The Hound of the Baskervilles — Page 3

Confieso, mi querido amigo, que estoy muy en deuda contigo.

I confess, my dear fellow, that I am very much in your debt.

Nunca antes había dicho tanto, y debo admitir que sus palabras me produjeron un vivo placer, pues a menudo me había sentido herido por su indiferencia hacia mi admiración y hacia los intentos que había hecho para dar publicidad a sus métodos.

He had never said as much before, and I must admit that his words gave me keen pleasure, for I had often been piqued by his indifference to my admiration and to the attempts which I had made to give publicity to his methods.

También me enorgullecía pensar que había dominado su sistema lo suficiente como para aplicarlo de una manera que se ganó su aprobación.

I was proud, too, to think that I had so far mastered his system as to apply it in a way which earned his approval.

Entonces tomó el bastón de mis manos y lo examinó durante unos minutos a simple vista.

He now took the stick from my hands and examined it for a few minutes with his naked eyes.

Luego, con una expresión de interés, dejó su cigarrillo y, llevando el bastón hacia la ventana, lo examinó de nuevo con una lente convexa.

Then with an expression of interest he laid down his cigarette, and carrying the cane to the window, he looked over it again with a convex lens.

«Interesante, aunque elemental», dijo mientras regresaba a su rincón favorito del sofá.

"Interesting, though elementary," said he as he returned to his favourite corner of the settee.

«Hay sin duda una o dos indicaciones en el bastón. Nos da la base para varias deducciones.»

"There are certainly one or two indications upon the stick. It gives us the basis for several deductions."

«¿Se me ha escapado algo?», pregunté con cierta arrogancia. «¿Confío en que no haya nada de importancia que haya pasado por alto?»

"Has anything escaped me?" I asked with some self-importance. "I trust that there is nothing of consequence which I have overlooked?"

«Me temo, mi querido Watson, que la mayoría de sus conclusiones eran erróneas.

"I am afraid, my dear Watson, that most of your conclusions were erroneous.

Cuando dije que usted me estimulaba, quise decir, para ser franco, que al notar sus falacias me veía ocasionalmente guiado hacia la verdad.

When I said that you stimulated me I meant, to be frank, that in noting your fallacies I was occasionally guided towards the truth.

No es que esté del todo equivocado en este caso. El hombre es sin duda un médico rural. Y camina bastante.»

Not that you are entirely wrong in this instance. The man is certainly a country practitioner. And he walks a good deal."

«Entonces tenía razón.

"Then I was right.