said he. “I am not a very good man, Effie, but I think Not another word did he say of the case until that I am a better one than you have given me credit late that night, when he was turning away, with his for being.” lighted candle, for his bedroom.
Holmes and I followed them down the lane, and “Watson,” said he, “if it should ever strike you my friend plucked at my sleeve as we came out. that I am getting a little over-confident in my powers, or giving less pains to a case than it deserves, kindly
“I think,” said he, “that we shall be of more use in whisper ‘Norbury’ in my ear, and I shall be infinitely London than in Norbury.” obliged to you.”