我从来不知道我的朋友将在更好的形式，无论精神和 物理，比去年'95。他的名气还带来了越来越多 它的巨大的实践，我应该是口误，如果我有罪 甚至也暗示了杰出的一些客户的身份 谁想过我们在贝克街谦逊的门槛。福尔摩斯，但是， 像所有伟大的艺术家，他的艺术生活的缘故，并保存在 对霍尔德内斯公爵的情况下，我很少知道他的任何索赔 大奖赏他的不可估量的服务。因此，超逸，旷达是他或 如此反复无常，他经常拒绝他的帮助，功能强大， 富裕那里的问题并没有呼吁他的同情，而他 将用最激烈的申请星期的事务 一些简陋的情况下提出的那些客户端陌生和戏剧性 优点是呼吁他的想象，质疑他 创造力。 在这个值得纪念的一年'95，一个奇怪的继承和不协调 案件已聘请了他的注意，从他的著名 调查的红衣主教托斯卡- 1猝死调查 === I have never known my friend to be in better form, both mental and physical, than in the year '95. His increasing fame had brought with it an immense practice, and I should be guilty of an indiscretion if I were even to hint at the identity of some of the illustrious clients who crossed our humble threshold in Baker Street. Holmes, however, like all great artists, lived for his art's sake, and, save in the case of the Duke of Holdernesse, I have seldom known him claim any large reward for his inestimable services. So unworldly was he- or so capricious- that he frequently refused his help to the powerful and wealthy where the problem made no appeal to his sympathies, while he would devote weeks of most intense application to the affairs of some humble client whose case presented those strange and dramatic qualities which appealed to his imagination and challenged his ingenuity. In this memorable year '95, a curious and incongruous succession of cases had engaged his attention, ranging from his famous investigation of the sudden death of Cardinal Tosca- an inquiry