Ten minutes later the two girls met John in the dark corridor (спустя десять минут обе девушки встретились с Джоном в темном коридоре) and they descended to the main floor of the ch^ateau (и они спустились на первый: «главный» этаж замка). Passing for the last time through the magnificence of the splendid halls (пройдя в последний раз через великолепие роскошных залов), they stood for a moment out on the terrace (они постояли немного на террасе), watching the burning negro quarters (глядя на горящие жилища негров) and the flaming embers of two planes (и пылающие раскаленные обломки двух аэропланов;
preferable ['pref(q)rqbl], annihilate [q'naIqleIt], Ethiopian ["JTI'qVpIqn]
"It's impossible to be both together," said John grimly. "People have found that out. And I should choose to be free as preferable of the two. As an extra caution you'd better dump the contents of your jewel box into your pockets."
Ten minutes later the two girls met John in the dark corridor and they descended to the main floor of the ch^ateau. Passing for the last time through the magnificence of the splendid halls, they stood for a moment out on the terrace, watching the burning negro quarters and the flaming embers of two planes which had fallen on the other side of the lake. A solitary gun was still keeping up a sturdy popping, and the attackers seemed timorous about descending lower, but sent their thunderous fireworks in a circle around it, until any chance shot might annihilate its Ethiopian crew.
John and the two sisters passed down the marble steps (cпустились по мраморной лестнице), turned sharply to the left (круто свернули влево;
heavily ['hevIlI], concealed [kqn'sJld], necessary ['nesqs(q)rI]
John and the two sisters passed down the marble steps, turned sharply to the left, and began to ascend a narrow path that wound like a garter about the diamond mountain. Kismine knew a heavily wooded spot half-way up where they could lie concealed and yet be able to observe the wild night in the valley — finally to make an escape, when it should be necessary, along a secret path laid in a rocky gully.
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