Английский детектив. Джон Бакен. Тридцать девять ступеней / John Buchan. The Thirty-Nine Steps - стр. 61
I travelled with half a dozen in an atmosphere of shag and clay pipes. They had come from the weekly market, and their mouths were full of prices. I heard accounts of how the lambing had gone up the Cairn and the Deuch and a dozen other mysterious waters. Above half the men had lunched heavily and were highly flavoured with whisky, but they took no notice of me. We rumbled slowly into a land of little wooded glens and then to a great wide moorland place, gleaming with lochs, with high blue hills showing northwards.
About five o’clock the carriage had emptied (около пяти часов вагон опустел), and I was left alone as I had hoped (и я остался один: «был оставлен один», как я и надеялся; to leave alone). I got out at the next station (я сошел на следующей станции), a little place whose name I scarcely noted (в небольшом местечке, название которого я едва заметил), set right in the heart of a bog (/и которое было/ расположено прямо посреди болота; heart – сердце; центральная часть, середина). It reminded me of one of those forgotten little stations in the Karroo (она = эта станция напомнила мне одну из тех заброшенных: «забытых» небольших станций в Кару). An old station-master was digging in his garden (старый станционный смотритель копался в своем саду), and with his spade over his shoulder sauntered to the train (и, с лопатой на плече, он медленно подошел к поезду; to saunter – гулять, прогуливаться, прохаживаться), took charge of a parcel (принял на хранение посылку; charge – нагрузка, загрузка; попечение, надзор, хранение