A sound of quick steps broke the silence of the moor. Crouching among the stones we staredintently at the silver-tipped bank in front of us. The steps grew louder, and through the fog, asthrough a curtain, there stepped the man whom we were awaiting....
Every minute that white woolly plain which covered one-half of the moor was drifting closerand closer to the house. Already the first thin wisps of it were curling across the golden square ofthe lighted window. The farther wall of the orchard was alr...
I have said that over the great Grimpen Mire there hung a dense, white fog. It was driftingslowly in our direction and banked itself up like a wall on that side of us, low but thick and welldefined. The moon shone on it, and it looked like a great sh...
As I watched them Stapleton rose and left the room, while Sir Henry filled his glass againand leaned back in his chair, puffing at his cigar. I heard the creak of a door and the crisp sound ofboots upon gravel. The steps passed along the path on the...
This will do, said he. These rocks upon the right make an admirable screen.就在这里好了 。 他说道，右侧的这些山石是绝妙的屏障。 We are to wait here? 咱们就在这里等吗？ Yes, we shall make our little ambush here. Get i...
Are you armed, Lestrade? 你带着武器吗， 雷斯垂德？ The little detective smiled. 那矮个儿侦探微笑了 一下。 As long as I have my trousers I have a hip-pocket, and as long as I have my hip-pocket Ihave something in it. 只要我穿...
Chapter 14 - The Hound of the Baskervilles 第十四章 巴斯克维尔的猎犬 One of Sherlock Holmes's defects -- if, indeed, one may call it a defect -- was that he wasexceedingly loath to communicate his full plans to any other person until the...
Our case becomes rounded off, and difficulty after difficulty thins away in front of us, saidHolmes as we stood waiting for the arrival of the express from town. I shall soon be in theposition of being able to put into a single connected narrative on...
And then after you had sent the letter he dissuaded you from keeping the appointment?等您把信发出去之后， 他又劝阻您不要前往赴约？ He told me that it would hurt his self-respect that any other man should find the money forsuch a...
Mr. Holmes, she said, this man had offered me marriage on condition that I could get adivorce from my husband. He has lied to me, the villain, in every conceivable way. Not one wordof truth has he ever told me. And why -- why? I imagined that all was...
