0:00 THE ADVENTURES OF SHERLOCK HOLMES
0:22 by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
0:24 ADVENTURE 1 A SCANDAL IN BOHEMIA the adventures of sherlock holmes by sir arthur conan doyle adventure i a scandal in bohemia sections one through three section one
0:33 to sherlock holmes she is always the woman i have seldom heard him mention her under any other name in her eyes she eclipses and predominates the whole of her sex.
0:48 It was not that he felt any emotion akin to love for Irene Adler. All emotions, and that one
0:57 particularly, were abhorrent to his cold, precise, but admirably balanced mind.
1:13 He was, I take it, the most perfect reasoning and observing machine that the world has seen.
1:18 But as a lover, he would have placed himself in a false position. He never spoke of the softer passions, save with a jibe and a sneer, they were admirable things for the observer,
1:28 excellent for drawing the veil from men's motives and actions. But for the trained reasoner to admit
1:36 such intrusions into his own delicate and finely adjusted temperament was to introduce a distracting factor which might throw a doubt on all his mental
1:48 results. Grit in a sensitive instrument, or a crack in one of his own high-powered lenses,
1:58 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 from each other, my own complete happiness and the home-centered interests which rise
2:27 up around the man who first finds himself master of his own establishment, were sufficient
2:34 to absorb all my attentions, while Holmes, who loathed every form of society with his
2:41 whole bohemian soul, remained in our lodgings in Baker Street.
2:49 Buried among his old books and altering from week to week between cocaine and ambition,
2:57 the drowsiness of the drug and the fierce energy of his own keen nature,
3:02 he was still, as ever, deeply attracted by the study of crime, and
3:08 occupied his immense faculties and extraordinary powers of observation in following out these clues,
3:16 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
3:32 the case of the Trepoff murder, of his clearing up of the singular tragedy of the Atkinson
3:40 brothers at Tricomalee, and finally of the mission which he had accomplished so delicately
3:48 and successfully for the reigning family of Holland.
3:53 Beyond the signs of his activity, however, which I merely shared with all the readers
3:59 of the daily press, I knew little of my former friend and companion. One night, it was on the 20th of
4:09 March, 1888, I was returning from a journey to a patient, for I had now returned to civil practice,
4:18 when my way led me through Baker Street. As I passed the well-remembered door, which must always be associated
4:28 in my mind with my woeing, and with the dark incidents of the Stokey and Scarlet, I was seized
4:35 with a keen desire to see Holmes again, and to know how he was employing his extraordinary powers. His rooms were brilliantly lit, and even as I looked up
4:48 I saw his tall spare figure pass twice in a dark silhouette against the blind.
4:56 He was pacing the room, swiftly, eagerly, with his head sunk upon his chest and his hands clasped behind him to me who knew his every mood and habit his attitude and manner told their own story caught upon the scent of some new problem. I rang the bell, and was shown up to the chamber,
5:27 which had formerly been in part my own.
5:30 His manner was not effusive.
5:34 It seldom was, but he was glad, I think, to see me.
5:38 With hardly a word spoken, but with a kindly eye,
5:42 he waved me an armchair, threw across his case of cigars, and indicated
5:48 a spirit case and a gasagene in the corner. Then he stood before the fire and looked me over in his
5:57 singular introspective fashion. Wetlock suits you, he remarked. I think think watson that you have put on seven and a half pounds since i saw you seven i answered
6:12 indeed i should have thought a little more just a trifle more i fancy watson and in practice again i observe you did not tell me that you intended to go into Hannes.
6:26 Then how do you know?
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