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"You've got us side-tracked with your interesting anecdotes, Mr. Holmes. What really counts is your remark that there is some connection between the professor and the crime. That you get from the warning received through the man Porlock. Can we for our present practical needs get any further than that?" "We may form some conception as to the motives of the crime.
If I have not expressed the whole of my deep tenderness which is poured out all, all on thee alone—my yearning and continued love, that counts the minutes when thou art not near me; it is not that I cease ever to think of thee, to adore thee, but that it were unmaidenly and overbold to tell thee of it.
I'll show you that I'm as kind at heart, Ollie, as any man in this county, if you'll stand by me and do your part of what's to be done without black looks and grumbles and growls. "I'm a good many years older than you, and maybe I'm not as light-footed and light-headed as you'd like a husband to be, but I've got weight to me where it counts.
'And when she came to the point of being afraid of murdering him, she would leave him without any fuss and live alone and mysterious somewhere in the South of France, or Italy, or Spain. Yes, Spain. There must be real Counts there and she would get her love affair at last. 'But she would still be married. 'Of course! Caroline, looking roguish, was terrible.
Well now, is the number of friendships to be limited, or does wealth of instances itself constitute one claim to superiority? Tox. Oh no; number counts for nothing, that must be understood.
You remember I told you that over in Ireland; when candy and fishing rods mean happiness money is all right after that money is useful enough, but it's the making of it and not the spending it that counts, that and a lot of things that have nothing to do with money.
"Aunt valued it very much, even in its tattered condition, and kept it a long while, as a memorial of her distinguished guests. "The time when I saw Lafayette was in 1825, and there were no tipsy counts then. "It was not at all the thing for her to do; however, that 's neither here nor there.
With the Counts of Nassau and Brederode at their head, and formed in ranks of four by four, they advanced in procession to the palace; all Brussels attended the unwonted spectacle in silent astonishment.
Without appearing to have heard the dialogue, of which she had not lost a word, she began again, giving to her voice all the charm, all the power, all the seduction the demon had bestowed upon it: "For all my tears, my cares, My exile, and my chains, I have my youth, my prayers, And God, who counts my pains."
A faltering step on life's highway, A grip on the bottom rung; A few good deeds done here and there, And my life's song is sung. It's not what you get in pelf that counts, It's not your time in the race, For most of us draw the slower mounts, And our deeds can't keep the pace.
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