It Was Not That He ______ Any Emotion Akin To Love For Irene Adler; I Do Not Know Whether Hewas Seized With Compunction At That Moment Forthe Part He Was Playing - But I Know That I Never ______more Heartily Ashamed Of Myself In My Life Thanwhen I Saw The Beautiful Creature Against Whom Iwas Conspiring - Or The Grace And Kindliness Withwhich She Waited Upon The Injured Man;' He Tooka Step Backward - Cocked His Head On One Side - Andgazed At My Hair Until I ______ Quite Bashful; Then It Lengthened Out Until It Becamea Yellow Line - And Then - Without Any Warning Orsound - A Gash Seemed To Open And A Hand Appeared - A White - Almost Womanly Hand - Which ______ About Inthe Centre Of The Little Area Of Light; I Walked Round The Corner - Saw Thecity And Suburban Bank Abutted On Our Friend'spremises - And ______ That I Had Solved My Problem; He Said That If They Were Sent To Theoffice He Would Be Chaffed By All The Other Clerksabout Having Letters From A Lady - So I Offered Totypewrite Them - Like He Did His - But He Wouldn'thave That - For He Said That When I Wrote Them Theyseemed To Come From Me - But When They Were Typewritten He Always ______ That The Machine Had Comebetween Us;"I Had Had So Many Reasons To Believe In Myfriend's Subtle Powers Of Reasoning And Extraordinary Energy In Action That I ______ That He Must Havesome Solid Grounds For The Assured And Easy Demeanour With Which He Treated The Singular Mystery Which He Had Been Called Upon To Fathom;Once Only Had I Known Him To Fail - In The Caseof The King Of Bohemia And Of The Irene Adlerphotograph; But When I Looked Back To The Weirdbusiness Of The Sign Of Four - And The Extraordinarycircumstances Connected With The Study In Scarlet - I ______ That It Would Be A Strange Tangle Indeed Whichhe Could Not Unravel;""Nothing?""To Tell The Truth" - he Sank His Face Into Histhin - White Hands - "I Have ______ Helpless; I Have ______like One Of Those Poor Rabbits When The Snake Iswrithing Towards It; I ______ - However - That When Whitney Wasonce Confined In The Cab My Mission Was Practically Accomplished; And For The Rest - I Could Notwish Anything Better Than To Be Associated With Myfriend In One Of Those Singular Adventures Whichwere The Normal Condition Of His Existence; As I Passed The Tall Manwho Sat By The Brazier I ______ A Sudden Pluck At Myskirt - And A Low Voice Whispered - "Walk Past Me - And Then Look Back At Me; On The Other Hand - He Has Endeavoured To Conceal Some Of These Stainsupon The ______ By Daubing Them With Ink - Which Is Asign That He Has Not Entirely Lost His Self-respect; What Can You Gather Fromthis Old Battered ______?""Here Is My Lens; Now - Then: 'found At The Corner Of Goodge Street - Agoose And A Black ______ Hat; The Bird Gave A Gulp - And I ______ The Stonepass Along Its Gullet And Down Into Its Crop;I Confess That I ______ Easier In My Mind When - Afterfollowing Holmes' Example And Slipping Off Myshoes - I Found Myself Inside The Bedroom; "But I Have ______another Man Since The Doctor Bandaged Me - And Ithink That Your Breakfast Has Completed The Cure; I Fear That Youhave ______ The Draught;'" 'on The Contrary - ' Said I - 'i Opened The Doormyself Because I ______ The Room To Be A Little Close;"I ______ Angry At Having Been Tricked By So Elaborate A Story As That Which He Had Told Me; Simon Cameto 'frisco - And We Came To London - And A Marriagewas Arranged - And Pa Was Very Pleased - But I ______all The Time That No Man On This Earth Would Evertake The Place In My Heart That Had Been Given Tomy Poor Frank; But You Mayimagine What I ______ When - Just As I Came To The Altarrails - I Glanced Back And Saw Frank Standing Andlooking At Me Out Of The First Pew;""Then We Had A Talk As To What We Shoulddo - And Frank Was All For Openness - But I Was Soashamed Of It All That I ______ As If I Should Like Tovanish Away And Never See Any Of Them Again - justsending A Line To Pa - Perhaps - To Show Him That Iwas Alive;'"When Evening Came I ______ That It Would Be Animprudence To Leave So Precious A Thing In The Officebehind Me; I Confess That The Guilt Of The Banker's Son Appeared Tome To Be As Obvious As It Did To His Unhappy Father - But Still I Had Such Faith In Holmes' Judgment Thati ______ That There Must Be Some Grounds For Hope Aslong As He Was Dissatisfied With The Accepted Explanation;"You Then Roused His Anger By Calling Himnames At A Moment When He ______ That He Had Deserved Your Warmest Thanks; I Should Feel So Much Stronger If I ______ Thatyou Were At The Back Of Me; I Returnedthe Strange Hair To The Drawer - And I Said Nothingof The Matter To The Rucastles As I ______ That I Had Putmyself In The Wrong By Opening A Drawer Whichthey Had Locked

A collection of twelve short stories, published in 1892, by Arthur Conan Doyle, featuring his fictional detective Sherlock Holmes. I The stories are not in chronological order, and the only characters common to all twelve are Holmes and Dr. Watson. The stories are related in first-person narrative from Watson's point of view. In general the stories in The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes identify, and try to correct, social injustices. Holmes is portrayed as offering a new, fairer sense of justice.