If I lay on my face the weight would come upon my spine, and I shuddered to think of that dreadful snap. I had remained indoors all day, for the weather had taken a sudden turn to rain, with high autumnal winds, and the Jezail bullet which I had brought back in one of my limbs as a relic of my Afghan campaign throbbed with dull persistence. By the same brilliant reasoning, every man's body is to be found in the neighborhood of his wardrobe. We can't command our love, but we can our actions. It is equally certain, too, that whatever her sins are, they will soon receive a more than sufficient punishment.
Crime is common.
Logic is rare. Therefore it is upon the logic rather than upon the crime that you should dwell. You have degraded what should have been a course of lectures into a series of tales. As to my own little practice, it seems to be degenerating into an agency for recovering lost lead pencils and giving advice to young ladies from boarding-schools. Holmes shook his head gravely.