Английский для смелых. Истории о духах и привидениях / Great Ghost Stories - страница 21
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). There was the same concentration of expression (та же глубина чувств читалась на лице: «там была та же концентрация выражения»; expression – выражение /лица, глаз и т. п./). While I was yet observing him, the door opened, and Jacob brought in the supper (в то время как я все еще так наблюдал за ним, открылась дверь, и Джейкоб стал накрывать ужин: «принес ужин»; to bring). His master then closed his book, rose (/тогда/ его хозяин закрыл книгу, поднялся; to rise), and with more courtesy of manner than he had yet shown, invited me to the table (и с большей учтивостью, чем он до сих пор проявил, пригласил меня к столу; courtesy – учтивость, обходительность; manner – манера, поведение; to show – показывать; проявлять, выказывать /эмоции/).
I stared about me with an amazement increased by every fresh object upon which my eyes chanced to rest. So strange a room I had never seen; yet seemed it stranger still, to find such a room in a lone farmhouse amid those wild and solitary moors! Over and over again, I looked from my host to his surroundings, and from his surroundings back to my host, asking myself who and what he could be? His head was singularly fine; but it was more the head of a poet than of a philosopher. Broad in the temples, prominent over the eyes, and clothed with a rough profusion of perfectly white hair, it had all the ideality and much of the ruggedness that characterises the head of Louis von Beethoven. There were the same deep lines about the mouth, and the same stern furrows in the brow. There was the same concentration of expression. While I was yet observing him, the door opened, and Jacob brought in the supper. His master then closed his book, rose, and with more courtesy of manner than he had yet shown, invited me to the table.
A dish of ham and eggs (ветчину с яйцами; dish – блюдо), a loaf of brown bread (буханку ржаного: «коричневого» хлеба), and a bottle of admirable sherry (и бутылку превосходного хереса), were placed before me (поставили передо мной).
‘I have but the homeliest farmhouse fare to offer you, sir,’ said my entertainer (я могу предложить вам лишь самую скромную снедь фермера, – сказал мой хозяин; homely – простой, обыденный, безыскусственный; farmhouse – жилой дом на ферме; fare – режим питания; провизия, съестные припасы; пища; to entertain – принимать, угощать