The Doctor's heat, as it usually did, boiled out in spasms on trifles.

Once he stumped his toe, and, I am sorry to say, swore roundly about it, just as he would have done in the new Arcadia, if one of the jail-birds comprising that colony had been ungrateful for his advantages.

Philanthropists, for some curious reason, are not the most amiable members of small families.
He gave Holmes the roll of parchment he had in his pocket, looking keenly at him, as he did so, but only saying, that, if he meant to sign it, it would be done to-morrow.

As Holmes took it, they stopped at the great door of the factory.

He went in alone, Knowles going down the street.