"It was not that he ever betrayed any sign of love for Irene Adler, all emotion such as that one are abhorrent to his cold precise mind, he only looks on woman pathologically, as the sources of motive, clues, and yet he keeps here photograph apart, locked up, there is but one woman to him, the beautiful Irene Adler of subjective and questionable memory"

"Only a German is so uncourteous with his verbs."