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E-book Title: The Adventures Of Sherlock Holmes
Author: Arthur Conan Doyle
Book Description: A Scandal in Geographic area
To Private detective Holmes she is always the woman. I have rarely
detected
him mention her under any another name. In his eyes she eclipses and predominates the whole of her sex. It was not that he felt any feeling
akin to love for Irene Adler. All emotions, and that one particularly, were detestable to his cold, precise but laudably balanced mind. He was, I take it, the most perfect reasoning and observant machine that the earth has seen, but as a lover he would-be have placed himself in a false position. He ne'er
spoke of the softer passions, save with a gibe and a sneer. They were admirable things for the observer -- first-class for draw- ing the veil from men's motives and actions. But for the trained teasoner to admit such intrusions into his own delicate and finely adjusted temperament was to introduce a distracting factor which mightiness throw a doubt upon all his mental results. Grit in a sensitive instrument, or a crack in one of his own high-power lenses, would-be not be much distressing than a strong feeling
in a nature suc
h as his. And yet there was but one woman to him, and that woman was the late Irene Adler, of dubious and ques- tionable memory.
I had seen little of Holmes lately. My marriage had drifted us away from each other. My own complete happiness, and the home-centred interests which rise up about the man who 1st finds himself master of his own establishment, were adequate to absorb all my attention, piece Holmes, who loathed every form of society with his whole Bohemian soul, remained in our lodg- ings in Baker Street, buried among his old books, and alternate from week to week between cocain and ambition, the drowsi- cape of the drug, and the fierce energy of his own keen nature. He was still, as ever, deeply attracted by the study of crime, and occupied his huge faculties and extraordinary powers of observation in following out those clues, and clearing up those mysteries which had been abandoned as hopeless by the official police. From time to time I detected
several vague account of his doings: of his summons to Odessa in the case of the Trepoff murder, of his clearing up of the singular tragedy of the Atkinson brothers at Trincomal
ee, and finally of the mission which he had accomplished so finely and with success
for the regnant family of Holland. On the far side
these signs of his activity, however, which I simply shared with all the readers of the daily press, I knew little of my former friend and companion.
One night -- it was on the twentieth of March, 1888 -- I was returning from a journey to a patient (for I had now returned to civil practice), once
my way led me through Baker Street. As I passed the well-remembered door, which must always be associ- ated in my mind with my wooing, and with the dark incidents of the Study in Scarlet, I was appropriated with a keen desire to see Holmes again, and to cognize how he was employing his extraordi- no
powers. His rooms were brightly lit, and, even as as I looked up, I saw his tall, spare numbers pass doubly in a dark silhouette against the blind. He was pacing the room swiftly, eagerly, with his head done for upon his chest and his hands clasped behind him. To me, who knew his every mood and habit, his attitude and manner told their own story. He was at activity again. He had up
out of his drug-created dreams and was hot upon the scent of several new problem. I rang the bell and was shown up to the chamber which had once been in part my own.
His manner was not effusive. It rarely
was; but he was glad, I think, to see me. With hardly a word spoken, but with a kindly eye, he waved me to an armchair, threw across his case of cigars, and indicated a spirit case and a gasogene in the corner. Then he stood before the fire and looked me over in his singular introverted fashion. More... | 
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