福尔摩斯-吸血鬼 The Adventure of the Sussex Vampire

The Adventure of the Sussex Vampire ¹,Arthur Conan Doyle,Holmes had read carefully a note which the last post had brought him. Then, with the dry chuckle ² which was his nearest approach to a laugh, he tossed it over to me.,“For a mixture of the modern and the mediaeval, of the practical and of the wildly fanciful, I think this is surely the limit, ” said he. “What do you make of it, Watson?”,I read as follows:,46, Old Jewry,,Re Vampires ³,Sir:,Our client, Mr. Robert Ferguson, of Ferguson and Muirhead, tea brokers ⁴, of Mincing ⁵ Lane, has made some inquiry ⁶ from us in a communication of even date concerning vampires. As our firm specializes entirely ⁷ upon the assessment ⁸ of machinery ⁹ the matter hardly comes within our purview ¹⁰, and we have therefore recommended Mr. Ferguson to call upon you and lay the matter before you. We have not forgotten your successful action in the case of Matilda Briggs.,We are, sir,,Faithfully yours,,Children were afraid to go to sleep at night because of the many legends of vampire.由于听过许多有关吸血鬼的传说，孩子们晚上不敢去睡觉。,He shook his head with a soft chuckle.他轻轻地笑着摇了摇头 。