Адаптированный текст рассказа А. К. Дойла «Обряд дома Месгрейвов» на английском языке. Учебное пособие - страница 4

00:04:54 – > Sherlock Holmes picked them up one by one, and laid them along the edge of the table.

00:04:59 – > Then he reseated himself in his chair and looked them over with a gleam of satisfaction in his eyes.

00:05:06 – > «These,» said he,

00:05:08 – > «are all that I have left to remind me of the adventure of the Musgrave Ritual.»

00:05:14 – > I had heard him mention the case more than once, though I had never been able to gather the details.

00:05:19 – > «I should be so glad,» said I, «if you would give me an account of it.»

00:05:23 – > «And leave the litter as it is?»

00:05:26 – > he cried, mischievously.

00:05:28 – > «Your tidiness won’t bear much strain after all, Watson.

00:05:32 – > But I should be glad that you should add this case to your annals,

00:05:36 – > for there are points in it which make it quite unique in the criminal records of this or, I believe, of any other country.

00:05:44 – > A collection of my trifling achievements would certainly be incomplete which contained no account of this very singular business.

00:05:53 – > «You may remember how the affair of the Gloria Scott, and my conversation with the unhappy man whose fate I told you of,

00:06:00 – > first turned my attention in the direction of the profession which has become my life’s work.

00:06:06 – > You see me now when my name has become known far and wide,

00:06:10 – > and when I am generally recognised both by the public

00:06:13 – > and by the official force as being a final court of appeal in doubtful cases.

00:06:19 – > Even when you knew me first, at the time of the affair which you have commemorated in «A Study in Scarlet,»

00:06:26 – > I had already established a considerable, though not a very lucrative, connection.

00:06:31 – > You can hardly realize, then, how difficult I found it at first,

00:06:35 – > and how long I had to wait before I succeeded in making any headway.

00:06:40 – > «When I first came up to London I had rooms in Montague Street,

00:06:44 – > just round the corner from the British Museum,

00:06:46 – > and there I waited, filling in my too abundant leisure time

00:06:50 – > by studying all those branches of science which might make me more efficient.

00:06:55 – > Now and again cases came in my way, principally through the introduction of old fellow-students,