The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (福尔摩斯探案集)

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
This is a public domain book converted by anonymous volunteers and you may find it for free on the web.This work is respectfully inscribed by the author. I. A Scandal in Bohemia I. 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—excelle…