Tham khảo tài liệu 'luyện đọc tiếng anh qua tác phẩm văn học-the adventures of sherlock homes -arthur conan doyle 1-2', ngoại ngữ, kỹ năng đọc tiếng anh phục vụ nhu cầu học tập, nghiên cứu và làm việc hiệu quả | THE ADVENTURES OF SHERLOCK HOMES ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE A Scandal in Bohemia ii. At three o clock precisely I was at Baker Street but Holmes had not yet returned. The landlady informed me that he had left the house shortly after eight o clock in the morning. I sat down beside the fire however with the intention of awaiting him however long he might be. I was already deeply interested in his inquiry for though it was surrounded by none of the grim and strange features which were associated with the two crimes which I have already recorded still the nature of the case and the exalted station of his client gave it a character of its own. Indeed apart from the nature of the investigation which my friend had on hand there was something in his masterly grasp of a situation and his keen incisive reasoning which made it a pleasure to me to study his system of work and to follow the quick subtle methods by which he disentangled the most inextricable mysteries. So accustomed was I to his invariable success that the very possibility of his failing had ceased to enter into my head. It was close upon four before the door opened and a drunkenlooking groom ill-kempt and side-whiskered with an inflamed face and disreputable clothes walked into the room. Accustomed as I was to my friend s amazing powers in the use of disguises I had to look three times before I was certain that it was indeed he. With a nod he vanished into the bedroom whence he emerged in five minutes tweed-suited and respectable as of old. Putting his hands into his pockets he stretched out his legs in front of the fire and laughed heartily for some minutes. Well really he cried and then he choked and laughed again until he was obliged to lie back limp and helpless in the chair. What is it It s quite too funny. I am sure you could never guess how I employed my morning or what I ended by doing. I can t imagine. I suppose that you have been watching the habits and perhaps the house of Miss Irene Adler. Quite so but the
