よみうち英語Read the classics by typingNotes Scene 31: The Following Evening
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After finishing his medical duties, Watson reaches Baker Street shortly before six. He finds that Holmes has devoted the day to a chemical experiment. When Watson asks whether he has solved it, Holmes teasingly answers with the name of the chemical substance instead of the case.
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Full text: original English and Japanese translation
A professional case of great gravity was engaging my own attention at the time, and the whole of next day I was busy at the bedside of the sufferer. It was not until close upon six o'clock that I found myself free and was able to spring into a hansom and drive to Baker Street, half afraid that I might be too late to assist at the dénouement of the little mystery. I found Sherlock Holmes alone, however, half asleep, with his long, thin form curled up in the recesses of his armchair. A formidable array of bottles and test-tubes, with the pungent cleanly smell of hydrochloric acid, told me that he had spent his day in the chemical work which was so dear to him.
その頃、私は仕事で非常に重い症例を抱え、翌日は一日中、患者の病床に付き添っていた。ようやく手が空いたのは六時近くで、ハンサムに飛び乗りベイカー街へ向かった。このちょっとした謎の結末に立ち会うには、遅すぎるかもしれないと幾分心配していた。だがシャーロック・ホームズは一人きりで、細長い体を肘掛け椅子の奥に丸め、半ば眠っていた。ずらりと並んだ瓶や試験管と、塩酸の鼻を刺すような清潔なにおいから、彼が大好きな化学実験に一日を費やしていたことが分かった。
"Well, have you solved it?" I asked as I entered.
「さて、解けたのかい」と私は入って尋ねた。
"Yes. It was the bisulphate of baryta."
「そうだ。酸性硫酸バリウムだった」