The Adventures Of Sherlock Holmes

Prev | Current Page 569 | Next

Doyle, Arthur Conan

"The Adventures Of Sherlock Holmes"

In this I was asked to sit, and then Mr. Rucastle, walking up and down on the other side of the room, began to tell me a series of the funniest stories that I have ever listened to. You cannot imagine how comical he was, and I laughed until I was quite weary. Mrs. Rucastle, however, who has evidently no sense of humour, never so much as smiled, but sat with her hands in her lap, and a sad, anxious look upon her face. After an hour or so, Mr. Rucastle suddenly remarked that it was time to commence the duties of the day, and that I might change my dress and go to little Edward in the nursery.

? ? ? ?
"Two days later this same performance was gone through under exactly similar circumstances. Again I changed my dress, again I sat in the window, and again I laughed very heartily at the funny stories of which my employer had an immense repertoire, and which he told inimitably. Then he handed me a yellowbacked novel, and moving my chair a little sideways, that my own shadow might not fall upon the page.

Pages:
557 558 559 560 561 562 563 564 565 566 567 568 569 570 571 572 573 574 575 576 577 578 579 580 581

The Luckiest Girl in the School (page 162) The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Chapters 26 to 30 (page 58) The Adventures of Gerard (page 15)

Free electronic library

Doyle, Arthur Conan

"The Adventures Of Sherlock Holmes"