"How could I, with only a handful of silver to begin with? I paid you for the room this morning, because I knew I'd probably lose. I wanted to be sure I had a roof over my head tonight. I notice nobody sleeps in the streets of Zamboula. The very beggars hunt a niche they can barricade before dark. The city must be full of a particularly bloodthirsty band of thieves."
He gulped the cheap wine with relish and then followed Aram out of the taproom (он выпил дешевое вино залпом с удовольствие и потом последовал =
cheap [i: p], eye [a], laugh [l:f]
He gulped the cheap wine with relish and then followed Aram out of the taproom. Behind him the players halted their game to stare after him with a cryptic speculation in their eyes. They said nothing, but the Stygian laughed, a ghastly laugh of inhuman cynicism and mockery. The others lowered their eyes uneasily, avoiding one another's glance. The arts studied by a Stygian scholar are not calculated to make him share the feelings of a normal being.
Conan followed Aram down a corridor lighted by copper lamps (Конан последовал за Арамом вниз по коридору, освещенному медными лампами), and it did not please him to note his host's noiseless tread (и он с неудовольствием заметил: «это не понравилось ему заметить» бесшумную поступь своего хозяина). Aram's feet were clad in soft slippers and the hallway was carpeted with thick Turanian rugs (ступни Арама были обуты в мягкие шлепанцы, а коридор был устлан толстыми туранскими коврами); but there was an unpleasant suggestion of stealthiness about the Zamboulan (но был неприятный намек на скрытность в отношении =
please [pli: z], feet [fi: t], tread [tred]
Conan followed Aram down a corridor lighted by copper lamps, and it did not please him to note his host's noiseless tread. Aram's feet were clad in soft slippers and the hallway was carpeted with thick Turanian rugs; but there was an unpleasant suggestion of stealthiness about the Zamboulan.
At the end of the winding corridor, Aram halted at a door (в конце извилистого коридора Арам остановился у двери), across which a heavy iron bar rested in powerful metal brackets (поперек которой покоился тяжелый железный засов в мощных металлических скобах). This Aram lifted and showed the Cimmerian into a well-appointed chamber (его Арам поднял и провел киммерийца в хорошо обустроенную комнату), the windows of which, Conan instantly noted, were small and strongly set with twisted bars of iron, tastefully gilded (окна которой, сразу заметил Конан, были маленькими и крепко заделаны витыми решетками из железа, украшенными со вкусом;
heavy ['hev], iron ['an], couch [kau]