It is pleasant to me to observe, Watson, that you have so far grasped this truth that in these little records of our cases which you have been good enough to draw up, and, I am bound to say, occasionally to embellish, you have given prominence not so much to the many causes célebres and sensational trials in which I have figured but rather to those incidents which may have been trivial in themselves, but which have given room for those faculties of deduction and of logical synthesis which I have made my special province."
Me complace advertir, Watson, que hasta ahora ha captado usted esa gran verdad, y que en esas pequeñas crónicas de nuestros casos que ha tenido la bondad de redactar, debo decir que, embelleciéndolas en algunos puntos, no ha dado preferencia a las numerosas causes célèbres y procesos sensacionales en los que he intervenido, sino más bien a incidentes que pueden haber sido triviales, pero que daban ocasión al empleo de las facultades de deducción y síntesis que he convertido en mi especialidad.