مغامرات شرلوك هولمز

I.

I.

En skandale i Bohemia

A Scandal in Bohemia

I.

I.

For Sherlock Holmes er hun altid

To Sherlock Holmes she is always

kvinden

the

over alle kvinder.

woman.

Jeg har sjældent hørt ham nævne hende under noget andet navn.

I have seldom heard him mention her under any other name.

I hans øjne overstråler og overskygger hun hele sit køn.

In his eyes she eclipses and predominates the whole of her sex.

Det var ikke, fordi han følte nogen sindsbevægelse, der lignede kærlighed, for Irene Adler.

It was not that he felt any emotion akin to love for Irene Adler.

Alle følelser,

All emotions,

og netop den,

and that one particularly,

var ham en gru med hans kolde,

were abhorrent to his cold,

nøjagtige, men beundringsværdigt afbalancerede forstand.

precise but admirably balanced mind.

Han var,

He was,

vil jeg mene,

I take it,

den mest fuldkomne tænke- og iagttagelsesmaskine, verden har set,

the most perfect reasoning and observing machine that the world has seen,

men som elsker ville han have stillet sig selv i et falsk lys.

but as a lover he would have placed himself in a false position.

Han talte aldrig om de blidere lidenskaber

He never spoke of the softer passions,

uden med spot og hån.

save with a gibe and a sneer.

De var beundringsværdige ting for iagttageren — fortræffelige til at rive sløret bort fra menneskers motiver og handlinger.

They were admirable things for the observer—excellent for drawing the veil from men’s motives and actions.

Men at den øvede tænker skulle lukke sådanne forstyrrelser ind i sit eget fint og nøje afstemte temperament, ville være at indføre et element af adspredelse, der kunne kaste tvivl over alle hans tankeresultater.

But for the trained reasoner to admit such intrusions into his own delicate and finely adjusted temperament was to introduce a distracting factor which might throw a doubt upon all his mental results.

Sandkorn i et følsomt instrument

Grit in a sensitive instrument,

eller en revne i en af hans egne stærke linser

or a crack in one of his own high-power lenses,

ville ikke virke mere foruroligende end en stærk følelse i en natur som hans.

would not be more disturbing than a strong emotion in a nature such as his.

Og dog var der kun én kvinde for ham,

And yet there was but one woman to him,

og den kvinde var den afdøde Irene Adler,

and that woman was the late Irene Adler,

hvis minde er tvivlsomt og omstridt.

of dubious and questionable memory.