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Tonight, we'll be reading the opening to the Adventures of Sherlock Holmes,

written by Arthur Conan Doyle in 1892. The Adventures are a collection of 12 short stories

starting with a scandal in Bohemia. In general, the stories in the

Adventures of Sherlock Holmes identify and try to correct injustices.

Holmes is portrayed as offering a new, fairer sense of justice. Let's get cozy. Close your eyes. Relax your body into the softness of your bed.

Now, take a 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 never placed himself in a false position.

He never spoke of the softer passions, save with a jibe and a sneer.

There were admirable things for the observer. a jibe and a sneer.

There 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

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