O, greatest of shame! / O, shunless disgrace! / God's distress! God's distress! / Endless regret! Infinite grief! / The saddest am I among all men!

Neither sharks for a cup or a reckoning.

One reply to this is to say that we should count Holmes might not have been a detective as true just in case each Holmesish individual has a counterpart that is not a detective.

I could not, indeed, so strangely misreason as to suppose that sensual indulgence produced superior intelect; but I supposed that in some instances superior intellect might cause sensual indulgence.