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"Strange," said I, "how terms of what in another man I
should call laziness alternate with your fits of splendid

energy and vigour."

“奇怪，”我说，“你这么精力充沛的人怎么时不时也会表现出那
种放在其他人身上、叫做‘懒惰’的性质呢？”

"Yes," he answered, "there are in me the makings of a
very fine loafer, and also of a pretty spry sort of a fellow. I
often think of those lines of old Goethe: Schade dass die

Natur nur einen Mensch aus dir schuf, Denn zum w�rdigen
Mann war und zum Schelmen der Stoff.

“是的，”他答道，“我天生是一个很懒散的人，但同时又是一个

好动的人。我常常想到歌德的那句话：‘自然之神啊，它只创造了一个
你，尽管这个你可以修成圣贤，也可以堕为恶棍。’

By the way, apropos of this Norwood business, you see
that they had, as I surmised, a confederate in the house,
who could be none other than Lal Rao, the butler: so Jones
actually has the undivided honour of having caught one fish
in his great haul."

顺便说一句，在这件诺伍德案子里，你看，就跟我猜测的一样，
在房子里有一个内应，这个人不会是别人，就是仆人拉尔·拉奥，所

以，琼斯撒下大网，总算捞到了一条鱼，这也确实得算是琼斯个人的
荣誉了。”

"The division seems rather unfair," I remarked. "You
have done all the work in this business. I get a wife out of it,
Jones gets the credit, pray what remains for you?"

“分配得似乎不大公平，” 我说，“全案的工作都是你一个人做

的。我从中获得了妻子，琼斯得到了功绩，请问，剩下给你的还有什

么呢？”

"For me," said Sherlock Holmes, "there still remains the
cocaine-bottle." And he stretched his long white hand up for
it.