Characters in The Doctor’s Case

Lestrade began to lay them before us in the clipped tones of a trained policeman. Lord Albert Hull had been a tyrant in business and a despot at home. His wife had gone in fear of him, and had apparently been justified in doing so.

“It came out after all,” Holmes said. “Marvellous, Watson! Makes one happy to be alive!” He picked up his violin and began to play, the sun strong on his face.

“The only one who could execute it, and the only one who could hide behind it: Jory Hull, who was no more than five feet tall, bow-legged, slump-shouldered. “As Holmes said, the surprise of the new will was no surprise.

“On his death, Lady Rebecca was to receive one hundred and fifty thousand pund’.

… in his heart for the policeman (although he never would have admitted to such a low emotion), but Lestrade had a queer respect for my friend. It was a wet, dreary afternoon and the clock had just rung half past one. Holmes sat by the window, …

William said that they left with their heads down, and although William spoke, asking Mr. Barnes—the solicitor—if he was well, and making some social remark about the persistence of the rain, Barnes did not reply and the assistant …

“I’m afraid that’s not so, old chap,” Lestrade returned. “Mr. Oliver Stanley, Lord Hull’s valet, had heard Lord Hull’s progress down the hall.

… somehow think, yes, I really do think that . . .” Then Lestrade was bounding up the stairs, leaving Mrs. Hudson to expostulate below. His color was high, his eyes burned, and his teeth—decidedly yellowed by tobacco—were bared in a wolfish grin.

Even after all the years I spent with him and all the adventures we shared, Sherlock Holmes’s sense of humor remains a largely undiscovered country, even to me.

They should have done anyway, but now it will be on Stephen Hull’s terms.” “Yes,” Holmes said. “Leverage. A good word.” He leaned out into the rain. “Stop short, driver!” he cried. “We’ve not quite done!”

“Jory will certainly swing,” Lestrade said. “Stephen will go to jail for life. William Hull may get life, but will more likely get twenty years in Wormwood Scrubs, a kind of living death.”