"God's truth! how could I have mistook you?
If instead o' standin' there so quiet you had just stepped up and given me that cross-hit of yours under the jaw, I'd ha' known you without a question.

Ah, you're one that has wasted your gifts, you have! You might have aimed high, if you had joined the fancy." "You see, Watson, if all else fails me I have still one of the scientific professions open to me," said Holmes, laughing.

"Our friend won't keep us out in the cold now, I am sure." "In you come, sir, in you come,--you and your friends," he answered.
"Very sorry, Mr.Thaddeus, but orders are very strict.

Had to be certain of your friends before I let them in." Inside, a gravel path wound through desolate grounds to a huge clump of a house, square and prosaic, all plunged in shadow save where a moonbeam struck one corner and glimmered in a garret window.

The vast size of the building, with its gloom and its deathly silence, struck a chill to the heart.