Act 5 Scene 1
نص القصة المصورة
- "Holmes took his bottle from the corner of the mantel-piece and his hypodermic syringe from its neat morocco case""Three times a day for many months I had witnessed this performance"
- ""I suppose that its influence is physically a bad one. I find it, however, so transcendently stimulating and clarifying to the mind that its secondary action is a matter of small moment.""Your brain may, as you say, be roused and excited, but it is a pathological and morbid process, which involves increased tissue-change and may at last leave a permanent weakness."
- "he put his finger-tips together and leaned his elbows on the arms of his chair, like one who has a relish for conversation."This is when he states he is a private investigator."That is why I have chosen my own particular profession, — or rather created it, for I am the only one in the world."
- "The only unofficial detective?"
- "The only unofficial consulting detective""I am the last and highest court of appeal in detection""The work itself, the pleasure of finding a field for my peculiar powers, is my highest reward. But you have yourself had some experience of my methods of work in the Jefferson Hope case."
- "I cannot live without brain-work. What else is there to live for? Stand at the window here. Was ever such a dreary, dismal, unprofitable world? See how the yellow fog swirls down the street and drifts across the dun-colored houses. What could be more hopelessly prosaic and material? What is the use of having powers, doctor, when one has no field upon which to exert them? Crime is commonplace, existence is commonplace, and no qualities save those which are commonplace have any function upon earth."
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