Английский с А. Конан Дойлем. Пиратские истории

 By this time Sharkey and Copley Banks had become very excellent friends, for Sharkey loved a wholehearted villain, and he loved a man of metal, and it seemed to him that the two met in the captain of the Ruffling Harry. It was long before he gave his confidence to him, for cold suspicion lay deep in his character. Never once would he trust himself outside his own ship and away from his own men.

But Copley Banks came often on board the Happy Delivery (но Копли Бэнкс часто бывал на борту «Счастливого избавления»), and joined Sharkey in many of his morose debauches (и присоединялся к Шарки во время его мрачных дебошей), so that at last any lingering misgivings of the latter were set at rest (так что наконец усыпил неослабные опасения последнего; lingering – продолжительный, долгий; медленно проходящий; to set at rest – успокоить: «поместить к покою»). He knew nothing of the evil that he had done to his new boon companion (он ничего не знал = Шарки и не подозревал о том зле, которое причинил своему новому собутыльнику), for of his many victims how could he remember the woman and the two boys (ибо как он мог запомнить среди своих многочисленных жертв женщину и двух мальчиков) whom he had slain with such levity so long ago (которых бездумно убил давным-давно; to slay; levity – ветреность, легкомыслие)! When, therefore, he received a challenge to himself and to his quartermaster for a carouse (и поэтому, когда он и его интендант получили приглашение на пирушку; challenge – вызов) upon the last evening of their stay at the Caicos Bank (в последний вечер их стоянки у берегов Кайкоса), he saw no reason to refuse (он не видел причин отказываться).

 But Copley Banks came often on board the Happy Delivery, and joined Sharkey in many of his morose debauches, so that at last any lingering misgivings of the latter were set at rest. He knew nothing of the evil that he had done to his new boon companion, for of his many victims how could he remember the woman and the two boys whom he had slain with such levity so long ago! When, therefore, he received a challenge to himself and to his quartermaster for a carouse upon the last evening of their stay at the Caicos Bank, he saw no reason to refuse.