Holmes/Watson rec

[louiselux]

cimorene111 has written a rather wonderful Holmes/Watson story: For England, home and beauty

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[norah.livejournal.com]

Perhaps the great degree of my affection for Holmes is not laid explicitly before the reader in any of my published chronicles of him, as it is a personal matter, but I think it safe to say that it cannot be overstated. It has, on occasion, given me much pain, though those occasions were mercifully short-lived and far between.

I should not say it was difficult loving a man, or even discovering that I loved one, for I loved Holmes too dearly and had done so too long for it to seem like anything but the most natural thing in the world. It may have troubled me sometimes as something far different from what I had been brought up to and what British society dictated, but I fear the force of Holmes's genius is such as to remake the world immediately around him. Whether by his subtle design, or by some unconscious ability, people fell in with him, and fell before him--which is just what I did, beginning at the first of our acquaintance.

So I was drawn to him; so I was drawn along with him, to the country, to the basement of a bank, to Switzerland; so I was drawn at least some way into his mood, so that I could not be at ease when he was not, and so that I could not long be censorious in the face of his determined vivacity.

And so as I poured brandy into two glasses which I left upon the sideboard, and went into my room to find my red dressing gown, I could not but smile. I was fondly tolerant of his eccentricities, but I was moved to tenderness by them too, and it was this, my helpless susceptibility, which I found paradoxically troublesome. Could I, I wondered, trust my own judgment in Holmes's sphere? So well-done - thanks for the rec! I love cimorene's stuff anyway, but this is particularly nice.

[gloriana.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the rec - a very nice little story indeed. I haven't read any Cimorene before, so being told about a good author as well as a good story is much appreciated.

[louiselux.livejournal.com]

Glad I could provide for your fannish needs. *g*