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"A thousand pounds! Great Lord of mercy!"
"一千英镑！我的老天爷呀！"
The commissionaire plumped down into a chair and stared from one to the other of us.
看门人品通一下跌坐在椅子上，瞪大眼睛轮番看着我和福尔摩斯。
"That is the reward, and I have reason to know that there are sentimental considerations in the background
"那只不过是赏格而已，而且我确实知道伯爵夫人由于暗中某些感情上的考虑，
which would induce the Countess to part with half her fortune if she could but recover the gem."
只要能够找回这颗宝石，她就是将财产分一半给人也会心甘情愿的。"
"It was lost, if I remember aright, at the Hotel Cosmopolitan," I remarked.
"如果我没有记错的话，这颗宝石是在'世界旅馆'丢失的。"我说道。
"Precisely so, on December 22d, just five days ago.
"的确如此，十二月二十二日，也就是五天以前。
John Horner, a plumber, was accused of having abstracted it from the lady's jewel-case.
约翰·霍纳，一个管子工，被人指控从伯爵夫人的首饰匣里窃取了这颗宝石。
The evidence against him was so strong that the case has been referred to the Assizes.
因为他犯罪的证据确凿，现在这一案件已提交法庭。
I have some account of the matter here, I believe."
我想这里还有些关于这事件的记载。"
He rummaged amid his newspapers, glancing over the dates,
他在那堆报纸里翻弄着，眼睛扫视一张张报纸上的日期，
until at last he smoothed one out, doubled it over, and read the following paragraph.
最后把一张报纸摊平，叠了一折，然后念了下面的段落。
