Arthur Conan Doyle · 1892
Twelve cases of Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson, from A Scandal in Bohemia to The Copper Beeches. Read The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle…
To Sherlock Holmes she is always the woman. I have seldom heard him mention her under any other name. In his eyes she eclipses and predominates the whole of her sex. It was not that he felt any emotion akin to love for Irene Adler. All emotions, and that one particularly, were abhorrent to his cold, precise but admirably balanced mind. He was, I take it, the most perfect reasoning and observing machine that the world has seen, but as a lover he would have placed himself in a false position. He never spoke of the softer passions, save with a gibe and a sneer. They were admirable things for…
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