Arthur Conan Doyle

Name: The Stark Munro Letters — OAKLEY VILLAS, BIRCHESPOOL, 29th May, 1882.
Author: Arthur Conan Doyle

The Stark Munro Letters — OAKLEY VILLAS, BIRCHESPOOL, 29th May… (1895)

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“The Stark Munro Letters — OAKLEY VILLAS, BIRCHESPOOL, 29th May, 1882.”, published in 1895, is a work by Arthur Conan Doyle. It explores elements such as Cullingworth, Munro and Whitehall.

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Arthur Conan Doyle, The Stark Munro Letters — OAKLEY VILLAS, BIRCHESPOOL, 29th May… (1895)

“ Munro. sir." At last, however, his conversation became unbearable--a foul young man is odious, but a foul old one is surely the most sickening thing on earth. One feels that the white upon the hair, like that upon the mountain, should signify a height attained. I rose and bade him good-night, with a last impression of him leaning back in his dressing-gown, a sodden cigar-end in the corner of his mouth, his beard all slopped with whisky, and his half-glazed eyes looking sideways after me with the leer of a satyr. ”

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Arthur Conan Doyle, The Stark Munro Letters — OAKLEY VILLAS, BIRCHESPOOL, 29th May… (1895)

“ I often wonder whether something of that wilt cling to our atoms--whether the dust of Johnnie Munro will ever have something of him about it, and be separable from that of Bertie Swanborough. I think it is possible that we DO impress ourselves upon the units of our own structure. There are facts which tend to show that every tiny organic cell of which a man is composed, contains in its microcosm a complete miniature of the individual of which it forms a part. The ovum itself from which we are all produced is, as you know, too small to be transfixed upon the point of a fine needle ”

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Arthur Conan Doyle, The Stark Munro Letters — OAKLEY VILLAS, BIRCHESPOOL, 29th May… (1895)

“ If a comet were to strike this globule of ours, and to knock it into a billion fragments, which were splashed all over the solar system--if its fiery breath were to lick up the earth's surface until it was peeled like an orange, still at the end of a hundred millions of years every tiniest particle of our bodies would exist--in other forms and combinations, it is true, but still those very atoms which now form the forefinger which traces these words. ”

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Arthur Conan Doyle, The Stark Munro Letters — OAKLEY VILLAS, BIRCHESPOOL, 29th May… (1895)

“ But, mind you, Bertie, I have a very high respect for the human body, and I hold that it has been unduly snubbed and maligned by divines and theologians: "our gross frames" and "our miserable mortal clay" are phrases which to my mind partake more of blasphemy than of piety. It is no compliment to the Creator to depreciate His handiwork. Whatever theory or belief we may hold about the soul, there can, I suppose, be no doubt that the body is immortal. ”

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Arthur Conan Doyle, The Stark Munro Letters — OAKLEY VILLAS, BIRCHESPOOL, 29th May… (1895)

“ Well, if a single cell contains so much, perhaps a single molecule and atom has more than we think.
Have you ever had any personal experience of dermoid cysts? We had one in Cullingworth's practice just before his illness, and we were both much excited about it. They seem to me to be one of those wee little chinks through which one may see deep into Nature's workings. ”

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Arthur Conan Doyle, The Stark Munro Letters — OAKLEY VILLAS, BIRCHESPOOL, 29th May… (1895)

“ I found in the columns of the Birchespool Post that there was to be a sale of furniture that evening, and I went down to the auctioneer's rooms, accompanied, much against my will, by Captain Whitehall, who was very drunk and affectionate.
"By God, Dr. Munro, sir, I'm the man that's going to stick to you. I'm only an old sailor-man, sir, with perhaps more liquor than sense; but I'm the Queen's servant, and touch my pension every quarter day. ”

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Arthur Conan Doyle, The Stark Munro Letters — OAKLEY VILLAS, BIRCHESPOOL, 29th May… (1895)

“ That can only be, I think, that EVERY cell in the body has the power latent in it by which it may reproduce the whole individual--and that occasionally under some special circumstances--some obscure nervous or vascular excitement--one of these microscopic units of structure actually does make a clumsy attempt in that direction. ”

