(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift) Yet, so far have you been from answering my expectation in any of your letters that on the contrary you are loading our carrier every week with libels, and keys, and reflections, and memoirs, and second parts wherein I see myself accused of reflecting upon great state folk of degrading human nature (for so they have still the confidence to style it), and of abusing the female sex. I suppose, now, said Miss Ingram, curling her lip sarcastically, we shall have an abstract of the memoirs of all the governesses extant: in order to avert such a visitation, I again move the introduction of a new topic. (The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle) (The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)Īt last, however, by touching a secret spring, an inner compartment will open-a roll of paper appears-you seize it-it contains many sheets of manuscript-you hasten with the precious treasure into your own chamber, but scarcely have you been able to decipher 'Oh! Thou-whomsoever thou mayst be, into whose hands these memoirs of the wretched Matilda may fall'-when your lamp suddenly expires in the socket, and leaves you in total darkness.Īs I have reason to believe, however, that the full facts have never been revealed to the general public, and as my friend Sherlock Holmes had a considerable share in clearing the matter up, I feel that no memoir of him would be complete without some little sketch of this remarkable episode. Because I made a blunder, my dear Watson-which is, I am afraid, a more common occurrence than any one would think who only knew me through your memoirs.
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