福尔摩斯探案全集哪个版本最好 福尔摩斯探案经典:《恐怖谷》第7章Part2

福尔摩斯探案经典:《恐怖谷》第7章Part2  

"You know my methods of work
Mr. Mac. But I will hold it back for the shortest time possible. I only wish to verify my details in one way
which can very readily be done
and then I make my bow and return to London
leaving my results entirely at your service. I owe you too much to act otherwise; for in all my experience I cannot recall any more singular and interesting study."
"This is clean beyond me
Mr. Holmes. We saw you when we returned from Tunbridge Wells last night
and you were in general agreement with our results. What has happened since then to give you a pletely new idea of the case?"
"Well
since you ask me
I spent
as I told you that I would
some hours last night at the Manor House."
"Well
what happened?"
"Ah
I can only give you a very general answer to that for the moment. By the way
I have been reading a short but clear and interesting account of the old building
purchasable at the modest sum of one penny from the local tobacconist."Here Holmes drew a small tract
embellished with a rude engraving of the ancient Manor House
from his waistcoat pocket.
"It immensely adds to the zest of an investigation
my dear Mr. Mac
when one is in conscious sympathy with the historical atmosphere of one's surroundings. Don't look so impatient; for I assure you that even so bald an account as this raises some sort of picture of the past in one's mind. Permit me to give you a sample. 'Erected in the fifth year of the reign of James I
and standing upon the site of a much older building
the Manor House of Birlstone presents one of the finest surviving examples of the moated Jacobean residence--'"
"You are making fools of us
Mr. Holmes!"
"Tut
tut
Mr. Mac!--the first sign of temper I have detected in you. Well
I won't read it verbatim
since you feel so strongly upon the subject. But when I tell you that there is some account of the taking of the place by a parliamentary colonel in 1644
of the concealment of Charles for several days in the course of the Civil War
and finally of a visit there by the second Gee
you will admit that there are various associations of interest connected with this ancient house."
"I don't doubt it
Mr. Holmes; but that is no business of ours."