When the others heard that, they began to laugh at him for being in such haste to go to his sweetheart, and one asked him if he would leave his school in the old lime-kiln, where he was giving the children such good learning. But he said the children would be glad enough in the morning to find the place empty, and no one to keep them at their task;
and as for his school he could set it up again in any place (а что касается школы, то он может снова организовать ее в любом другом месте; to set up – основывать, учреждать), having as he had his little inkpot hanging from his neck by a chain (имея, как он имел = имея всегда с собой свою маленькую чернильницу, висящую у него на шее на цепочке), and his big Virgil and his primer in the skirt of his coat (толстый том Вергилия: «своего большого Вергилия» и букварь под полой куртки; skirt – юбка; подол, пола).
Some of them asked him to drink a glass before he went (кто-то из них пригласил его выпить стаканчик, прежде чем он пойдет; to ask – спрашивать; приглашать), and a young man caught hold of his coat (а какой-то молодой парень схватил его за куртку; to catch hold of – схватить, ухватиться за /что-л./), and said he must not leave them without singing the song (и сказал, что он не должен уходить, не спев песни) he had made in praise of Venus and of Mary Lavelle (которую он сочинил во славу Венеры и Мэри Лэвелл; to make – создавать, сочинять; praise – похвала; прославление).
primer ['praɪmǝ], caught [kɔ:t], without [wɪ'ðaʋt]
and as for his school he could set it up again in any place, having as he had his little inkpot hanging from his neck by a chain, and his big Virgil and his primer in the skirt of his coat.
Some of them asked him to drink a glass before he went, and a young man caught hold of his coat, and said he must not leave them without singing the song he had made in praise of Venus and of Mary Lavelle.
He drank a glass of whiskey (он выпил стакан виски), but he said he would not stop but would set out on his journey (но сказал, что не будет задерживаться, а отправится в путь: «в свое путешествие»; to stop – останавливаться; оставаться непродолжительное время; to set out – отправляться /в путешествие/).
“There’s time enough, Red Hanrahan,” said the man of the house