And yet the motives of women are so inscrutable. You remember the woman at Margate whom I suspected for the same reason. No powder on her nose - that proved to be the correct solution. How can you build on such a quicksand? Their most trivial action may mean volumes, or their most extraordinary conduct may depend upon a hairpin or a curling tongs. β¨ Arthur Conan Doyle (2016). The Return of Sherlock Holmes, p.174, My Ebook Publishing House
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- The ways of fate are indeed hard to understand. If there is not some compensation hereafter, then the world is a cruel jest. β¨ Arthur Conan Doyle (2013). The Complete Sherlock Holmes, p.1147, Race Po β¦ βΆ
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