Собака Баскервилей / The Hound of the Baskervilles

He was clad[12 - clad – одет] in a professional but rather slovenly[13 - slovenly – неопрятный, неаккуратный (об одежде)]fashion, for his frock-coat was dingy and his trousers frayed[14 - his frock-coat was dingy and his trousers frayed – на нем были поношенный сюртук и потрепанные брюки]. Though young, his long back was already bowed, and he walked with a forward thrust of his head and a general air of peering benevolence[15 - benevolence – благожелательность, доброжелательность].

As he entered his eyes fell upon the stick in Holmes’s hand, and he ran towards it with an exclamation of joy. “I am so very glad,” said he. “I was not sure whether I had left it here or in the Shipping Office. I would not lose that stick for the world.”

“A presentation, I see,” said Holmes.

“Yes, sir.”

“From Charing Cross Hospital?”

“From one or two friends there on the occasion of my marriage.

”

“Dear, dear, that’s bad!” said Holmes, shaking his head.

Dr. Mortimer blinked through his glasses in mild astonishment. “Why was it bad?”

“Only that you have disarranged our little deductions. Your marriage, you say?”

“Yes, sir. I married, and so left the hospital, and with it all hopes of a consulting practice. It was necessary to make a home of my own.”

“Come, come, we are not so far wrong, after all,” said Holmes.

“And now, Dr. James Mortimer—”

“Mister, sir, Mister—a humble M.R.C.S[16 - M.R.C.S – член Королевского хирургического общества].”

“And a man of precise mind, evidently.”

“A dabbler[17 - dabbler – дилетант, любитель] in science, Mr. Holmes, a picker up of shells on the shores of the great unknown ocean. I presume that it is Mr. Sherlock Holmes whom I am addressing and not—”

“No, this is my friend Dr.

Watson.”

“Glad to meet you, sir. I have heard your name mentioned in connection with that of your friend. You interest me very much, Mr. Holmes. I had hardly expected so dolichocephalic[18 - dolichocephalic – долихоцефальный, длинноголовый] a skull or such well-marked supraorbital[19 - supra-orbital – надглазничный] development.