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了一段时间，过着不舒适且漫无目的的生活，钱有多少就花多少，有

时候甚至会大大超支。所以，我的经济状况很快出现了危机，我意识
到，我要么必须离开大都市移居到乡下某地，要么就得彻底改变我的

生活方式。我选择了后者，决心离开这家旅馆，另找一个没这么奢
侈、昂贵的住处。

On the very day that I had come to this conclusion, I
was standing at the Criterion Bar, when someone tapped
me on the shoulder, and turning round I recognized young
Stamford, who had been a dresser under me at Barts. The

sight of a friendly face in the great wilderness of London is a
pleasant thing indeed to a lonely man. In old days Stamford
had never been a particular crony of mine, but now I hailed
him with enthusiasm, and he, in his turn, appeared to be

delighted to see me. In the exuberance of my joy, I asked
him to lunch with me at the Holborn, and we started off
together in a hansom.

就在我作出这个决定的那天，我站在“克莱提尔瑞安”酒吧门前，

忽然有人在我肩上拍了一下，我转身一看，认出是小斯坦福德，他是
我在巴兹时的一个助手。在伦敦茫茫人海中见到一张友善的面庞，对

于一个孤独的人来说，确实是件愉快的事。过去小斯坦福德并不算是
我特别好的朋友，但现在我竟热情地向他打招呼，而他见到我好像也

很高兴。我在狂喜之中邀请他到霍尔本餐厅共进午餐，于是，我们一

同乘马车前往。

"Whatever have you been doing with yourself, Watson?"
he asked in undisguised wonder, as we rattled through the

crowded London streets. "You are as thin as a lath and as
brown as a nut."

“沃森，你究竟都对自己做了什么呀？”在我们穿过伦敦熙熙攘攘

的街道时，他毫不掩饰自己的惊奇，这样问道。“你现在瘦得跟一根木
条一样，黑得跟一个坚果似的。�

I gave him a short sketch of my adventures, and had
hardly concluded it by the time that we reached our