At the table covered with a cloth at which Katavasov and Metrov took their seats six men were sitting, and one of them, with his head bent close over a manuscript, was reading something.
У стола, покрытого сукном, за который сели Катавасов и Метров, сидело шесть человек, и один из них, близко пригибаясь к рукописи, читал что-то.