Английский с О. Генри. Благородный жулик / O. Henry. The Gentle Grafter

 Then you want to have a flat footed, heavy breathing man with sandy whiskers, five kids and a building and loan mortgage ready as an understudy to take her desk. Now there was that widow lady that me and Andy Tucker engaged to help us in that little matrimonial agency scheme we floated out in Cairo.

“When you’ve got enough advertising capital – say a roll as big as the little end of a wagon tongue – there’s money in matrimonial agencies. We had about $6,000 and we expected to double it in two months, which is about as long as a scheme like ours can be carried on without taking out a New Jersey charter.

“We fixed up an advertisement that read about like this (мы составили объявление, которое звучало примерно так; to fix up – установить; устроить, обеспечить; advertisement – объявление; реклама; to read – читать; гласить):