Английский для смелых. Истории о духах и привидениях / Great Ghost Stories - страница 8

), she had implored me to return before dusk (она умоляла меня вернуться до наступления темноты; dusk – сумерки), and I had promised her that I would (и я ей это пообещал). What would I not have given to have kept my word (чего бы только я ни отдал, чтобы /быть в состоянии/ сдержать свое слово; to keep – держать; соблюдать; сдержать /слово/)!

Even now, weary as I was (даже сейчас, несмотря на всю свою усталость; weary – усталый, изнуренный), I felt that with a supper (я чувствовал, что если бы я поужинал: «что с ужином»), an hour’s rest (отдохнул часик: «часом отдыха»), and a guide (и нашел проводника: «и проводником»), I might still get back to her before midnight (я все еще мог бы вернуться к ней до полуночи), if only guide and shelter could be found (если только проводника и укрытие было возможно сыскать; to find).

 Meanwhile, the snow began to come down with ominous steadiness, and the wind fell. After this, the cold became more intense, and the night came rapidly up. As for me, my prospects darkened with the darkening sky, and my heart grew heavy as I thought how my young wife was already watching for me through the window of our little inn parlour, and thought of all the suffering in store for her throughout this weary night. We had been married four months, and, having spent our autumn in the Highlands, were now lodging in a remote little village situated just on the verge of the great English moorlands. We were very much in love, and, of course, very happy. This morning, when we parted, she had implored me to return before dusk, and I had promised her that I would. What would I not have given to have kept my word!

Even now, weary as I was, I felt that with a supper, an hour’s rest, and a guide, I might still get back to her before midnight, if only guide and shelter could be found.

And all this time, the snow fell and the night thickened (все это время падал снег и сгущалась ночь; thick – густой). I stopped and shouted every now and then (время от времени я останавливался и кричал; every – каждый; now and then – время от времени, иногда), but my shouts seemed only to make the silence deeper (но, казалось, от моих криков тишина только становилась глубже: «мои крики, казалось, только делали…»). Then a vague sense of uneasiness came upon me