He looked at me for a moment, then he lit his pipe (с минуту он смотрел на меня, потом разжег свою трубку;
“Wherever I go, I’m dodged by half a dozen fellows (куда бы я ни пошел, за мной следует полдюжины парней;
“I know you are; I send ’em,” he replied composedly (я знаю, это я их посылаю, – ответил он спокойно;
“What for (для чего)?”
“Well,” said Sapt, puffing away (ну, – сказал Сэпт, выпуская /струю дыма/;
“I can take care of myself (я сам могу о себе позаботиться).”
“I’ll go to Zenda,” said I.
“You’re mad.”
“Some day.”
“Oh, perhaps. You’ll very likely stay there though, if you do.”
“That may be, my friend,” said I carelessly.
“His Majesty looks sulky,” observed Sapt. “How’s the love affair?”
“Damn you, hold your tongue!” I said.
He looked at me for a moment, then he lit his pipe. It was quite true that I was in a bad temper, and I went on perversely:
“Wherever I go, I’m dodged by half a dozen fellows.”
“I know you are; I send ’em,” he replied composedly.
“What for?”
“Well,” said Sapt, puffing away, “it wouldn’t be exactly inconvenient for Black Michael if you disappeared. With you gone, the old game that we stopped would be played – or he’d have a shot at it.”
“I can take care of myself.”
“De Gautet, Bersonin, and Detchard are in Strelsau (Де Готе, Берзонин и Дэтчард находятся в Стрелсо); and any one of them, lad, would cut your throat as readily (и любой из них, парень, перерезал бы вам глотку так же охотно) – as readily as I would Black Michael’s, and a deal more treacherously (как охотно я /перерезал/ бы ее Черному Михаэлю, /только/ сделал бы это из-за угла;
I opened it and read it aloud (я открыл =
“If the King desires to know what it deeply concerns the King to know (если король желает узнать о том, что короля очень заботит), let him do as this letter bids him (пусть поступит так, как указано в этом письме). At the end of the New Avenue there stands a house in large grounds (в конце Нью-Авеню стоит дом на большом участке земли). The house has a portico, with a statue of a nymph on it (у дома есть крыльцо со статуей нимфы на нем). A wall encloses the garden; there is a gate in the wall at the back (сад окружен стеной; сзади в стене есть калитка). At twelve o’clock tonight, if the King enters alone by that gate (сегодня в полночь, если король один войдет в эту калитку), turns to the right, and walks twenty yards (повернет направо и пройдет двадцать ярдов), he will find a summer-house, approached by a flight of six steps (он увидит летний домик, /к которому/ ведет лестница из шести ступеней;
“De Gautet, Bersonin, and Detchard are in Strelsau; and any one of them, lad, would cut your throat as readily – as readily as I would Black Michael’s, and a deal more treacherously. What’s the letter?”