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He bade me go, and leave the door wide open. 'None of your keyholes for me, sonny,' he said; and I left them together and retired into the bar.
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- This, when it was brought to him, he drank slowly, like a connoisseur, lingering on the taste, and still looking about him at the cliffs and up at our signboard.
- He never wrote or received a letter, and he never spoke with any but the neighbours, and with these, for the most part, only when drunk on rum. The great sea-chest none of us had ever seen open.
- Then followed a battle of looks between them; but this captain soon knuckled under, put up his weapon, and resumed his seat, grumbling like a beaten dog.
- I told him he was out walking.
- At last in strode the captain, slammed the door behind him, without looking to the right or left, and marched straight across the room to where his breakfast awaited him.
- He bade me go, and leave the door wide open. 'None of your keyholes for me, sonny,' he said; and I left them together and retired into the bar.
- Jim,' says he, 'rum;' and as he spoke, he reeled a little and caught himself with one hand against the wall.
- That's not my name,' he interrupted.
- And he ran on again for a while with curses.
- When I brought it to him, he seized it greedily, and drank it out.
- Before I could do much to help him he had fallen back again to his former place, where he lay for a while silent.
- But what is the black spot, Captain?' I asked.
- Once, for instance, to our extreme wonder, he piped up to a different air, a kind of country love-song, that he must have learned in his youth before he had begun to follow the sea.
- And he gave it, as he spoke, a wrench that made me cry out.
- We both obeyed him to the letter, and I saw him pass something from the hollow of the hand that held his stick into the palm of the captain's, which closed upon it instantly.
- I LOST no time, of course, in telling my mother all that I knew, and perhaps should have told her long before, and we saw ourselves at once in a difficult and dangerous position.
- Give me the key,' said my mother; and though the lock was very stiff, she had turned it and thrown back the lid in a twinkling.
- I'll take what I have,' she said, jumping to her feet.
- Here, you below there, is it on Bill?' cried the blind man again.
- These, in their turn, cursed back at the blind miscreant, threatened him in horrid terms, and tried in vain to catch the stick and wrest it from his grasp.
- Just then the noise of horses topped the rise, and four or five riders came in sight in the moonlight, and swept at full gallop down the slope.
- I thought, perhaps, Dr Livesey — — ' I began.
- Mr. Dance told me to jump down and knock, and Dogger gave me a stirrup to descend by. The door was opened almost at once by the maid.
- At last Mr. Dance finished the story.
- And now, squire,' said the doctor.
- That was all; but brief as it was, and, to me, incomprehensible, it filled the squire and Dr. Livesey with delight.
- Dear Livesey, — as I do not know whether you are at the Hall or still in London, I send this in double to both places.
- At that I gave up all attempt at commentary, and read straight on: —
- Long John even got rid of two out of the six or seven had already engaged. He showed me in a moment that they were just the sort of fresh-water swabs we had to fear in an adventure of importance.
- P.P.S. — Hawkins may stay one night with his mother.
- And then, as Morgan rolled back to his seat, Silver added to me in a confidential whisper, that was very flattering, as I thought: —
- This last was a sharp-looking man, who seemed angry with everything on board, and was soon to tell us why, for we had hardly got down into the cabin when a sailor followed us.
- Livesey, that must have been you or Hawkins,' cried the squire.
- And with that he took his leave.
- The old one,' cried another.
- Yet some of the men who had sailed with him before expressed their pity to see him so reduced.
- Stand by to go about,' the parrot would scream.
- The squire, at this, would turn away and march up and down the deck, chin in air.
- Well, it aint much use, after all,' said the young seaman.
- Dick's square,' said Silver.
- Why, we're all seamen aboard here, I should think,' said the lad Dick.
- Terrified as I was, I could not help thinking to myself that this must have been how Mr. Arrow got the strong waters that destroyed him.
- The anchorage is on the south, behind an islet, I fancy?' asked the captain.
- And clapping me in the friendliest way upon the shoulder he hobbled off forward and went below.
- The cheer followed — that was a matter of course; but it rang out so full and hearty, that I confess I could hardly believe these same men were plotting for our blood.
- As upon myself,' declared the squire.
- I thought this was a very bad sign; for, up to that day, the men had gone briskly and willingly about their business; but the very sight of the island had relaxed the cords of discipline.
