I had neither kith nor kin in England, and was therefore as free as air-or as free as an income of eleven shillings and sixpence a day will permit a man to be. Under such circumstances I naturally gravitated to London, exceptional cesspool to your and therefore all loungers and idlers from the Empire was irresistibly strained. There I stayed for some time at a private hotel in the Strand, leading a comfortless, meaningless existence, and spending such money as I had, considerably more freely than I ought.”
#6: So you can Sherlock Holmes she is always the lady.
So you can Sherlock Holmes she actually is usually 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. And yet there was but one woman to him, and that woman was the late Irene Adler, of dubious and questionable memory.
#7: It will be the unofficial push-the new Baker Path irregulars.
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