manner, as if it were merely a case of a proposal and all else would follow?
It is the more strange, since we know that Turner himself was averse to the idea.

The daughter told us as much.

Do you not deduce something from that ?" "We have got to the deductions and the inferences," said Lestrade, winking at me.