... The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE 1891 1892 DjVu Editions Copyright c 2001 by Global Langu... ... The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE 1891 1892 DjVu Editions Copyright c 2001 by Global Language Re... ...rved. Based on issues of The Strand July 1891 through June 1892. ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE Contents A Scandal in Bohemia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ... .... 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 s... ...le 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 intere... ...ation as I could desire about Miss Adler, to say nothing of half a dozen other people in the neighbourhood in whom I was not in the least interested, ... ...that. When you raise your cry of fire, it will be taken up by quite a number of people. You may then walk to the end of the street, and I will rejoin y... ...s. Now, look at that third name. Just read it out to me.” “Mrs. Oakshott, 117, Brixton Road — 249,” read Holmes. “Quite so. Now turn that up in the le... ...ger.” Holmes turned to the page indicated. “Here you are, ‘Mrs. Oakshott, 117, Brixton Road, egg and poultry supplier’.” “Now, then, what’s the last e...

...ion. 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 r...