He returned to America in 1868 (вернулся в Америку в 1868 году), having been gone a little over two years (пропутешествовав немногим более двух лет). He had visited the capitals of twenty-two countries (посетил столицы двадцати двух государств) and talked with five emperors (и беседовал с пятью императорами), eleven kings (одиннадцатью королями), three princes (тремя принцами), a shah, a khan, and a sultan (шахом, ханом и султаном). At that time Fitz-Norman estimated his own wealth at one billion dollars (к этому времени Фиц-Норман оценивал свое состояние в миллиард долларов;
country ['kAntrI], eleven [I'lev(q)n], disclosure [dIs'klqVZq]
He returned to America in 1868, having been gone a little over two years. He had visited the capitals of twenty-two countries and talked with five emperors, eleven kings, three princes, a shah, a khan, and a sultan. At that time Fitz-Norman estimated his own wealth at one billion dollars. One fact worked consistently against the disclosure of his secret. No one of his larger diamonds remained in the public eye for a week before being invested with a history of enough fatalities, amours, revolutions, and wars to have occupied it from the days of the first Babylonian Empire.
From 1870 until his death in 1900 (c 1870 года до его смерти в 1900 году), the history of Fitz-Norman Washington was a long epic in gold (история Фиц-Нормана Вашингтона была одной большой: «длинной» поэмой, написанной золотыми буквами). There were side issues, of course (были, конечно, /и/ второстепенные события) — he evaded the surveys (он уклонялся от топографических съемок), he married a Virginia lady, by whom he had a single son (женился на одной виргинской леди, от которой у него родился единственный сын), and he was compelled, due to a series of unfortunate complications (и был вынужден, вследствие ряда досадных осложнений;
issue ['ISH], ['IsjH], whom [hHm], endanger [In'deInGq]
From 1870 until his death in 1900, the history of Fitz-Norman Washington was a long epic in gold. There were side issues, of course — he evaded the surveys, he married a Virginia lady, by whom he had a single son, and he was compelled, due to a series of unfortunate complications, to murder his brother, whose unfortunate habit of drinking himself into an indiscreet stupor had several times endangered their safety. But very few other murders stained these happy years of progress and expansion.