)
. When it reached the house it domesticated itself at once (когда он дошел до дома, он освоился сразу же: «одомашнил себя»)
, and became immediately a great favorite with my wife (и немедленно стал большим любимцем у моей жены;
to become).
I continued my caresses, and, when I prepared to go home, the animal evinced a disposition to accompany me. I permitted it to do so; occasionally stooping and patting it as I proceeded. When it reached the house it domesticated itself at once, and became immediately a great favorite with my wife.
For my own part, I soon found a dislike to it arising within me (с моей стороны, я вскоре обнаружил, что какая-то неприязнь к нему поднимается во мне: «нашел неприязнь поднимающейся»; to find). This was just the reverse of what I had anticipated (это было прямо обратное тому, чего я ожидал); but – I know not how or why it was – its evident fondness for myself rather disgusted and annoyed me (но – я не знаю, как и почему это было /так/ – его очевидная симпатия ко мне немало отвращала и злила меня). By slow degrees, these feelings of disgust and annoyance rose into the bitterness of hatred (медленными степенями = постепенно эти чувства отвращения и злобы поднялись = выросли в горечь ненависти; degree – градус; степень; ступень; to rise – подниматься). I avoided the creature (я избегал это животное); a certain sense of shame, and the remembrance of my former deed of cruelty, preventing me from physically abusing it (/при том, что/ какое-то чувство стыда и воспоминание о моем прежнем жестоком поступке мешало мне физически мучить его; deed – поступок; cruelty – жестокость; to prevent from – предотвращать от = мешать).

For my own part, I soon found a dislike to it arising within me. This was just the reverse of what I had anticipated; but – I know not how or why it was – its evident fondness for myself rather disgusted and annoyed me. By slow degrees, these feelings of disgust and annoyance rose into the bitterness of hatred. I avoided the creature; a certain sense of shame, and the remembrance of my former deed of cruelty, preventing me from physically abusing it.
I did not, for some weeks, strike, or otherwise violently ill use it (несколько недель я не бил и не мучил его как-либо иначе; otherwise – иначе; to ill use – плохо обращаться; violently – жестоко; с применением силы