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The Adventures Of Sherlock Holmes

by: Arthur Conan Doyle

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Binding: Hardcover
EAN: 9781421808079
ISBN: 1421808072
Item Dimensions: 94850127550
Label: 1st World Library - Literary Society
Languages: EnglishUnknownEnglishOriginal LanguageEnglishPublished
Manufacturer: 1st World Library - Literary Society
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 348
Publication Date: February 20, 2006
Publisher: 1st World Library - Literary Society
Studio: 1st World Library - Literary Society

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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 the observer-excellent for drawing 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 might 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 not be more disturbing than a strong emotion in a nature such as his. And yet there was but one woman to him, and that woman was the late Irene Adler, of dubious and questionable memory.

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