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

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

Артур Конан Дойл

Елена Владимировна Глушенкова

Легко читаем по-английски

«Союз рыжих» – один из наиболее известных рассказов А. К. Дойла из сборника «Приключения Шерлока Холмса», опубликованный в 1891 году. Текст произведения незначительно сокращен и упрощен.

Книга также содержит упражнения, комментарий и словарь.

Предназначается для продолжающих изучать английский язык (уровень 2 – Pre-Intermediate).

Артур Конан-Дойл / Arthur Conan Doyle

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

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I

I called on my friend, Mr. Sherlock Holmes, one day in the autumn of last year and found him speaking to an elderly gentleman with fiery red hair.

“You could not have come at a better time,[1 - You could not have come at a better time – Вы пришли как нельзя более кстати] my dear Watson,” Holmes said.

“I was afraid that you were engaged.”

“So I am.”

“Then I can wait in the next room.”

“Not at all. This gentleman, Mr. Wilson, has been my partner and helper in many of my most successful cases, and I have no doubt that he will be of use to me in yours also.”

The gentleman half rose from his chair and nodded.

“I know, my dear Watson, that you share my love of all that is outside the routine of everyday life.

You have shown it by the enthusiasm with which you chronicled so many of my adventures,” said Holmes.

“Your cases have been of the greatest interest to me,” I observed.

“Now, Mr. Jabez Wilson here has been good enough to call upon me this morning and go begin a story which promises to be one of the most unusual which I have listened to for some time.