Outside was a considerable yard (снаружи = у мастерской был обширный двор; considerable — большой, значительный) full of monumental masonry (заполненный памятниками; monumental — монументальный, служащий памятником; masonry — каменная или кирпичная кладка; monumental mason — мастер, делающий надгробные плиты, памятники). Inside was a large room (внутри располагалась большая комната) in which fifty workers were carving or moulding (в которой пятьдесят рабочих занимались резьбой и формовкой). The manager, a big blond German (хозяин, крупный белокурый немец; manager — глава, директор; руководитель, управляющий), received us civilly (принял нас вежливо) and gave a clear answer to all Holmes’s questions (и дал ясные ответы на все вопросы Холмса). A reference to his books showed (ссылка на книги = записи в его книгах показывали) that hundreds of casts had been taken from a marble copy of Devine’s head of Napoleon (что сотни слепков были сняты с мраморной копии головы Наполеона /работы/ Девина), but that the three (но три /штуки/) which had been sent to Morse Hudson a year or so before (которые послали Морзу Хадсону около года назад; or so — приблизительно, около того) had been half of a batch of six (составляли половину партии из шести /бюстов/; batch — партия /товара, продукции/; серия /изделий/), the other three being sent to Harding Brothers, of Kensington (другие три были отправлены братьям Хардингам в Кенсингтон).

succession [sk'sen], theatrical ['aetrkl], tenement ['tenmnt], Europe ['jurp], thoroughfare ['rfe], merchant ['m:nt], monumental [mnju'mentl]

In rapid succession we passed through the fringe of fashionable London, hotel London, theatrical London, literary London, commercial London, and, finally, maritime London, till we came to a riverside city of a hundred thousand souls, where the tenement houses swelter and reek with the outcasts of Europe. Here, in a broad thoroughfare, once the abode of wealthy City merchants, we found the sculpture works for which we searched.

Outside was a considerable yard full of monumental masonry. Inside was a large room in which fifty workers were carving or moulding. The manager, a big blond German, received us civilly and gave a clear answer to all Holmes’s questions. A reference to his books showed that hundreds of casts had been taken from a marble copy of Devine’s head of Napoleon, but that the three which had been sent to Morse Hudson a year or so before had been half of a batch of six, the other three being sent to Harding Brothers, of Kensington.