A Study In Scarlet Quotes – Flashcards

nothing is little - s.h

trying to solve the problem as to whether it is possible to get comfortable rooms at a reasonable price - j.w

He was bemoaning himself this morning because he could not get someone to go halves with him in some nice rooms which he had found and which were too much for his purse - m.s

perhaps you would not care for him as a constant companion - m.s

I didn't say there was anything against him, He is a little queer in his ideas, an enthusiast in some branches of science, as far as i know he is a decent fellow enough - m.s

and a first-class chemist but he has never taken any systematic medical classes. His studies are very desultory and eccentric, he has amassed a lot of knowledge which would astonish his professors

to draw out though he can be communicative enough when the fancy seizes him - m.s

the laboratory for weeks or else he works there from morning till night m.s

you don't get on with him, you proposed this arrangement so you must not hold me responsible- m.s

washing your hands of the matter, is this fellow's temper so formidable or what is it? - j.w

holmes is a little too scientific, it approaches to cold bloodedness, i could imagine his giving a friend a little pinch of the latest vegetable alkaloid, not out of malevolence, but simply out of a spirit of enquiry in order to have an accurate idea of the effects. to do him justice, he would take it himself with the same readiness. he appears to have a passion for definite and exact knowledge.

i have found it, i have found a reagent which is precipitated by haemoglobin and by nothing else. had he discovered a gold mine, greater delight could not have shone upon his features.

clapping his hands and looking as delighted as a child with a new toy.

and there will no longer be any difficulty - his eyes glittered as he spoke and he put his hand over his heart and bowed as if to some applauding crowd conjured up by his imagination.

my profession is its own reward

under the sun. It has all been done before

he said digging a bodkin into his finger and drawing off the resulting drop of blood in a chemical pipette.

i dabble with poisons a good deal, he held out his hands as he spoke and they were all mottled over with pieces of plaster and discoloured with strong acids.

the smell of strong tobacco, i hope?

and occasionally do experiments. would that annoy you?