Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
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8,885 appearances
1 recordings
1 series
first heard Jul 2026
last heard 22 Jul
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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The men are in a good humor in spite of the short allowance upon which they have been placed.
Steam is kept up in the engine room.
That there may be no delay should an opportunity for escape present itself.
The captain is in exuberant spirits.
Though he still retains that wild
Fay expression, which I have already remarked upon.
This burst of cheerfulness puzzles me more than his former gloom.
I cannot understand it.
I think I mentioned in an early part of this journal that
That one of his oddities is that he never permits any person to enter his cabin, but insists upon making his own bed such as it is, and performing every other office for himself.
To my surprise, he handed me the key today and
And requested me to go down there.
and take the time by his chronometer.
While he measured the altitude of the sun at noon.
It is a bare little room, containing a washing stand and a few books, but little else in the way of luxury.
Except some pictures upon the walls.
The majority of these are small cheap oleographs.
But there was one watercolor sketch of the head of a young lady which arrested my attention.
It was evidently a portrait.
and not one of those fancy types of female beauty which sailors particularly affect.
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