| Also, like most hotels of its kind, it was frequented by a certain type of eager and ambitious male of not certain age or station in life, who counted upon his appearance here at least once, if not twice a day, at certain brisk and interesting hours, to establish for himself the reputation of man-about-town, or rounder, or man of wealth, or taste, or attractiveness, or all. | "Грин-Дэвидсон", как и все отели такого рода, посещался людьми известного сорта: тут бывали главным образом тщеславные мужчины неопределенного возраста и неопределенных занятий, жаждавшие легкого успеха и рассчитывавшие своим появлением здесь раз, а то и два в день, в часы наибольшего оживления, укрепить за собой репутацию светского человека, или прожигателя жизни, или богача, или человека со вкусом, или покорителя сердец, или всего сразу. |
| And it was not long after Clyde had begun to work here that he was informed by these peculiar boys with whom he was associated, one or more of whom was constantly seated with him upon the "hop-bench," as they called it, as to the evidence and presence even here - it was not long before various examples of the phenomena were pointed out to him - of a certain type of social pervert, morally disarranged and socially taboo, who sought to arrest and interest boys of their type, in order to come into some form of illicit relationship with them, which at first Clyde could not grasp. |