Адаптированный текст рассказа А. К. Дойла «Обряд дома Месгрейвов» на английском языке. Учебное пособие - страница 5

00:07:01 – > for during my last years at the University there was a good deal of talk there about myself and my methods.

00:07:07 – > The third of these cases was that of the Musgrave Ritual,

00:07:11 – > and it is to the interest which was aroused by that singular chain of events,

00:07:16 – > and the large issues which proved to be at stake,

00:07:19 – > that I trace my first stride towards the position which I now hold.

00:07:24 – > «Reginald Musgrave had been in the same college as myself,

00:07:28 – > and I had some slight acquaintance with him.

00:07:30 – > He was not generally popular among the undergraduates,

00:07:34 – > though it always seemed to me that what was set down as pride was really an attempt to cover extreme natural diffidence.

00:07:41 – > In appearance he was a man of exceedingly aristocratic type, thin,

00:07:46 – > high-nosed, and large-eyed, with languid and yet courtly manners.

00:07:51 – > He was indeed a scion of one of the very oldest families in the kingdom,

00:07:55 – > though his branch was a cadet one which had separated from the northern Musgraves some time in the sixteenth century,

00:08:02 – > and had established itself in western Sussex,

00:08:06 – > where the Manor House of Hurlstone is perhaps the oldest inhabited building in the county.

00:08:11 – > Something of his birthplace seemed to cling to the man,

00:08:15 – > and I never looked at his pale, keen face or the poise of his head

00:08:19 – > without associating him with grey archways and mullioned windows

00:08:24 – > and all the venerable wreckage of a feudal keep.

00:08:28 – > Once or twice we drifted into talk,

00:08:31 – > and I can remember that more than once he expressed a keen interest in my methods of observation and inference.

00:08:39 – > «For four years I had seen nothing of him until one morning he walked into my room in Montague Street.

00:08:45 – > He had changed little, was dressed like a young man of fashion—

00:08:48 – > he was always a bit of a dandy – and preserved the same quiet, suave manner which had formerly distinguished him.

00:08:55 – > ««How has all gone with you Musgrave?» I asked, after we had cordially shaken hands.

00:09:01 – > ««You probably heard of my poor father’s death,» said he; «he was carried off about two years ago.