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To Private detective Holmes she is always the woman. I have rarely detected him mention her under any another name. In his eyes she eclipses and predominates the whole of her sex. It was not that he felt any feeling akin to love for Irene Adler. All emotions, and that one particularly, were detestable to his cold, precise but laudably balanced mind. He was, I take it, the most perfect reasoning and observant machine that the earth has seen, but as a lover he would be have placed himself in a false position. He ne er spoke of the softer passions, save with a gibe and a sneer. They were admirable things for the observer -- first class for draw- ing the veil from men's motives and actions. But for the trained teasoner to admit such intrusions into his own delicate