из-под деревьев появилась группа из трех человек) in strange eighteenth century black and silver uniforms (в странных, восемнадцатого века, черных с серебром: «черных и серебряных» униформах) with three-cornered hats (с треуголками;
corner — угол), pushing a kind of barrow (толкающие что-то вроде тележки;
kind — сорт, разновидность; разряд): they crossed a rise in the forest of graves (они пересекли возвышенность в лесу могил) and disappeared again (и снова исчезли).
realise ['rIqlaIz], rendezvous ['rOndIvu:], specify ['spesIfaI],Achilles [q'kIli:z], statue ['stxtju:], avenue ['xvInju:], enormous [I'nO:mqs], pompous ['pOmpqs], grotesque [grqu'tesk], comedy ['kOmedI], angelic [xn'GelIk], anonymous [q'nOnImqs], Catholic ['kxT(q)lIk], emerge [I'mq:G], ['], disappear ["dIsq'pIq], group [gru:p], century ['sentS(q)rI], uniform ['ju:nIfLm], push [puS], moustache [mq'stRS]
Martins had not realised the size of this huge snowbound park where he was making his last rendezvous with Lime. It was as if Harry had left a message to him, "Meet me in Hyde Park," without specifying a spot between the Achilles statue and Lancaster Gate; the avenue of graves, each avenue numbered and lettered, stretched out like the spokes of an enormous wheel; they drove for a half mile towards the west, then turned and drove a half mile north, turned south. … The snow gave the great pompous family headstones an air of grotesque comedy; a toupee of snow slipped sideways over an angelic face, a saint wore a heavy white moustache, and a shako of snow tipped at a drunken angle over the bust of a superior civil servant called Wolfgang Gottman. Even this cemetery was zoned between the powers: the Russian zone was marked by huge statues of armed men, the French by rows of anonymous wooden crosses and a torn tired tricolour flag. Then Martins remembered that Lime was a Catholic and was unlikely to be buried in the British zone for which they had been vainly searching. So back they drove through the heart of a forest where the graves lay like wolves under the trees, winking white eyes under the gloom of the evergreens. Once from under the trees emerged a group of three men in strange eighteenth century black and silver uniforms with three-cornered hats, pushing a kind of barrow: they crossed a rise in the forest of graves and disappeared again.
It was just chance that they found the funeral in time (это была просто случайность, что они нашли = застали похороны вовремя; to find — находить, обнаруживать)—one patch in the enormous park (один клочок в огромном парке) where the snow had been shovelled aside (где снег был сгребен в сторону) and a tiny group were gathered (и крохотная группа была собрана), apparently bent on some very private business (очевидно собирающиеся проделать какое-то очень личное/частное дело: «склоненные к какому-то очень личному делу»;