I lent the ostlers a hand in rubbing down their horses, and received in exchange twopence, a glass of half and half, two fills of shag tobacco, and as much information as I could desire about Miss Adler, to say nothing of half a dozen other people in the neighbourhood in whom I was not in the least interested, but whose biographies I was compelled to listen to."
Eché una mano a los mozos que limpiaban los caballos y recibí a cambio dos peniques, un vaso de cerveza, dos cargas de tabaco para la pipa y toda la información que quise sobre la señorita Adler, por no mencionar a otra media docena de personas del vecindario que no me interesaban lo más mínimo, pero cuyas biografías no tuve más remedio que escuchar.