(/подшитых в/ книги образцов обоев)
, and tins of enamel (и банок с эмалью)
. He stood pretending to examine these things, and coveting, passionately desiring the green door (он стоял, делая вид, что рассматривает эти вещи, но /на самом деле/ жаждал, страстно желал /вернуться/ к зеленой двери).
whistle ['wɪsl], plumber ['plʌmǝ], passionate ['pæʃǝnɪt]
Wallace described all these moments of hesitation to me with the utmost particularity. He went right past the door, and then, with his hands in his pockets, and making an infantile attempt to whistle, strolled right along beyond the end of the wall. There he recalls a number of mean, dirty shops, and particularly that of a plumber and decorator, with a dusty disorder of earthenware pipes, sheet lead, ball taps, pattern books of wall paper, and tins of enamel. He stood pretending to examine these things, and coveting, passionately desiring the green door.
Then, he said, he had a gust of emotion (затем, он сказал, у него была = его охватила буря эмоций; gust – взрыв /гнева и т. п./). He made a run for it (он помчался к ней), lest hesitation should grip him again (пока колебания снова не охватили его), he went plump with outstretched hand through the green door and let it slam behind him