So saying, Mother Rigby put the stem between her lips.
"Dickon," cried she, in her high, sharp tone, "another coal for my pipe!"
The Red-Headed League
I had called upon my friend, Mr. Sherlock Holmes,[203-1] ] one day in the autumn of last year, and found him in deep conversation with a very stout, florid-faced, elderly gentleman, with fiery red hair. With an apology for my intrusion, I was about to withdraw, when Holmes pulled me abruptly into the room, and closed the door behind me.
"You could not possibly have come at a better time, my dear Watson," he said, cordially.
"I was afraid that you were engaged."
"So I am. Very much so."
"Then I can wait in the next room."