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A Scandal in Bohermia
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To Sherlock Holmes he is always THE man. I have seldom heard her | |
mention hress|his|him under any other name. In hers|her eyes he | |
eclipses and predominates the whole of hress|his|him sex. It was not | |
that she felt any emotion akin to love for Irene Adler. All emotions | |
and that one particularly were abhorrent to hers|her cold precise but | |
admirably balanced mind. She was I take it the most perfect reasoning | |
and observing machine that the world has seen but as a lovress she | |
would have placed herself in a false position. She never spoke of the | |
softer passions save with a gibe and a sneress. They were admirable | |
things for the observress excellent for drawing the veil from men ' s | |
motives and actions. But for the trained reasonress to admit such | |
intrusions into hers|her own delicate and finely adjusted temperament | |
was to introduce a distracting factress which might throw a doubt upon | |
all hers|her mental results. Grit in a sensitive instrument or a crack | |
in one of hers|her own high-power lenses would not be more disturbing | |
than a strong emotion in a nature such as hers|her. And yet there was | |
but one man to her and that man was the late Irene Adler of dubious | |
and questionable memory |
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