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1 He was afraid of his family unhappiness being dragged before the world.
The Return of Sherlock HolmesBy Arthur Conan Doyle ContextHighlight In V. THE ADVENTURE OF THE PRIORY SCHOOL
2 I am only a simple Norfolk squire, but there is not a man in England who ranks his family honour more highly than I do.
The Return of Sherlock HolmesBy Arthur Conan Doyle ContextHighlight In III. THE ADVENTURE OF THE DANCING MEN
3 I happen to know that he paid seven hundred pounds to a footman for a note two lines in length, and that the ruin of a noble family was the result.
The Return of Sherlock HolmesBy Arthur Conan Doyle ContextHighlight In VII. THE ADVENTURE OF CHARLES AUGUSTUS MILVERTON
4 You will remember, Watson, how the dreadful business of the Abernetty family was first brought to my notice by the depth which the parsley had sunk into the butter upon a hot day.
The Return of Sherlock HolmesBy Arthur Conan Doyle ContextHighlight In VIII. THE ADVENTURE OF THE SIX NAPOLEONS
5 You'll think it very mad, Mr. Holmes, that a man of a good old family should marry a wife in this fashion, knowing nothing of her past or of her people, but if you saw her and knew her, it would help you to understand.
The Return of Sherlock HolmesBy Arthur Conan Doyle ContextHighlight In III. THE ADVENTURE OF THE DANCING MEN
6 For example, in Dr. Barnicot's hall, where a sound might arouse the family, the bust was taken outside before being broken, whereas in the surgery, where there was less danger of an alarm, it was smashed where it stood.
The Return of Sherlock HolmesBy Arthur Conan Doyle ContextHighlight In VIII. THE ADVENTURE OF THE SIX NAPOLEONS
7 Where your calling is more open to criticism is when you pry into the secrets of private individuals, when you rake up family matters which are better hidden, and when you incidentally waste the time of men who are more busy than yourself.
The Return of Sherlock HolmesBy Arthur Conan Doyle ContextHighlight In XI. THE ADVENTURE OF THE MISSING THREE-QUARTER
8 I'll begin at the time of my marriage last year, but I want to say first of all that, though I'm not a rich man, my people have been at Riding Thorpe for a matter of five centuries, and there is no better known family in the County of Norfolk.
The Return of Sherlock HolmesBy Arthur Conan Doyle ContextHighlight In III. THE ADVENTURE OF THE DANCING MEN
9 It was evident that to his intensely aristocratic nature this discussion of his intimate family affairs with a stranger was most abhorrent, and that he feared lest every fresh question would throw a fiercer light into the discreetly shadowed corners of his ducal history.
The Return of Sherlock HolmesBy Arthur Conan Doyle ContextHighlight In V. THE ADVENTURE OF THE PRIORY SCHOOL