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The Project Gutenberg eBook of The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes |
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Title: The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes |
Author: Arthur Conan Doyle |
Release date: March 1, 1999 [eBook #1661] |
Most recently updated: October 10, 2023 |
Language: English |
Credits: an anonymous Project Gutenberg volunteer and Jose Menendez |
*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE ADVENTURES OF SHERLOCK HOLMES *** |
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes |
by Arthur Conan Doyle |
Contents |
I. A Scandal in Bohemia |
II. The Red-Headed League |
III. A Case of Identity |
IV. The Boscombe Valley Mystery |
V. The Five Orange Pips |
VI. The Man with the Twisted Lip |
VII. The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle |
VIII. The Adventure of the Speckled Band |
IX. The Adventure of the Engineer’s Thumb |
X. The Adventure of the Noble Bachelor |
XI. The Adventure of the Beryl Coronet |
XII. The Adventure of the Copper Beeches |
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—excellent for |
drawing the veil from men’s motives and actions. But for the trained |
reasoner 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. |
I had seen little of Holmes lately. My marriage had drifted us away |
from each other. My own complete happiness, and the home-centred |
interests which rise up around the man who first finds himself master |
of his own establishment, were sufficient to absorb all my attention, |
while Holmes, who loathed every form of society with his whole Bohemian |
soul, remained in our lodgings in Baker Street, buried among his old |
books, and alternating from week to week between cocaine and ambition, |
the drowsiness of the drug, and the fierce energy of his own keen |
nature. He was still, as ever, deeply attracted by the study of crime, |
and occupied his immense faculties and extraordinary powers of |
observation in following out those clues, and clearing up those |
mysteries which had been abandoned as hopeless by the official police. |
From time to time I heard some vague account of his doings: of his |
summons to Odessa in the case of the Trepoff murder, of his clearing up |
of the singular tragedy of the Atkinson brothers at Trincomalee, and |
finally of the mission which he had accomplished so delicately and |
successfully for the reigning family of Holland. Beyond these signs of |
his activity, however, which I merely shared with all the readers of |
the daily press, I knew little of my former friend and companion. |
One night—it was on the twentieth of March, 1888—I was returning from a |
journey to a patient (for I had now returned to civil practice), when |
my way led me through Baker Street. As I passed the well-remembered |
door, which must always be associated in my mind with my wooing, and |
with the dark incidents of the Study in Scarlet, I was seized with a |
keen desire to see Holmes again, and to know how he was employing his |
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