- We held a council in the cabin.
- At last, however, the party was made up. Six fellows were to stay on board, and the remaining thirteen, including Silver, began to embark.
- I WAS so pleased at having given the slip to Long John, that I began to enjoy myself and look around me with some interest on the strange land that I was in.
For a long time, though I certainly did my best to listen I could hear nothing but a low gabbling; but at last the voice began to grow higher, and I could pick up a word or two mostly oaths, from the captain.
3. 'No, no, no, no; and an end of it!' he cried once. And again 'If it comes to swinging, swing all, say I.'
1. Then all of a sudden (затем внезапно) there was a tremendous explosion of oaths and other noises (раздался ужасный взрыв ругательств и других шумов) — the chair and table went over in a lump (стул и стол упали на пол: «перешли в глыбу»), a clash of steel followed (лязг стали последовал), and then a cry of pain (и затем крик боли), and the next instant I saw Black Dog in full flight (в следующее мгновение я увидел, /как/ Черный Пес полностью сбегал = со всех ног убегал), and the captain hotly pursuing (а капитан с жаром преследовал /его/), both with drawn cutlasses (оба /были/ с обнаженными кортиками; to draw — тянуть, вытащить), and the forme' streaming blood from the left shoulder (и /у/ первого текла кровь из левого плеча; forme' = former —прежний, бывший, первый /из двух/). Just at the door (прямо у двери), that captain aimed at the fugitive one last tremendous cut (капитан прицелился в беглеца /чтобы нанести/ последний страшный порез = удар; to aim at — прицелиться, стремиться), which would certainly have split him to the chine (который наверняка расколол = разрубил бы его до хребта = пополам) had it not beer intercepted by our big signboard of Admiral Benbow (не будь он /клинок/ остановлен нашей большой вывеской «Адмирала Бенбоу»; to intercept — перехватить; преградить путь). You may see the notch on the lower side of the frame to this day (вы можете видеть зарубку на нижней стороне рамы до сих пор: «до этого дня»).
tremendous [trI`mendqs] explosion [Ik`splquZn] fugitive [`fjHGItIv] chine [CaIn]
Then all of a sudden there was a tremendous explosion of oaths and other noises — the chair and table went over in a lump, a clash of steel followed, and then a cry of pain, and the next instant I saw Black Dog in full flight, and the captain hotly pursuing, both with drawn cutlasses, and the forme' streaming blood from the left shoulder. Just at the door, that captain aimed at the fugitive one last tremendous cut, which would certainly have split him to the chine had it not beer intercepted by our big signboard of Admiral Benbow. You may see the notch on the lower side of the frame to this day.
1. That blow was the last of the battle (этот удар был концом схватки = на том все и кончилось). Once out upon that road (выскочив на ту дорогу; once — раз, как только; out — вне, снаружи), Black Dog, in spite of his wound (Черный Пес, несмотря на свою рану), showed a wonderful clean pair of heels (показал ловкую: «чистую» пару пяток = только пятки его сверкали, убегал очень быстро), and disappeared over the edge of the hill in half a minute (и исчез за кромкой холма в полминуты). The captain, for his part (капитан, со своей стороны; part — часть, роль), stood staring at the signboard like a bewildered man (стоял, таращась на вывеску, словно озадаченный человек = остолбенело; bewildered — смущенный, сбитый с толку). Then he passed his hand over his eyes several times (затем он провел рукой по глазам несколько раз: «времен»; to pass over — переправлять, пропускать), and at last turned back into the house (и, наконец, вернулся в дом).
2. 'Jim,' says he, 'rum (рому);' and as he spoke (когда он говорил = при этих словах), he reeled a little and caught himself with one hand against the wall (он покачнулся немного и поймал себя одной рукой у стены = оперся рукой о стену).
3. 'Are you hurt (вы ранены)?' cried I.
wonderful [`wAndqfl] edge [eG] bewildered [bI`wIldqd] hurt [hq:t]
That blow was the last of the battle. Once out upon that road, Black Dog, in spite of his wound, showed a wonderful clean pair of heels, and disappeared over the edge of the hill in half a minute. The captain, for his part, stood staring at the signboard like a bewildered man. Then he passed his hand over his eyes several times, and at last turned back into the house.
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