Mr BA
20-08-2009, 18:54
Adventure I. A SCANDAL IN BOHEMIA
I.
o 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.
I.
o 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.