Eagle-Eye Cherry 'Desireless' [CD] { } ~54.00.00 53964

If in telling the story I seem to be somewhat vague in certain details, the public will readily understand that there is an excellent reason for my reticence. It was, then, in a year, and even in a decade, that shall be nameless, that upon one Tuesday morning in autumn we found two visitors of European fame within the walls of our humble room in Baker Street. The one, austere, high-nosed, eagle-eyed, and dominant, was none other than the illustrious Lord Bellinger, twice Premier of Britain. The other, dark, clear-cut, and elegant, hardly yet of middle age, and endowed with every beauty of body and of mind, was the Right Honourable Trelawney Hope, Secretary for European Affairs, and the most rising statesman in the country. They sat side by side upon our paper-littered settee (они сели рядом: «бок о бок» на заваленный бумагами диван; litter разбросанные вещи, беспорядок; сор, мусор), and it was easy to see from their worn and anxious faces (и по их утомленным и взволнованным лицам легко было понять; worn потрепанный, поношенный; изнуренный) that it was business of the most pressing importance which had brought them (что срочное дело чрезвычайной важности привело их /сюда/; pressing неотложный, спешный, срочный; to press давить, нажимать; торопить, требовать немедленных действий) ...»