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Full text: Japanese translation and original English

Using the disguise again enabled St. Clair to pay his debt, but ordinary newspaper reporting then seemed painfully unrewarding. He eventually left the newspaper and made the street corner his regular occupation. Only the den keeper knew his profitable secret because the upstairs room served as his place to change.

"Well, very soon I found that I was saving considerable sums of money.「やがて、かなりの金がたまるようになりました。
I do not mean that any beggar in the streets of London could earn £ 700 a year—which is less than my average takings—but I had exceptional advantages in my power of making up, and also in a facility of repartee, which improved by practice and made me quite a recognised character in the City.ロンドンの物乞いなら誰でも年七百ポンド稼げると言うのではありません。私の平均収入はそれ以上でしたが、私には化粧の技術という特別な強みと、練習で上達した切り返しのうまさがあり、シティではすっかり知られた存在になっていたのです。
All day a stream of pennies, varied by silver, poured in upon me, and it was a very bad day in which I failed to take £ 2.一日中、一ペニー銅貨が、ときには銀貨も交じって流れ込み、二ポンドに届かなければひどく悪い日でした。
"As I grew richer I grew more ambitious, took a house in the country, and eventually married, without anyone having a suspicion as to my real occupation.「金が増えるにつれて望みも大きくなり、田舎に家を構え、やがて結婚しました。誰も本当の職業を疑いませんでした。
My dear wife knew that I had business in the City.大切な妻は、私にシティでの用事があることは知っていました。
She little knew what.その中身までは、少しも知りませんでした。