13472 I have no doubt I can get details from Forbes.
13473 The authorities are excellent at amassing facts, though they do not always use them to advantage.
13474 What a lovely thing a rose is!'
13475 He walked past the couch to the open window, and held up the drooping stalk of a moss rose, looking down at the dainty blend of crimson and green.
13476 It was a new phase of his character to me, for I had never before seen him show any keen interest in natural objects.
13477 'There is nothing in which deduction is so necessary as in religion,' said he, leaning with his back against the shutters.
13478 'It can be built up as an exact science by the reasoner.
13479 Our highest assurance of the goodness of Providence seems to me to rest in the flowers.
13480 All other things, our powers, our desires, our food, are really necessary for our existence in the first instance.
13481 But this rose is an extra.
13482 Its smell and its colour are an embellishment of life, not a condition of it.
13483 It is only goodness which gives extras, and so I say again that we have much to hope from the flowers.'
13484 Percy Phelps and his nurse looked at Holmes during this demonstration with surprise and a good deal of disappointment written upon their faces.