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Carte Blanche
The conversation turns to expenses. The client says there is nothing he would spare to recover the item, leaving Holmes complete freedom over what he spends. He then shows that he has brought money for immediate costs. Holmes tears a sheet from his notebook and writes out a receipt for him.
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The conversation turns to expenses. The client says there is nothing he would spare to recover the item, leaving Holmes complete freedom over what he spends. He then shows that he has brought money for immediate costs. Holmes tears a sheet from his notebook and writes out a receipt for him.
"Then, as to money?"「では、費用のほうは？」
"You have carte blanche."「いくら使っても構わない」
"Absolutely?"「本当にいくらでも？」
"I tell you that I would give one of the provinces of my kingdom to have that photograph."「あの写真が手に入るなら、王国の州を一つ差し出してもよいと言っているのだ」
"And for present expenses?"「当座の費用はいかがでしょう」
The King took a heavy chamois leather bag from under his cloak and laid it on the table.国王はマントの下から重いセーム革の袋を取り出し、テーブルの上に置いた。
"There are three hundred pounds in gold and seven hundred in notes," he said.「金貨で三百ポンド、紙幣で七百ポンドある」と彼は言った。
Holmes scribbled a receipt upon a sheet of his note-book and handed it to him.ホームズは手帳の一枚に受取書を走り書きして、国王に手渡した。