Приключения Шерлока Холмса: Союз Рыжих / The Red-Headed League

“�Neither sickness, nor business, nor anything else will excuse you,’ said Mr. Duncan Ross; �you must stay there, or you lose your position.’

“�And the work?’

“�You are to copy out the Encyclopaedia Britannica. You must find your ink, pens, and paper, but we give you this table and chair. Will you be ready tomorrow?’

“�Certainly,’ I answered.

“�Then, good-bye, Mr. Jabez Wilson, and let me congratulate you once more on the important position which you have received.

’ He showed me out of the room and I went home with my assistant. I was so pleased at my good fortune.”

Exercises

1.В Answer the questions:

1.В What client called on Sherlock Holmes one day? What did he look like?

2. What did Sherlock Holmes tell Dr. Watson about Mr. Wilson’s case?

3.В What did Sherlock Holmes guess about Mr. Wilson? What details helped him? Was Mr. Wilson impressed? Why (not)?

4.В What did Mr. Wilson tell Sherlock Holmes and Dr.

Watson about his business and household?

5. What did you learn about Mr. Wilson’s assistant?

6.В How did Mr. Wilson learn about a vacancy on the Red-headed League?

7.В Was Mr. Wilson enthusiastic about the vacancy? Why (not)?

8.В Why did Mr. Wilson go to Fleet Street in the end?

9.В Why did he take his assistant with him?

10.В What did Mr. Wilson see in Fleet Street and in the office of the Red-headed League?

11.В Whom did Mr. Wilson meet in the office? Did Mr.

Ross employ him at once?

12.В What was the work like?

2.В Think and say if these statements are right or wrong. Correct the wrong ones, give your reasons.

1.В Vincent Spaulding agreed to work for Mr. Wilson for half the wages to learn the business.

2.В An American millionaire Ezekiah Hopkins left his enormous fortune to help and propagate red-headed men in London.

3.В Mr. Wilson was sure that the whole affair of the Red-Headed League was a fraud and wanted Sherlock Holmes to explain to him what it was all about.

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