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Las aventuras de Sherlock Holmes
A Scandal in Bohemia
Capítulo 1, Página 8
“Why,
indeed?”
murmured
Holmes.
“Your
Majesty
had
not
spoken
before
I
was
aware
that
I
was
addressing
Wilhelm
Gottsreich
Sigismond
von
Ormstein,
Grand
Duke
of
Cassel-Felstein,
and
hereditary
King
of
Bohemia.”
“But
you
can
understand,”
said
our
strange
visitor,
sitting
down
once
more
and
passing
his
hand
over
his
high
white
forehead,
“you
can
understand
that
I
am
not
accustomed
to
doing
such
business
in
my
own
person.
Yet
the
matter
was
so
delicate
that
I
could
not
confide
it
to
an
agent
without
putting
myself
in
his
power.
I
have
come
incognito
from
Prague
for
the
purpose
of
consulting
you.”
“Then,
pray
consult,”
said
Holmes,
shutting
his
eyes
once
more.
“The
facts
are
briefly
these:
Some
five
years
ago,
during
a
lengthy
visit
to
Warsaw,
I
made
the
acquaintance
of
the
well-known
adventuress,
Irene
Adler.
The
name
is
no
doubt
familiar
to
you.”
“Kindly
look
her
up
in
my
index,
Doctor,”
murmured
Holmes
without
opening
his
eyes.
For
many
years
he
had
adopted
a
system
of
docketing
all
paragraphs
concerning
men
and
things,
so
that
it
was
difficult
to
name
a
subject
or
a
person
on
which
he
could
not
at
once
furnish
information.
In
this
case
I
found
her
biography
sandwiched
in
between
that
of
a
Hebrew
rabbi
and
that
of
a
staff-commander
who
had
written
a
monograph
upon
the
deep-sea
fishes.
“Let
me
see!”
said
Holmes.
“Hum!
Born
in
New
Jersey
in
the
year
1858.
Contralto—hum!
La
Scala,
hum!
Prima
donna
Imperial
Opera
of
Warsaw—yes!
Retired
from
operatic
stage—ha!
Living
in
London—quite
so!
Your
Majesty,
as
I
understand,
became
entangled
with
this
young
person,
wrote
her
some
compromising
letters,
and
is
now
desirous
of
getting
those
letters
back.”
“Precisely
so.
But
how—”
“Was
there
a
secret
marriage?”
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