“The sight of a friendly face in the great wilderness of London is a pleasant thing indeed to a lonely man.”
More from Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
“It is a mistake to confound strangeness with mystery.”
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“It was easier to know it than to explain why I know it. If you were asked to prove that…”