He began to tell me all about Tiberius (он начал рассказывать мне все о Тиберии). Well, I had read my Suetonius too and I had read histories of the Early Roman Empire (ну, я тоже читал Светония, и читал историю ранней Римской империи;
Roman Empire ['rqumqn'empaIq], observe [qb'zWv]
He began to tell me all about Tiberius. Well, I had read my Suetonius too and I had read histories of the Early Roman Empire, so there was nothing very new to me in what he said. But I observed that he was not ill read. I remarked on it.
"Oh, well, when I settled down here I was naturally interested (о, ну, когда я поселился здесь, мне, естественно, было интересно), and I have plenty of time for reading (и у меня много времени для чтения;
I should remark here that this was in 1913 (здесь я должен заметить, что это было в 1913 году). The world was an easy, comfortable place (мир был спокойным, уютным местом;
association [q" squsI'eIS(q)n, q" squSI'eIS(q)n], disturb [dIs'tWb], existence [Ig'zIst(q)ns]
"Oh, well, when I settled down here I was naturally interested, and I have plenty of time for reading. When you live in a place like this, with all its associations, it seems to make history so actual. You might almost be living in historical times yourself."
I should remark here that this was in 1913. The world was an easy, comfortable place and no one could have imagined that anything might happen seriously to disturb the serenity of existence.
"How long have you been here (как долго вы здесь живете)?" I asked.