“In his madness he became a terrifying actor!”
“He was proud and stubborn, and all the ton looked up to him. Men curried his favor, women flirted like mad. And all the while he'd been terrified every time he'd opened his mouth.”
“Every actor is somewhat mad, or else he'd be a plumber or a bookkeeper or a salesman.”
“You mean to say he became mad deliberately?'...Nothing is more likely,' said the duke.”
“Don’t be mad” was the first thing he said. He really was terrified, as if the most frightening reaper on the planet was no scarier than a mouse, and yet put him in a tux and it was the Apocalypse.”
“The stage lost a fine actor, even as science lost an acute reasoner, when [Holmes] became a specialist in crime.”