[오늘의 한문장] 수정마개 The Crystal Stopper

It was Gilbert and Vaucheray; Gilbert, a young fellow of twenty or twenty-two, with an attractive cast of features and a supple and sinewy frame:Vaucheray, older, shorter, with grizzled hair and a pale, sickly face.


- P12

[오늘의 한문장] 수정마개 The Crystal Stopper

He crossed garden, walked round a house in process of construction, the scaffolding of which loomed overhead, and cautiously opened the door on the Avenue de Ceinture. He was not mistaken: a bright light flashed round the bend and a large, open motor-car drew up, whence sprang two men in great-coats, with the collars turned up, and caps.
- P11

[오늘의 한문장] 수정마개 The Crystal Stopper

Arsene Lupin left the summer-house where he was smoking a cigar and, bending forward at the end of the pier:

"Growler?" he asked. "Master?.. Are you there?"

A man rose from each of the boats, and one of them answered;

"Yes, Governor"

"Get ready. I hear the car coming with Gilbert and Vauchery."
- P11

[오늘의 한문장] 수정마개 The Crystal Stopper

THE CRYSTAL STOPPER

by Maurice Leblanc

CHAPTER I. THE ARRESTS

The two boats fastened to the little pier that jutted out from the garden lay rocking in its shadow. Here and there lighted windows showed through the thick mist on the margins of the lake. The Enghien Casino opposite blazed with light, through it was late in the season, the end of September. A few stars appeared through the clouds. A light breeze ruffled the surface of the water.
- P11

[오늘의 한문장] 수정마개 The Crystal Stopper

■ 저자 소개

모리스 르블랑(Maurice Marie Emile Leblanc, 1864년 ~ 1941년)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