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Full text: Japanese translation and original English

Holmes glances over the newspaper case Watson has chosen and reveals that he was involved in it himself. After answering Watson’s argument, he produces an old gold snuffbox. A large amethyst gleams in its lid, looking strangely out of place among Holmes’s modest possessions, and Watson cannot resist asking how his friend acquired it.

"Indeed, your example is an unfortunate one for your argument," said Holmes, taking the paper and glancing his eye down it.「実のところ、その例はきみの主張には都合が悪いよ」とホームズは言い、新聞を取ってざっと目を通した。
"This is the Dundas separation case, and, as it happens, I was engaged in clearing up some small points in connection with it.「これはダンダスの別居事件だ。たまたま私も関わって、これに関連するちょっとした点をいくつか明らかにした。
The husband was a teetotaler, there was no other woman, and the conduct complained of was that he had drifted into the habit of winding up every meal by taking out his false teeth and hurling them at his wife, which, you will allow, is not an action likely to occur to the imagination of the average story-teller.夫は絶対禁酒主義者で、ほかの女もいなかった。訴えられていた行為というのは、彼がいつしか、毎回の食事の締めくくりに入れ歯を外して妻に投げつける癖をつけてしまったことだった。これは、きみも認めるだろうが、普通の物語作家の想像には、まず浮かびそうもない行為だ。
Take a pinch of snuff, Doctor, and acknowledge that I have scored over you in your example."先生、嗅ぎ煙草をひとつまみどうだ。そして、きみ自身の挙げた例で私に一本取られたと認めたまえ」
He held out his snuffbox of old gold, with a great amethyst in the centre of the lid.彼は金製の古い嗅ぎ煙草入れを差し出した。ふたの中央には大きな紫水晶が付いていた。
Its splendour was in such contrast to his homely ways and simple life that I could not help commenting upon it.その豪華さは、彼の飾り気のない振る舞いや質素な暮らしとあまりに対照的で、私は思わず感想を口にした。
"Ah," said he, "I forgot that I had not seen you for some weeks.「ああ」と彼は言った。「何週間かきみに会っていなかったのを忘れていたよ。
It is a little souvenir from the King of Bohemia in return for my assistance in the case of the Irene Adler papers."これはボヘミア国王からのちょっとした記念の品だ。アイリーン・アドラーの書類の件で力を貸したお礼にね」