A Nobler Man Never Walked the Earth

A. Glazzard
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One of the most problematic characters in any Holmes story is Steve Dixie, the black gangster who bursts into Holmes’s room at the beginning of ‘The Three Gables’. He is a man of contradictions, simultaneously ridiculed and full of menace. His size and apparent physical aggression – ‘his sullen dark eyes’ have ‘a smouldering gleam of malice in them’ (Case-Book, 133) – are in counterpoint to his comic appearance: Watson remarks on his ‘very loud grey check suit with a flowing salmon-coloured tie’ (133). Instructed by his superior to warn Holmes that his life is at threat ‘if he go down Harrow way’ (134), he enters like ‘a mad bull’ and twice threatens Holmes with physical violence: ‘It won’t be so damn fi ne if I have to trim you up a bit’ (133); ‘you’ll get put through it for sure if you give me any lip’ (134).
世上从未有比他更高贵的人
在所有福尔摩斯故事中最有问题的角色之一是史蒂夫·迪克西,在《三面山墙》的开头闯入福尔摩斯房间的黑人歹徒。他是一个矛盾的人,既受人嘲笑又充满威胁。他的身材和明显的身体攻击性——“他阴沉的黑眼睛”里“闪烁着恶意的光芒”(Case-Book, 133)——与他滑稽的外表形成了对比:沃森评价他“非常显眼的灰色格子西装配上一条飘逸的鲑鱼色领带”(133)。在上级的指示下,他警告福尔摩斯,“如果他走哈罗路”,他的生命将受到威胁(134),他像“一头疯牛”一样走了进来,两次以身体暴力威胁福尔摩斯:“如果我不得不给你修剪一下,那就不会那么好了”(133);“如果你对我顶嘴,我肯定会让你挨过的”(134)。
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