"Oh, that's all right," he cried, with a merry laugh (о, с этим все в порядке, — вскричал он с веселым смехом). "I think we may consider the thing as settled (я думаю, вопрос можно считать решенным; to settle — урегулировать, разрешить; уладить) — that is, if the rooms are agreeable to you (то есть, если комнаты подходят вам; agreeable — допустимый, приемлемый)."

"When shall we see them (когда мы их посмотрим)?"

"Call for me here at noon to-morrow, and we'll go together and settle everything (зайдите за мной сюда завтра в полдень, и мы вместе пойдем и все уладим)," he answered.

"All right — noon exactly," said I, shaking his hand (хорошо — ровно в полдень, — сказал я, пожимая ему руку; to shake — трясти; пожимать).

violin [va'ln], category ['kaetr], anxiously ['ae(k)sl]

"Do you include violin-playing in your category of rows?" he asked, anxiously.

"It depends on the player," I answered. "A well-played violin is a treat for the gods — a badly-played one ——"

"Oh, that's all right," he cried, with a merry laugh. "I think we may consider the thing as settled — that is, if the rooms are agreeable to you."

"When shall we see them?"

"Call for me here at noon to-morrow, and we'll go together and settle everything," he answered.

"All right — noon exactly," said I, shaking his hand.

We left him working among his chemicals (мы оставили его за своими химикалиями: «работающим среди своих химикалий»; to leave — покидать, оставлять), and we walked together towards my hotel (и вместе пошли пешком к моей гостинице).

"By the way," I asked suddenly, stopping and turning upon Stamford (между прочим, — спросил я внезапно, останавливаясь и поворачиваясь к Стэнфорду), "how the deuce did he know that I had come from Afghanistan (откуда, черт возьми, он узнал, что я прибыл из Афганистана; deuce — черт, дьявол, бес)?"

My companion smiled an enigmatical smile (мой компаньон улыбнулся загадочной улыбкой; enigma — головоломка, загадка; enigmatical = enigmatic — загадочный, таинственный). "That's just his little peculiarity (а это как раз его маленькая особенность)," he said. "A good many people have wanted to know how he finds things out (немало людей хотело узнать, откуда он обо всем знает; good many — порядочное количество, довольно много; to find out — узнать, разузнать, выяснить; to find — найти)."

walk [w:k], deuce [dju:s], peculiarity [pkju:l'aert]

We left him working among his chemicals, and we walked together towards my hotel.

"By the way," I asked suddenly, stopping and turning upon Stamford, "how the deuce did he know that I had come from Afghanistan?"

My companion smiled an enigmatical smile. "That's just his little peculiarity," he said. "A good many people have wanted to know how he finds things out."

"Oh! a mystery, is it?" I cried, rubbing my hands (а, никак тайна: «тайна, не так ли»! — вскричал я, потирая руки; mystery — тайна, загадка, головоломка). "This is very piquant (это очень интригующе; piquant — пикантный). I am much obliged to you for bringing us together (очень обязан тебе за то, что ты свел нас вместе). ‘The proper study of mankind is man,’' you know (истинное изучение человечества — это изучение человека, знаешь ли; proper — правильный, должный; надлежащий)."