The great bell of Beaulieu was ringing. Far away through the forest might be heard its musical clangor and swell.

You mentioned your name as if I should recognize it, but beyond the obvious facts that you are a bachelor, a solicitor, a freemason, and an asthmatic, I know nothing whatever about you.

His ignorance was as remarkable as his knowledge. Of contemporary literature, philosophy and politics he appeared to know next to nothing... My surprise reached a climax, however, when I found incidentally that he was ignorant of the Copernican Theory and of the composition of the Solar System.

Have you tried to drive a harpoon through a body? No? Tut, tut, my dear sir, you must really pay attention to these details.

As a rule, the more bizarre a thing is, the less mysterious it proves to be.

He foresaw that she would be very much more useful to him in the character of a free woman.