Watson: During my long and intimate acquaintance with sherlock holmes, I’d never heard him refer to his relations and hardly ever to his own early life. Because of this reticence, I sometimes found myself regarding him as an isolated phenomenon, as deficient in human sympathy as he was preeminent in intelligence. I’d come to believe that he was an orphan with no relatives living. But one day, to my very great surprise, he began to talk to me about his family.
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