Английский детектив. Джон Бакен. Тридцать девять ступеней / John Buchan. The Thirty-Nine Steps - стр. 17

), and I mixed it for him myself, for I was getting interested in the beggar (и я сам смешал его для него, потому что я начал заинтересовываться этим малым; beggar – нищий, попрошайка; парень, малый).

 ‘He is the man that has wrecked all their games. He is the one big brain in the whole show, and he happens also to be an honest man. Therefore he has been marked down these twelve months past. I found that out – not that it was difficult, for any fool could guess as much. But I found out the way they were going to get him, and that knowledge was deadly. That’s why I have had to decease.’

He had another drink, and I mixed it for him myself, for I was getting interested in the beggar.

‘They can’t get him in his own land (они не могут убить его в его собственной стране; land – земля, суша; страна), for he has a bodyguard of Epirotes that would skin their grandmothers (потому что у него личная охрана из эпиротов[5], которые содрали бы кожу со своих бабушек). But on the 15th day of June he is coming to this city (но пятнадцатого июня он приезжает в этот город = в Лондон). The British Foreign Office has taken to having International tea-parties (британское министерство иностранных дел полюбило устраивать международные званые чаепития; to take to smth. – пристраститься к чему-л.; обращаться, прибегать к чему-л.; office – служба, должность; ведомство, министерство), and the biggest of them is due on that date (и самое крупное из них намечено на эту дату). Now Karolides is reckoned the principal guest (так вот, Каролидес считается главным гостем), and if my friends have their way he will never return to his admiring countrymen (и, если мои друзья добьются своего, он никогда больше не вернется к обожающим его соотечественникам; to have one’s way – добиться своего, настоять на своем).’

 ‘They can’t get him in his own land, for he has a bodyguard of Epirotes that would skin their grandmothers. But on the 15th day of June he is coming to this city. The British Foreign Office has taken to having International tea-parties, and the biggest of them is due on that date. Now Karolides is reckoned the principal guest, and if my friends have their way he will never return to his admiring countrymen.’

‘That’s simple enough, anyhow (в любом случае, это довольно просто),’ I said. ‘You can warn him and keep him at home (вы можете предупредить его и удержать его дома; to keep – держать, не отдавать; задерживать, не отпускать).’

‘And play their game (и сыграть в их игру = им на руку)?’ he asked sharply