With every turn I peered ahead, looking for our opponents, but my uncle seemed to concern himself very little about them, and occupied himself in giving me advice, mixed up with so many phrases of the craft, that it was all that I could do to follow him.
À chaque courbe, je jetais un coup d'oeil en avant pour découvrir nos adversaires, mais mon oncle paraissait ne pas s'en tourmenter beaucoup, et il s'occupait à me donner des conseils, où il mêlait tant de termes du métier que j'avais de la peine à le comprendre.