아서 코난 도일 (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1859-1930)
■ 셜록 홈즈 단편집 1892.Adventures, 1894.Memoirs , ■ 셜록 홈즈 장편집 1887.A Study in Scarlet, 1890.The Sign of Four, 1902.The Hound of the Baskervilles,
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The Adventure of the Engineer's Thumb - Page 09 of 16 "I glanced at the books upon the table, and in spite of my ignorance of German I could see that two of them were treatises on science, the others being volumes of poetry. Then I walked across to the window, hoping that I might catch some glimpse of the country-side, but an oak shutter, heavily barred, was folded across it. It was a wonderfully silent house. There was an old clock ticking loudly somewhere in the passage, but otherwise everything was deadly still. A vague feeling of uneasiness began to steal over me. Who were these German people, and what were they doing living in this strange, out-of-the-way place? And where was the place? I was ten miles or so from Eyford, that was all I knew, but whether north, south, east, or west I had no idea. For that matter, Reading, and possibly other large towns, were within that radius, so the place might not be so secluded, after all. Yet it was quite certain, from the absolute stillness, that we were in the country. I paced up and down the room, humming a tune under my breath to keep up my spirits and feeling that I was thoroughly earning my fifty-guinea fee. "Suddenly, without any preliminary sound in the midst of the utter stillness, the door of my room swung slowly open. The woman was standing in the aperture, the darkness of the hall behind her, the yellow light from my lamp beating upon her eager and beautiful face. I could see at a glance that she was sick with fear, and the sight sent a chill to my own heart. She held up one shaking finger to warn me to be silent, and she shot a few whispered words of broken English at me, her eyes glancing back, like those of a frightened horse, into the gloom behind her. "'I would go,' said she, trying hard, as it seemed to me, to speak calmly; 'I would go. I should not stay here. There is no good for you to do.' "'But, madam,' said I, 'I have not yet done what I came for. I cannot possibly leave until I have seen the machine.' "'It is not worth your while to wait,' she went on. 'You can pass through the door; no one hinders.' And then, seeing that I smiled and shook my head, she suddenly threw aside her constraint and made a step forward, with her hands wrung together. 'For the love of Heaven!' she whispered, 'get away from here before it is too late!' "But I am somewhat headstrong by nature, and the more ready to engage in an affair when there is some obstacle in the way. I thought of my fifty-guinea fee, of my wearisome journey, and of the unpleasant night which seemed to be before me. Was it all to go for nothing? Why should I slink away without having carried out my commission, and without the payment which was my due? This woman might, for all I knew, be a monomaniac. With a stout bearing, therefore, though her manner had shaken me more than I cared to confess, I still shook my head and declared my intention of remaining where I was. She was about to renew her entreaties when a door slammed overhead, and the sound of several footsteps was heard upon the stairs. She listened for an instant, threw up her hands with a despairing gesture, and vanished as suddenly and as noiselessly as she had come. |
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The Adventure of the Engineer's Thumb - Page 01 of 16 Of all the problems which have been submitted to my friend, Mr. Sherlock Holmes, for solution during the years of our intimacy, there were only two ...
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The Adventure of the Engineer's Thumb - Page 02 of 16 "I am sorry to knock you up so early, Doctor," said he, "but I have had a very serious accident during the night. I came in by train this morning, an...
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The Adventure of the Engineer's Thumb - Page 03 of 16 "How is that?" I asked when I had finished. "Capital! Between your brandy and your bandage, I feel a new man. I was very weak, but I have had a good...
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The Adventure of the Engineer's Thumb - Page 04 of 16 Holmes sat in his big armchair with the weary, heavy-lidded expression which veiled his keen and eager nature, while I sat opposite to him, and we li...
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The Adventure of the Engineer's Thumb - Page 05 of 16 "'Undoubtedly so. But you will find that all I say is really to the point. I have a professional commission for you, but absolute secrecy is quite esse...
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The Adventure of the Engineer's Thumb - Page 06 of 16 "'That is very awkward. Could I not come at some more convenient hour?' "'We have judged it best that you should come late. It is to recompense you f...
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The Adventure of the Engineer's Thumb - Page 07 of 16 "'I quite follow you,' said I. 'The only point which I could not quite understand was what use you could make of a hydraulic press in excavating fulle...
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The Adventure of the Engineer's Thumb - Page 08 of 16 "Away we went then, and we drove for at least an hour. Colonel Lysander Stark had said that it was only seven miles, but I should think, from the ...
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The Adventure of the Engineer's Thumb - Page 09 of 16 "I glanced at the books upon the table, and in spite of my ignorance of German I could see that two of them were treatises on science, the others...
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The Adventure of the Engineer's Thumb - Page 10 of 16 "The newcomers were Colonel Lysander Stark and a short thick man with a chinchilla beard growing out of the creases of his double chin, who was intr...
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The Adventure of the Engineer's Thumb - Page 11 of 16 "'What are you doing there?' he asked. "I felt angry at having been tricked by so elaborate a story as that which he had told me. 'I was admiring you...
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The Adventure of the Engineer's Thumb - Page 12 of 16 "I was recalled to myself by a frantic plucking at my wrist, and I found myself lying upon the stone floor of a narrow corridor, while a woman bent ...
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The Adventure of the Engineer's Thumb - Page 13 of 16 "How long I remained unconscious I cannot tell. It must have been a very long time, for the moon had sunk, and a bright morning was breaking when I ...
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The Adventure of the Engineer's Thumb - Page 14 of 16 "There you are," said he. "That circle is drawn at a radius of ten miles from the village. The place we want must be somewhere near that line. You sai...
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The Adventure of the Engineer's Thumb - Page 15 of 16 But the inspector was mistaken, for those criminals were not destined to fall into the hands of justice. As we rolled into Eyford Station we saw a ...
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The Adventure of the Engineer's Thumb - Page 16 of 16 How our hydraulic engineer had been conveyed from the garden to the spot where he recovered his senses might have remained forever a mystery were i...
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