HOW can people say Sherlock Holmes has no heart?! In The Man With the Twisted Lip he feels so bad to go back to Mrs. St. Claire because he doesn't have any news for her. And when he finally finds Neville St. Claire who is very much ashamed for having posed as a beggar ("You would have done better to have trusted your wife." - "It was not the wife, it was the children. God help me, I would not have them ashamed of their father."), Holmes "sat down beside him on the couch an patted him kindly on the shoulder", and then he gives him advise how to resolve the matter best! That was so ... almost unnecessary kind! St. Claire didn't mean any harm, but he frightened his wife and his business was a bit fraudulent. Holmes is very compassionate here, and he has a lot of fun, because instead of simply telling the police the solution he goes there with a giant sponge to give the "suspect" a wash himself. I bet he was giggeling like mad all the way there and back. XD
Bonus: He called himself "one of the most absolute fools in Europe", "deserv[ing] to be kicked from here to Charing Cross" because it took him so long to solve the case.
Sometimes...when life seems to be extra shitty...I remind myself that Jeff Bridges beat cancer, Covid came close to killing during his treatments, and yet somehow, he's still on this side of the ground.