Английский с А. Конан Дойлем. Пиратские истории / A. Conan Doyle. Tales of Pirates - страница 28

 The idea seemed to amuse the Governor, for he broke suddenly into a high, neighing laugh, and the two seamen laughed also, but not so heartily, for they remembered that Sharkey was not the last pirate who sailed the western seas, and that as grotesque a fate might come to be their own. Another bottle was broached to drink to a pleasant voyage, and the Governor would drink just one other on the top of it, so that the seamen were glad at last to stagger off – the one to his watch and the other to his bunk. But when after his four hours’ spell the mate came down again, he was amazed to see the Governor in his Ramillies wig, his glasses, and his powdering-gown still seated sedately at the lonely table with his reeking pipe and six black bottles by his side.

“I have drunk with the Governor of St. Kitt’s when he was sick,” said he (я пил с губернатором Сент-Китта, когда он был болен, – сказал он /себе/), “and God forbid that I should ever try to keep pace with him when he is well (но упаси меня Господь когда-нибудь попытаться не отстать от него, когда он выздоровеет; to forbid – запрещать, не позволять; to keep pace – держать шаг, темп; to be well – быть здоровым).”

The voyage of the Morning Star was a successful one (плавание «Утренней звезды» было удачным), and in about three weeks she was at the mouth of the British Channel (и примерно через три недели она была у входа в Ла-Манш; mouth – рот, уста; устье, вход; British Channel – «Британский канал», пролив Ла-Манш). From the first day the infirm Governor had begun to recover his strength (/буквально/ с первого дня /пребывания на судне/ немощный губернатор стал восстанавливать силы; to begin), and before they were half-way across the Atlantic (и прежде чем они прошли полпути через Атлантику) he was, save only for his eyes, as well as any man upon the ship (он был, если не считать его глаз, так же здоров, как и любой другой на судне).