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He put a hand on either side of his head and rocked himself to and fro,
他兩手抱著腦袋，全身晃來晃去，
droning to himself like a child whose grief has got beyond words.
自言自語地嘟噥著象是一個有說不出的痛苦的小孩子。
Sherlock Holmes sat silent for some few minutes, with his brows knitted and his eyes fixed upon the fire.
歇洛克·福爾摩斯靜靜地坐了有幾分鐘，皺著眉頭，兩眼凝視著爐火。
"Do you receive much company?" he asked.
"你平時接待很多客人嗎？"他問。
"None save my partner with his family and an occasional friend of Arthur's.
"不外是我的合伙人和他的家眷，以及偶爾還有阿瑟的朋友。
Sir George Burnwell has been several times lately. No one else, I think."
喬治·伯恩韋爾最近曾來過幾次。我想沒有別的什么人了。"
"Do you go out much in society?"
"你常出去參加社交活動嗎？"
"Arthur does. Mary and I stay at home. We neither of us care for it."
"阿瑟常去。瑪麗和我呆在家里。我們倆都不想去。"
"That is unusual in a young girl."
"對于一個年輕姑娘來說，這是很不尋常的啊！"
"She is of a quiet nature. Besides, she is not so very young. She is four- and-twenty."
"她生性恬靜。此外，她已經不很年輕，已經二十四歲了。"
"This matter, from what you say, seems to have been a shock to her also."
"這件事情，照你所說，好象也使她受到很大震驚。"
"Terrible! She is even more affected than I."
"非常震驚！她可能比我更為震驚。"
"You have neither of you any doubt as to your son's guilt?"
"你們倆人都肯定認為你兒子有罪嗎？"
"How can we have when I saw him with my own eyes with the coronet in his hands."
"這還有什么可懷疑的呢，因為我親眼看見皇冠在他手里拿著。"
"I hardly consider that a conclusive proof. Was the remainder of the coronet at all injured?" "Yes, it was twisted."
"我不認為這是確鑿的證據。皇冠的其余部分損壞了沒有？" "嗯，它被扭歪了。"
"Do you not think, then, that he might have been trying to straighten it?"
"那么你是否這樣想過，他或許是要將它弄直？"
"God bless you! You are doing what you can for him and for me. But it is too heavy a task.
"上帝保佑你！你是在為他和我做你所能做的一切，但是這個任務過于艱巨了。
What was he doing there at all? If his purpose were innocent, why did he not say so?"
他究竟在那里干些什么？如果他是清白無辜的，他為什么不說話呢？"
