The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes — Page 2

精密機器に混入した砂粒や、自前の高倍率レンズにできたひび割れでさえ、彼のような性質の持ち主にとっては、強い感情ほどには心を乱さなかっただろう。

Grit in a sensitive instrument, or a crack in one of his own high-power lenses, would not be more disturbing than a strong emotion in a nature such as his.

それでも彼にとって唯一の女性が存在した――それは、いまは亡き、いかがわしく疑わしい評判のアイリーン・アドラーその人であった。

And yet there was but one woman to him, and that woman was the late Irene Adler, of dubious and questionable memory.

近ごろ私はホームズにほとんど会っていなかった。

I had seen little of Holmes lately.

私の結婚が、私たちをお互いから遠ざけてしまったのだ。

My marriage had drifted us away from each other.

私自身の完全な幸福と、初めて自分の家庭の主となった男の周りに生まれる家庭中心の関心事が、私の注意をすっかり吸い取るには十分だった。

My own complete happiness, and the home-centred interests which rise up around the man who first finds himself master of his own establishment, were sufficient to absorb all my attention.

一方ホームズは、ボヘミアン気質の魂をもってあらゆる社交というものを忌み嫌い、ベイカー街の下宿に留まり、古い本の山に埋もれながら、コカインと野心のあいだを、薬の眠気と自らの鋭い本性がもたらす激しいエネルギーのあいだを、週ごとに行き来していた。

while Holmes, who loathed every form of society with his whole Bohemian soul, remained in our lodgings in Baker Street, buried among his old books, and alternating from week to week between cocaine and ambition, the drowsiness of the drug, and the fierce energy of his own keen nature.

彼は相変わらず、犯罪の研究に深く惹かれており、公式の警察が絶望的として放棄した手がかりを追い、謎を解明することに、その並外れた能力と卓越した観察力を注ぎ込んでいた。

He was still, as ever, deeply attracted by the study of crime, and occupied his immense faculties and extraordinary powers of observation in following out those clues, and clearing up those mysteries which had been abandoned as hopeless by the official police.

時折、私は彼の活動についてぼんやりとした話を耳にした。トレポフ殺人事件でオデッサに呼ばれたこと、トリンコマリーでのアトキンソン兄弟の奇妙な悲劇を解決したこと、そして最終的にはオランダの王家のために見事に繊細かつ成功裏に使命を果たしたことなどを。

From time to time I heard some vague account of his doings: of his summons to Odessa in the case of the Trepoff murder, of his clearing up of the singular tragedy of the Atkinson brothers at Trincomalee, and finally of the mission which he had accomplished so delicately and successfully for the reigning family of Holland.