[오늘의 한문장] 속이 빈 바늘 The Hollow Needle

"Raymonde--Raymonde!"

A voice as low as a breath was calling to her from the next room, the door of which had not been closed. She was feeling her way there, when Suzanne, her cousin, came out of the room and fell into her arms:

"Raymonde--is that you? Did you hear--?"
- P12

[오늘의 한문장] 속이 빈 바늘 The Hollow Needle

And, suddenly, she heard the same sound again. It was on the left and on the floor below her, in the living rooms, therefore, that unoccupied the left wing of the house. Brave and plucky though she was, the girl felt afraid. She slipped on her dressing gown and took the matches.
- P11

[오늘의 한문장] 속이 빈 바늘 The Hollow Needle

She rose softly. Her window was half open: she flung it back wide. The moonlight lay over a peaceful landscape of lawns and thickets, against which the strangling ruins of the old abbey stood out in tragic outlines, truncated columns, mutilated arches, fragments of porches and shreds of flying buttresses. A light breeze hovered over the face of the things, gliding noiselessly through the bare motionless branches of the trees, but shaking the tiny budding leaves of the shrubs.
- P11

[오늘의 한문장] 속이 빈 바늘 The Hollow Needle

THE HOLLOW NEEDLE
FURTHER ADVENTURES OF ARSENE LUPIN

BY MAURICE LEBLANC

CHAPTER ONE
THE SHOT

Raymond listened. The noise was repeated twice over, clearly enough to be distinguished from the medley of vague sounds that formed the great silence of the night and yet too faintly to enable her to tell whether it was near or far, within the walls of the big country-house, or outside, among the murky recesses of the park.
- P11

[오늘의 한문장] 속이 빈 바늘 The Hollow Needle

■ 저자 소개

모리스 르블랑(Maurice Marie Emile Leblanc, 1864~1941)은 프랑스의 추리 소설가입니다. 처음에는 모파상의 영향을 받아 풍속 심리 소설을 썼으나 1907년 도둑과 명탐정의 1인 2역을 하는 괴도 아르센 뤼팽을 주인공으로 하는 여러 편의 추리 소설을 발표하여 세계적으로 유명해졌습니다.
- P3