Sherlock about Mycroft (in "The Adventure of the Bruce-Partington Plans"): "You are right in thinking that he under the British government. You would also be right in a sense if you said that occasionally he IS the British government.
Mycroft draws four hundred and fifty pounds a year, remains a subordinate, has no ambitions of any kind, will receive neither honour nor title, but remains the most indispensable man in the country.
...His position is unique. He has made it for himself. There has never been anything like it before, nor will be again. He has the tidiest and most orderly brain, with...
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