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| "They are typewritten," I remarked. | Но вернемся к делу, Уотсон. |
| "Not only that, but the signature is typewritten. | Не прочтете ли вы мне описание внешности мистера Госмера Эйнджела, данное в объявлении? |
| Look at the neat little | Я поднес газетную вырезку к свету и прочитал: |
| 'Hosmer Angel' at the bottom. | "Пропал без вести утром 14-го джентльмен по имени Госмер Эйнджел. |
| There is a date, you see, but no superscription except Leadenhall Street, which is rather vague. | Рост - пять футов семь дюймов, крепкого сложения, смуглый, черноволосый, небольшая лысина на макушке; густые черные бакенбарды и усы; темные очки, легкий дефект речи. |
| The point about the signature is very suggestive-in fact, we may call it conclusive." | Одет в черный сюртук на шелковой подкладке, черный жилет, в кармане часы с золотой цепочкой, серые твидовые брюки, коричневые гетры поверх штиблет с резинками по бокам. |
| "Of what?" | Служил в конторе на Леднхолл-стрит. |
| "My dear fellow, is it possible you do not see how strongly it bears upon the case?" | Всякому, кто сообщит..." и так далее и тому подобное. |
| "I cannot say that I do unless it were that he wished to be able to deny his signature if an action for breach of promise were instituted." | - Этого достаточно. |
| "No, that was not the point. | Что касается писем, - сказал Холмс, пробегая их глазами, - они очень банальны и ничего не дают для характеристики мистера Эйнджела, разве только, что он упоминает Бальзака. |
| However, I shall write two letters, which should settle the matter. | Однако есть одно обстоятельство, которое вас, конечно, поразит. |
| One is to a firm in the City, the other is to the young lady's stepfather, Mr. Windibank, asking him whether he could meet us here at six o'clock to-morrow evening. | - Они напечатаны на машинке, - заметил я. |
| It is just as well that we should do business with the male relatives. | - Главное, что и подпись тоже напечатана на машинке. |
| And now, Doctor, we can do nothing until the answers to those letters come, so we may put our little problem upon the shelf for the interim." | Посмотрите на аккуратненькое |
| I had had so many reasons to believe in my friend's subtle powers of reasoning and extraordinary energy in action that I felt that he must have some solid grounds for the assured and easy demeanour with which he treated the singular mystery which he had been called upon to fathom. | "Госмер Эйнджел" внизу. |
| Once only had I known him to fail, in the case of the King of Bohemia and of the Irene Adler photograph; but when I looked back to the weird business of the Sign of Four, and the extraordinary circumstances connected with the Study in Scarlet, I felt that it would be a strange tangle indeed which he could not unravel. |
