Sherlock Holmes Bibliomancy Reading
This oracle points to a randomly selected line from Sherlock Holmes. The surrounding passages are provided for context.
Your passage is from CHAPTER VIII. THE ADVENTURE OF THE SPECKLED BAND.
“He is a hard man,” she said, “and perhaps he hardly knows his own strength.”
For Context:
CHAPTER VIII. THE ADVENTURE OF THE SPECKLED BAND
“Why, what do you mean?”
For answer Holmes pushed back the frill of black lace which fringed tHe hand that lay upon our visitor’s knee.
Five little livid spots, tHe marks of four fingers and a thumb, were printed upon the white wrist.
“You have been cruelly used,” said Holmes.
The lady coloured deeply and covered over her injured wrist.
“He is a hard man,” she said, “and perhaps he hardly knows his own strength.”
There was a long silence, during which Holmes leaned his chin upon his hands and stared into the crackling fire.
“This is a very deep business,” he said at last.
“There are a thousand details which I should desire to know before I decide upon our course of action.
Yet we have not a moment to lose.
If we were to come to Stoke Moran to-day, would it be possible for us to see over these rooms without the knowledge of your stepfather?”
