The Hound of the Baskervilles

by

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Jack Stapleton is Sir Charles Baskerville’s nephew and Sir Henry Baskerville’s cousin. According to research undertaken by Sherlock Holmes, Stapleton’s father left England for South America as a young man with a bad reputation. He was believed to have died, but instead, he married and had Jack, his only son. Jack inherited his father’s immoral behavior and returned to England after stealing a large sum of money and marrying Beryl Stapleton. He used this money to open a school, which failed under particularly notorious circumstances. Afterwards, the couple changed their name and assumed the identities of brother and sister, rather than husband and wife. This marked the beginning of Jack’s plans to use murder in order to inherit Baskerville Hall and its accompanying fortune. While a fraud as a schoolmaster, Stapleton was an active etymologist and botanist, passions that helped him to lay out a safe path through the marshy parts of the moors where he hid his hound. These pursuits also helped him to make his hound appear particularly fearsome, as he was able to easily procure phosphorous. Mostly, however, Stapleton appears as a man of a singular mind, willing to do anything whatsoever in order to gain the Baskerville fortune, including murdering innocent bystanders and harshly abusing his wife.

Jack Stapleton Quotes in The Hound of the Baskervilles

The The Hound of the Baskervilles quotes below are all either spoken by Jack Stapleton or refer to Jack Stapleton. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Chapter 4  Quotes

We are dealing with a clever man, Watson.

Related Characters: Sherlock Holmes (speaker), Dr. John Watson, Jack Stapleton
Page Number: 283
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Chapter 5 Quotes

It might interest you to know that you have been driving Mr. Sherlock Holmes.

Related Characters: Jack Stapleton (speaker), Sherlock Holmes, Sir Henry Baskerville
Page Number: 294
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Chapter 7 Quotes

The Mire has him. Two in two days, and many more, perhaps, for they get in the way of going there in the dry weather, and never know the difference until the Mire has them in its clutch. It’s a bad place, the great Grimpen Mire.

Related Characters: Jack Stapleton (speaker), Dr. John Watson
Page Number: 311
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Chapter 8  Quotes

He is much attached to her, no doubt, and would lead a lonely life without her, but it would seem the height of selfishness, if he were to stand in the way of her making so brilliant a marriage.

Related Characters: Dr. John Watson (speaker), Sir Henry Baskerville, Jack Stapleton, Beryl Stapleton
Page Number: 320
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Chapter 11 Quotes

Mrs. Lyons […] you are taking a very great responsibility and putting yourself in a very false position by not making an absolutely clean breast of all you know. If I have to call in the aid of the police you will find how seriously you are compromised.

Related Characters: Dr. John Watson (speaker), Jack Stapleton, Laura Lyons
Page Number: 354
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Chapter 12 Quotes

One cannot always have the success for which one hopes. An investigator needs facts, and not legends or rumors. It has not been a satisfactory case.

Related Characters: Sherlock Holmes (speaker), Dr. John Watson, Jack Stapleton
Page Number: 373
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Chapter 13  Quotes

Yes, it is an interesting instance of a throwback, which appears to be both physical and spiritual. A study of family portraits is enough to convert a man to the doctrine of reincarnation. The fellow is a Baskerville—that is evident.

Related Characters: Sherlock Holmes (speaker), Jack Stapleton
Page Number: 379
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Chapter 14 Quotes

I said it in London, Watson, and I say it again now, that never have we helped to hunt down a more dangerous man than he who is lying yonder.

Related Characters: Sherlock Holmes (speaker), Dr. John Watson, Jack Stapleton
Page Number: 396
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Jack Stapleton Quotes in The Hound of the Baskervilles

The The Hound of the Baskervilles quotes below are all either spoken by Jack Stapleton or refer to Jack Stapleton. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Chapter 4  Quotes

We are dealing with a clever man, Watson.

Related Characters: Sherlock Holmes (speaker), Dr. John Watson, Jack Stapleton
Page Number: 283
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Chapter 5 Quotes

It might interest you to know that you have been driving Mr. Sherlock Holmes.

Related Characters: Jack Stapleton (speaker), Sherlock Holmes, Sir Henry Baskerville
Page Number: 294
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Chapter 7 Quotes

The Mire has him. Two in two days, and many more, perhaps, for they get in the way of going there in the dry weather, and never know the difference until the Mire has them in its clutch. It’s a bad place, the great Grimpen Mire.

Related Characters: Jack Stapleton (speaker), Dr. John Watson
Page Number: 311
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Chapter 8  Quotes

He is much attached to her, no doubt, and would lead a lonely life without her, but it would seem the height of selfishness, if he were to stand in the way of her making so brilliant a marriage.

Related Characters: Dr. John Watson (speaker), Sir Henry Baskerville, Jack Stapleton, Beryl Stapleton
Page Number: 320
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Chapter 11 Quotes

Mrs. Lyons […] you are taking a very great responsibility and putting yourself in a very false position by not making an absolutely clean breast of all you know. If I have to call in the aid of the police you will find how seriously you are compromised.

Related Characters: Dr. John Watson (speaker), Jack Stapleton, Laura Lyons
Page Number: 354
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Chapter 12 Quotes

One cannot always have the success for which one hopes. An investigator needs facts, and not legends or rumors. It has not been a satisfactory case.

Related Characters: Sherlock Holmes (speaker), Dr. John Watson, Jack Stapleton
Page Number: 373
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Chapter 13  Quotes

Yes, it is an interesting instance of a throwback, which appears to be both physical and spiritual. A study of family portraits is enough to convert a man to the doctrine of reincarnation. The fellow is a Baskerville—that is evident.

Related Characters: Sherlock Holmes (speaker), Jack Stapleton
Page Number: 379
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Chapter 14 Quotes

I said it in London, Watson, and I say it again now, that never have we helped to hunt down a more dangerous man than he who is lying yonder.

Related Characters: Sherlock Holmes (speaker), Dr. John Watson, Jack Stapleton
Page Number: 396
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