Project Gutenberg #1661
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
Arthur Conan Doyle
1892Conan Doyle's first Sherlock Holmes story collection, prepared story by story from Project Gutenberg plaintext.
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Chapter X. THE ADVENTURE OF THE NOBLE BACHELOR Central question Why does a bride vanish on the day of her wedding? Main argument Holmes traces the disappearance to an old emotional attachment that survives beneath...
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I invited them to meet him here, and, as you see, I made him keep the
appointment.”
“But with no very good result,” I remarked. “His conduct was certainly
not very gracious.”
“Ah, Watson,” said Holmes, smiling, “perhaps you would not be very
gracious either, if, after all the trouble of wooing and wedding, you
found yourself deprived in an instant of wife and of fortune. I think
that we may judge Lord St. Simon very mercifully and thank our stars
that we are never likely to find ourselves in the same position. Draw
your chair up and hand me my violin, for the only problem we have still
to solve is how to while away these bleak autumnal evenings.”