Arthur Conan Doyle. A study in scarlet (№ 254107)

I have already said that Holmes played the violin. However, there was something strange, as in all his classes. I knew he could play violin pieces, and quite difficult: not once at my request he played "Song" of Mendelssohn and others of my favorite things. But when he was alone, it was rare to hear or play anything like a melody. In the evenings with his violin on his knees, he leaned back in his chair, closed his eyes and carelessly drove a bow across the strings. Sometimes sonorous and melancholy chords. Another time I could hear the sound which could be heard the frantic fun. Obviously, they matched his mood, but if the sound gave rise to this mood, whether they were the product of some bizarre thoughts or just a whim I could not understand.