Английский с Эдгаром По. Падение дома Ашеров / Edgar Allan Poe. The Fall of the House of Usher. Эдгар Аллан По

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I quivered not in a muscle. My heart beat calmly as that of one who slumbers in innocence. I walked the cellar from end to end. I folded my arms upon my bosom, and roamed easily to and fro. The police were thoroughly satisfied and prepared to depart. The glee at my heart was too strong to be restrained. I burned to say if but one word, by way of triumph, and to render doubly sure their assurance of my guiltlessness.

      “Gentlemen,” I said at last, as the party ascended the steps (господа, – сказал я наконец, пока отряд поднимался по ступенькам), “I delight to have allayed your suspicions (я рад, что успокоил ваши подозрения; to delight – наслаждаться, восхищаться). I wish you all health, and a little more courtesy (я желаю вам всем здоровья и немного больше учтивости). By the bye, gentlemen, this – this is a very well constructed house (кстати, господа, это – это очень хорошо построенный дом).” (In the rabid desire to say something easily, I scarcely knew what I uttered at all.) (в бешеном желании сказать что-нибудь запросто я едва знал, что я вообще произношу; at all – вообще) – “I may say an excellently well constructed house (могу сказать, отменно хорошо построенный дом). These walls – are you going, gentlemen? – these walls are solidly put together (эти стены – вы /уже/ уходите, господа? – эти стены прочно собраны: «вместе»; to put together – составлять, собирать);” and here, through the mere frenzy of bravado (и тут, в чистейшем безумии напускной смелости; through – через, сквозь; посредством), I rapped heavily, with a cane which I held in my hand, upon that very portion of the brick-work (я тяжело постучал тростью, которую держал в руке, по той самой части кирпичной кладки) behind which stood the corpse of the wife of my bosom (за которой стоял труп моей дорогой супруги: «труп жены моей груди»; to stand – стоять).

“Gentlemen,” I said at last, as the party ascended the steps, “I delight to have allayed your suspicions. I wish you all health, and a little more courtesy. By the bye, gentlemen, this – this is a very well constructed house.” (In the rabid desire to say something easily, I scarcely knew what I uttered at all.) – “I may say an excellently well constructed house. These walls – are you going, gentlemen? – these walls are solidly put together;” and here, through the mere frenzy of bravado, I rapped heavily, with a cane which I held in my hand, upon that very portion of the brick-work behind which stood the corpse of the wife of my bosom.

      But may God shield and deliver me from the fangs of the Arch-Fiend (но да защитит и избавит меня Господь от клыков Первоврага = Сатаны)! No sooner had the reverberation of my blows sunk into silence (не успел отзвук моих ударов погрузиться в тишину = затихнуть; sooner – раньше: «не раньше звук затих, чем…»; to sink – тонуть, погружаться), than I was answered by a voice from within the tomb (как мне ответил голос изнутри склепа: «мне было отвечено голосом…»; than – чем)! – by a cry, at first muffled and broken, like the sobbing of a child (криком, сперва приглушенным и прерывистым, как плач ребенка), and then quickly swelling into one long, loud, and continuous scream (а затем быстро разросшимся в один долгий, громкий и непрерывный ор), utterly anomalous and inhuman – a howl – a wailing shriek (совершенно ненормальный и нечеловеческий – вой – жалобный визг), half of horror and half of triumph (наполовину – ужаса и наполовину – торжества), such as might have arisen only out of hell (такой, какой мог вырваться лишь из ада; to arise – восстать), conjointly from the throats of the damned in their agony (сообща из глоток проклятых в их муках) and of the demons that exult in the damnation (и /из глоток/ бесов, которые буйно радуются проклятию).

But may God shield and deliver me from the fangs of the Arch-Fiend! No sooner had the reverberation of my blows sunk into silence, than I was answered by a voice from within the tomb! – by a cry, at first muffled and broken, like the sobbing of a child, and then quickly swelling into one long, loud, and continuous scream, utterly anomalous and inhuman – a howl – a wailing shriek, half of horror and half of triumph, such as might have arisen only out of hell, conjointly from the throats of the damned in their agony and of the demons that exult in the damnation.

      Of my own thoughts it is folly to speak (о моих собственных мыслях глупо говорить: «глупость – говорить»). Swooning, I staggered to the opposite wall (лишаясь чувств, я отшатнулся к противоположной стене). For one instant the party upon the stairs remained motionless (на одно мгновение люди на лестнице оставались неподвижны; party – отряд, компания, группа; stairs – ступеньки; лестница), through extremity of terror and of awe (из-за крайности ужаса и трепета; through – через, сквозь; посредством). In the next, a dozen stout arms were toiling at the wall (в следующее /мгновение/ дюжина крепких рук заколотила по стене; to СКАЧАТЬ