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Full text: Japanese translation and original English

Holmes has explained that unusual cases may be shallow while ordinary crimes can conceal deeper difficulties, but he also says that they must act quickly. Watson asks what he intends to do next. The answer is unexpectedly simple: Holmes will smoke. He curls up in his chair, closes his eyes, and begins thinking in silence.

"To smoke," he answered.「たばこを吸うのさ」と彼は答えた。
"It is quite a three pipe problem, and I beg that you won't speak to me for fifty minutes."「これはまさしくパイプ三服ぶんの問題だから、五十分ほどは話しかけないでくれたまえ」
He curled himself up in his chair, with his thin knees drawn up to his hawk-like nose, and there he sat with his eyes closed and his black clay pipe thrusting out like the bill of some strange bird.彼は椅子の上で体を丸め、細いひざを鷹のような鼻先まで引き寄せると、目を閉じ、黒い陶製のパイプを奇妙な鳥のくちばしのように突き出して、じっと座っていた。
I had come to the conclusion that he had dropped asleep, and indeed was nodding myself, when he suddenly sprang out of his chair with the gesture of a man who has made up his mind and put his pipe down upon the mantelpiece.彼は眠りこんでしまったのだろうと私は思い、実のところ自分もこっくりしかけていたが、そのとき彼は、心を決めた人のような身ぶりで不意に椅子から跳び起き、パイプを炉棚に置いた。
"Sarasate plays at the St. James's Hall this afternoon," he remarked.「今日の午後、セント・ジェイムズ・ホールでサラサーテが弾くんだ」と彼は言った。
"What do you think, Watson?「どうだい、ワトソン？
Could your patients spare you for a few hours?"きみの患者たちは、二、三時間ほどきみを放免してくれそうかね？」