福尔摩斯-退休的颜料商 The Adventure of the Retired Colourman

The Adventure of the Retired ¹ Colourman,Arthur Conan Doyle,Sherlock Holmes was in a melancholy ² and philosophic ³ mood that morning. His alert practical nature was subject to such reactions.,“Did you see him? ” he asked.,“You mean the old fellow who has just gone out?
”,“Precisely.”,“What did you think of him? ”,“A pathetic, futile ⁴, broken creature.
”,“Exactly, Watson. Pathetic and futile. But is not all life pathetic and futile? Is not his story a microcosm of the whole? We reach. We grasp. And what is left in our hands at the end? A shadow. Or worse than a shadow—misery.”,“Is he one of your clients? ”,“Well, I suppose I may call him so. He has been sent on by the Yard. Just as medical men occasionally send their incurables ⁶ to a quack ⁷. They argue that they can do nothing more, and that whatever happens the patient can be no worse than he is.”,Many retired people take up gardening as a hobby.许多退休的人都以从事园艺为嗜好 。,All at once he fell into a state of profound melancholy.他立即陷入无尽的忧思之中
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