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 Man with the Twisted Lip - Page 16 of 17 "I wrote my articles and thought little more of the matter until, some time later, I backed a bill for a friend and had a writ served upon me for 25 pounds. I was at my wit's end where to get the money, but a sudden idea came to me. I begged a fortnight's grace from the creditor, asked for a holiday from my employers, and spent the time in begging in the City under my disguise. In ten days I had the money and had paid the debt. "Well, you can imagine how hard it was to settle down to arduous work at 2 pounds a week when I knew that I could earn as much in a day by smearing my face with a little paint, laying my cap on the ground, and sitting still. It was a long fight between my pride and the money, but the dollars won at last, and I threw up reporting and sat day after day in the corner which I had first chosen, inspiring pity by my ghastly face and filling my pockets with coppers. Only one man knew my secret. He was the keeper of a low den in which I used to lodge in Swandam Lane, where I could every morning emerge as a squalid beggar and in the evenings transform myself into a well-dressed man about town. This fellow, a Lascar, was well paid by me for his rooms, so that I knew that my secret was safe in his possession. "Well, very soon I found that I was saving considerable sums of money. I do not mean that any beggar in the streets of London could earn 700 pounds a year--which is less than my average takings--but I had exceptional advantages in my power of making up, and also in a facility of repartee, which improved by practice and made me quite a recognized character in the City. All day a stream of pennies, varied by silver, poured in upon me, and it was a very bad day in which I failed to take 2 pounds. "As I grew richer I grew more ambitious, took a house in the country, and eventually married, without anyone having a suspicion as to my real occupation. My dear wife knew that I had business in the City. She little knew what. "Last Monday I had finished for the day and was dressing in my room above the opium den when I looked out of my window and saw, to my horror and astonishment, that my wife was standing in the street, with her eyes fixed full upon me. I gave a cry of surprise, threw up my arms to cover my face, and, rushing to my confidant, the Lascar, entreated him to prevent anyone from coming up to me. I heard her voice downstairs, but I knew that she could not ascend. Swiftly I threw off my clothes, pulled on those of a beggar, and put on my pigments and wig. Even a wife's eyes could not pierce so complete a disguise. But then it occurred to me that there might be a search in the room, and that the clothes might betray me. I threw open the window, reopening by my violence a small cut which I had inflicted upon myself in the bedroom that morning. Then I seized my coat, which was weighted by the coppers which I had just transferred to it from the leather bag in which I carried my takings. I hurled it out of the window, and it disappeared into the Thames. The other clothes would have followed, but at that moment there was a rush of constables up the stair, and a few minutes after I found, rather, I confess, to my relief, that instead of being identified as Mr. Neville St. Clair, I was arrested as his murderer. |
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공지 The Contents List & Link of Sherlock Holmes | joker |
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63 | A Case of Identity 신랑의 정체 - Page 02 | joker |
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62 | A Case of Identity 신랑의 정체 - Page 01 | joker |
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61 | Sherlock Holmes novels Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's fictional detective | joker |
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60 | The Red-Headed League 붉은 머리 연맹 - Page 17 | joker |
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59 | The Red-Headed League 붉은 머리 연맹 - Page 16 | joker |
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58 | The Red-Headed League 붉은 머리 연맹 - Page 15 | joker |
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57 | The Red-Headed League 붉은 머리 연맹 - Page 14 | joker |
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56 | The Red-Headed League 붉은 머리 연맹 - Page 13 | joker |
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55 | The Red-Headed League 붉은 머리 연맹 - Page 12 | joker |
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54 | The Red-Headed League 붉은 머리 연맹 - Page 11 | joker |
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53 | The Red-Headed League 붉은 머리 연맹 - Page 10 | joker |
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52 | The Red-Headed League 붉은 머리 연맹 - Page 09 | joker |
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51 | The Red-Headed League 붉은 머리 연맹 - Page 08 | joker |
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50 | The Red-Headed League 붉은 머리 연맹 - Page 07 | joker |
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49 | The Red-Headed League 붉은 머리 연맹 - Page 06 | joker |
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48 | The Red-Headed League 붉은 머리 연맹 - Page 05 | joker |
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47 | The Red-Headed League 붉은 머리 연맹 - Page 04 | joker |
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46 | The Red-Headed League 붉은 머리 연맹 - Page 03 | joker |
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45 | The Red-Headed League 붉은 머리 연맹 - Page 02 | joker |
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44 | The Red-Headed League 붉은 머리 연맹 - Page 01 | joker |
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43 | A Scandal in Bohemia 보헤미아 왕국의 스캔들 - Page 17 | joker |
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42 | A Scandal in Bohemia 보헤미아 왕국의 스캔들 - Page 16 | joker |
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41 | A Scandal in Bohemia 보헤미아 왕국의 스캔들 - Page 15 | joker |
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40 | A Scandal in Bohemia 보헤미아 왕국의 스캔들 - Page 14 | joker |
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39 | A Scandal in Bohemia 보헤미아 왕국의 스캔들 - Page 13 | joker |
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38 | A Scandal in Bohemia 보헤미아 왕국의 스캔들 - Page 12 | joker |
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37 | A Scandal in Bohemia 보헤미아 왕국의 스캔들 - Page 11 | joker |
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36 | A Scandal in Bohemia 보헤미아 왕국의 스캔들 - Page 10 | joker |
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35 | A Scandal in Bohemia 보헤미아 왕국의 스캔들 - Page 09 | joker |
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34 | A Scandal in Bohemia 보헤미아 왕국의 스캔들 - Page 08 | joker |
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33 | A Scandal in Bohemia 보헤미아 왕국의 스캔들 - Page 07 | joker |
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32 | A Scandal in Bohemia 보헤미아 왕국의 스캔들 - Page 06 | joker |
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31 | A Scandal in Bohemia 보헤미아 왕국의 스캔들 - Page 05 | joker |
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30 | A Scandal in Bohemia 보헤미아 왕국의 스캔들 - Page 04 | joker |
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29 | A Scandal in Bohemia 보헤미아 왕국의 스캔들 - Page 03 | joker |
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28 | A Scandal in Bohemia 보헤미아 왕국의 스캔들 - Page 02 | joker |
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27 | A Scandal in Bohemia 보헤미아 왕국의 스캔들 - Page 01 | joker |
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26 | The Sign of Four 네 개의 서명 Chapter 12 - The Strange Story of Jonathan ... | joker |
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25 | The Sign of Four 네 개의 서명 Chapter 11 - The Great Agra Treasure | joker |
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24 | The Sign of Four 네 개의 서명 Chapter 10 - The End of the Islander | joker |
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23 | The Sign of Four 네 개의 서명 Chapter 9 - A Break in the Chain | joker |
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22 | The Sign of Four 네 개의 서명 Chapter 8 - The Baker Street Irregulars | joker |
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21 | The Sign of Four 네 개의 서명 Chapter 7 - The Episode of the Barrel | joker |
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20 | The Sign of Four 네 개의 서명 Chapter 6 - Sherlock Holmes Gives a Demonstrat... | joker |
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19 | The Sign of Four 네 개의 서명 Chapter 5 - The Tragedy of Pondicherry Lodge | joker |
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18 | The Sign of Four 네 개의 서명 Chapter 4 - The Story of the Bald-Headed Ma... | joker |
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17 | The Sign of Four 네 개의 서명 Chapter 3 - In Quest of a Solution | joker |
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16 | The Sign of Four 네 개의 서명 Chapter 2 - The Statement of the Case | joker |
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15 | The Sign of Four 네 개의 서명 Chapter 1 - The Science of Deduction | joker |
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