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She could trust her own guardianship, but she could not tell what indirect or political influence might be brought to bear upon a business man. Besides, remember that she had resolved to use it within a few days. It must be where she can lay her hands upon it. It must be in her own house.' 'But it has twice been burgled.' 'Pshaw!
Summary. Soon after his first marriage, Dr. John Watson leaves the Baker Street flat that he has shared with Sherlock Holmes and returns to private medical practice. In the course of his calls, he ...
Summary. Analysis. Doctor John Watson declares that his friend and former housemate, Sherlock Holmes, is a man with a “cold, precise, but admirably balanced mind,” especially when it comes to the topic of women and emotional attachments. Yet despite his abhorrence of anything akin to “love,” Watson recalls, there is one woman, Irene ...
Oct 3, 2024 · In his eyes she eclipses and predominates the whole of her sex. To Holmes, then, Irene appears unique; in his eyes she holds a special place among women in her rare combination of beauty, passion ...
As Adler’s carriage pulls up to her home, the men in the street push past each other to open her door, hoping for a tip. Holmes jumps in as if to protect Adler and he falls to the ground. Adler runs up her front steps and then turns back to see Holmes lying bloody and injured in the street. People begin to surround him to help.
Pretending to have been injured in a fight in front of Adler, he gains entrance to her house; then, at his signal, Watson throws in a smoke-rocket and yells that there is a fire. In the confusion, Adler rushes to secure the photograph, as Holmes had surmised she would, inadvertently revealing its location to the detective.
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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 ...
