| The room on the other side of the American's - for there were three rooms on a floor in the hotel - was tenanted by an old English physician of rather doubtful reputation. | По другую сторону его комнаты - а их было на каждом этаже всего три проживал пожилой англичанин, лондонский доктор с несколько подмоченной репутацией. |
| Dr. Noel, for that was his name, had been forced to leave London, where he enjoyed a large and increasing practice; and it was hinted that the police had been the instigators of this change of scene. | Доктор Ноэль - так звали соседа Сайласа - был вынужден покинуть Лондон, где у него была большая и все возраставшая практика; говорили, что этой смене декорации в известной степени способствовали полицейские власти. |
| At least he, who had made something of a figure in earlier life, now dwelt in the Latin Quarter in great simplicity and solitude, and devoted much of his time to study. | Как бы то ни было, человек этот, некогда занимавший в обществе положение не лишенное известного блеска, ныне жил в Латинском квартале неприхотливой жизнью анахорета, почти весь свой досуг отдавая науке. |
| Mr. Scuddamore had made his acquaintance, and the pair would now and then dine together frugally in a restaurant across the street. | Мистер Скэддемор вскоре с ним подружился, и они иногда вместе вкушали скромный обед в ресторане напротив гостиницы. |
| Silas Q. Scuddamore had many little vices of the more respectable order, and was not restrained by delicacy from indulging them in many rather doubtful ways. | За Сайласом К. Скэддемором водились кое-какие грешки, не слишком, впрочем, серьезные, и хоть они и не украшали его репутации, он предавался им, отбросив ложный стыд. |
| Chief among his foibles stood curiosity. | На первом месте среди них стояло любопытство. |
| He was a born gossip; and life, and especially those parts of it in which he had no experience, interested him to the degree of passion. | У него был нюх прирожденного сплетника; жизнь, особенно та ее сторона, с которой он еще не успел как следует познакомиться, занимала его до страсти. |
| He was a pert, invincible questioner, pushing his inquiries with equal pertinacity and indiscretion; he had been observed, when he took a letter to the post, to weigh it in his hand, to turn it over and over, and to study the address with care; and when he found a flaw in the partition between his room and Madame Zephyrine's, instead of filling it up, he enlarged and improved the opening, and made use of it as a spy-hole on his neighbour's affairs. |