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Arthur Conan Doyle, The Stark Munro Letters — OAKLEY VILLAS, BIRCHESPOOL, 29th May… (1895)

“ Well, I wanted to see no more of my neighbour, but in he came as I was sitting at breakfast, smelling like a bar-parlour, with stale whisky oozing at every pore.
"Good morning, Dr. Munro, sir," said he, holding out a twitching hand. "I compliment you, sir! You look fresh, ---- fresh, and me with a head like a toy-shop. We had a pleasant, quiet evening, and I took nothing to hurt, but it is the ---- relaxing air of this place that settles me. I can't bear up against it. Last year it gave me the horrors, and I expect it will again. You're off house-hunting, I suppose?" ”

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Arthur Conan Doyle, The Stark Munro Letters — OAKLEY VILLAS, BIRCHESPOOL, 29th May… (1895)

“ On the second evening a card was solemnly brought up by the landlady's daughter from the lodger who occupied the room below. On it was inscribed "Captain Whitehall"; and then underneath, in brackets, "Armed Transport." On the back of the card was written, "Captain Whitehall (Armed Transport) presents his compliments to Dr. Munro, and would be glad of his company to supper at 8.30." To this I answered, "Dr. Munro presents his compliments to Captain Whitehall (Armed Transport) , and will be most happy to accept his kind invitation." ”

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Arthur Conan Doyle, The Stark Munro Letters — OAKLEY VILLAS, BIRCHESPOOL, 29th May… (1895)

“ One chair went with the table, of course; and then I spent the next ten minutes in trying to determine whether the other two looked better together--a dense block of chairs, as it were--or scattered so that the casual glance would get the idea of numerous chairs. I placed them finally one on the right, and one in front of the table. Then I put down my fender, and nailed "Spring," "The Banjo Players," and "Windsor Castle" on to three of the walls, with the mental promise that my first spare half-crown should buy a picture for the fourth. ”

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Arthur Conan Doyle, The Stark Munro Letters — OAKLEY VILLAS, BIRCHESPOOL, 29th May… (1895)

“ He listened to it all with much sympathy, and to my horror tossed off a whole tumbler-full of neat whisky to my success. So enthusiastic was he that it was all I could do to prevent him from draining a second one.
"You'll do it, Dr. Munro, sir!" he cried. "I know a man when I see one, and you'll do it. There's my hand, sir! I'm with you! You needn't be ashamed to grasp it, for by ----, though I say it myself, it's been open to the poor and shut to a bully ever since I could suck milk. Yes, sir, you'll make a good ship-mate, and I'm ---- glad to have you on my poop. ”

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Arthur Conan Doyle, The Stark Munro Letters — OAKLEY VILLAS, BIRCHESPOOL, 29th May… (1895)

“ I don't claim to be R. N., but I'm not merchant service either. Here I am, rotting in lodgings, but by ----, Dr. Munro, sir, I carried seven thousand stinking Turks from Varna to Balaclava Bay. I'm with you, Dr. Munro, and we put this thing through together."
We came to the auction rooms and we stood on the fringe of the crowd waiting for our chance. Presently up went a very neat little table. I gave a nod and got it for nine shillings. Then three rather striking looking chairs, black wood and cane bottoms. Four shillings each I gave for those. Then a metal umbrella-stand, four and sixpence. ”

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Arthur Conan Doyle, The Stark Munro Letters — OAKLEY VILLAS, BIRCHESPOOL, 29th May… (1895)

“ It brings home to me what an unstable chemical compound man is. Here are the stage accessories as good as ever, while the players have all split up into hydrogen and oxygen and nitrogen and carbon, with traces of iron and silica and phosphorus. ”

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Arthur Conan Doyle, The Stark Munro Letters — OAKLEY VILLAS, BIRCHESPOOL, 29th May… (1895)

“ There remained the more serious matter of the furniture. I calculated that when my lodgings were paid for I might, without quite emptying my purse, expend four pounds upon furniture--not a large allowance for a good sized villa. That would leave me a few shillings to go on with, and before they were exhausted Cullingworth's pound would come in. ”

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