I had talked with him perhaps half a dozen times in the past month and found , to my disappointment , that he had little to say : So my first impression , that he was a person of some undefined consequence , had gradually faded and he had become simply the proprietor of an elaborate road-house next door .
За последний месяц я разговаривал с ним, может быть, полдюжины раз и обнаружил, к своему разочарованию, что он мало что может сказать. просто владелец тщательно продуманного придорожного дома по соседству.