(а потом со слезами: «плача» убежала /к себе/ наверх) with the yellow sporting paper in her hand (с желтой спортивной газетой в руке). The husband of the woman who ran the Bal Musette drove a taxi (муж той женщины, которая содержала "Bal Musette", водил = был шофером такси) and when he, Harry, had to take an early plane (и когда ему, Гарри, надо было лететь утренним: «ранним» самолетом) the husband knocked upon the door to wake him (шофер: «муж» постучался /к нему/ в дверь, чтобы разбудить его) and they each drank a glass of white wine at the zinc of the bar before they started (и перед тем как ехать, они выпили по стакану белого вина у цинковой стойки в баре: «у цинка барной стойки»). He knew his neighbors in that quarter then because they all were poor (он знал тогда всех соседей в том = своем квартале, потому что все они были беднота).
sweat [swet], poverty ['pOvqtI], entertain ["entq'teIn], bicycle ['baIsIkl], neighbor ['neIbq]
You could dictate that, but you could not dictate the Place Contrescarpe where the flower sellers dyed their flowers in the street and the dye ran over the paving where the autobus started and the old men and the women, always drunk on wine and bad marc; and the children with their noses running in the cold; the smell of dirty sweat and poverty and drunkenness at the Café des Amateurs and the whores at the Bal Musette they lived above. The Concierge who entertained the trooper of the Garde Republicaine in her loge his horse-hair-plumed helmet on a chair. The locataire across the hall whose husband was a bicycle racer and her joy that morning at the Cremerie when she had opened L'Auto and seen where he placed third in Paris-Tours his first big race. She had blushed and laughed and then gone upstairs crying with the yellow sporting paper in her hand. The husband of the woman who ran the Bal Musette drove a taxi and when he, Harry, had to take an early plane the husband knocked upon the door to wake him and they each drank a glass of white wine at the zinc of the bar before they started. He knew his neighbors in that quarter then because they all were poor.
Around that Place there were two kinds (вокруг той площади жили два рода = две категории /людей/); the drunkards and the sportifs (пьяницы и спортсмены /фр./). The drunkards killed their poverty that way (пьяницы глушили свою нищету пьянством: «тем = своим способом»); the sportifs took it out in exercise (спортсмены изводили ее тренировками; to take out — вынимать; удалять; разрушать, уничтожать