'It was all love on my side, and all good comradeship and friendship on hers.' ('The Abbey Grange') #ValentinesDay

'I love him so! I would not bring one shadow on his life, and this I know would break his noble heart.' ('The second Stain') #ValentinesDay

'For years I have loved her. For years she has loved me.' ('The Devil's Foot') #ValentinesDay

'I have never loved, Watson; ('The Devil's Foot') #ValentinesDay

'I swear to you, Mr Holmes, that there never was in this world a man who loved a woman with a more whole-hearted love' ('The Disappearance of Lady Frances Carfax') #ValentinesDay

'There are the wheels, Watson. Quick man, if you love me!' ('The Dying Detective') #ValentinesDay

'There was about him also that glamour of experience and of mystery which attracts a woman's interest and finally her love.' (The Valley of Fear) #ValentinesDay

'Besides, what is there to be afraid of? Are we not free folks in a free country? If you love me and I you, who will dare to come between?' (The Valley of Fear) #ValentinesDay

'Ettie threw her arms round her lover's neck. 'Give it up, Jack! For my sake—for God's sake, give it up! ' (The Valley of Fear) #ValentinesDay ...

'She had loved him as such women can love' ('Thor Bridge') #ValentinesDay

'I do not think that in our adventures we have ever come across a stranger example of what perverted love can bring about.' ('Thor Bridge') #ValentinesDay

'If ever a woman loved a man with all her heart and soul, she loves me.' ('The Sussex Vampire') #ValentinesDay

'He loves me. Yes. But do I not love him? Do I not love him even to sacrifice myself rather than break his dear heart. That is how I love him.' ('The Sussex Vampire') #ValentinesDay

'The strongest of all holds where a woman is concerned-the hold of love.' ('The Illustrious Client') #ValentinesDay

'he has completely and absolutely won her heart. To say that she loves him hardly expresses it. She dotes upon him, she is obsessed by him. Outside of him there is nothing on earth.' ('The Illustrious Client') #ValentinesDay

'She is not in her senses. She is madly in love. She has been told all about him. She cares nothing.' ('The Illustrious Client') #ValentinesDay

'But there is no doubt that it was a serious love affair.' ('The Lion's Mane') #ValentinesDay

'at last our intimacy turned to love—deep, deep, passionate love, such love as I had dreamed of, but never hoped to feel.' ('The Lion's Mane') #ValentinesDay

Sothebys sold the manuscript of The Sign of the Four for $800,000 this morning. 'Well, I often wonder what the Vintners buy One half so precious as the stuff they sell' and now I know.

The AMS Press reprint of the Baker Street Journal was advertised in the December 1860 issue.