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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.
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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.
This quarrel was the saving of us (эта ссора была спасением для нас); for while it was still raging (пока она все еще бушевала), another sound came from the top of the hill on the side of the hamlet (другой звук донесся с вершины холма со стороны деревушки) — the tramp of horses galloping (топот скачущих галопом лошадей). Almost at the same time a pistol-shot, flash and report (почти в тот же момент пистолетный выстрел, вспышка и звук выстрела; report — звенящее эхо /обычно от звука взрыва, выстрела/), came from the hedge-side (пришли = донеслись со стороны изгороди). And that was plainly the last signal of danger (и это был, очевидно, последний сигнал опасности); for the buccaneers turned at once and ran (потому что пираты развернулись сразу и побежали), separating in every direction (разделяясь во всех направлениях), one seaward along the cove (кто-то /побежал/ в сторону моря, через = по берегу моря), one slant across the hill (кто-то по склону холма), and so on (и так далее), so that in half a minute not a sign of them remained but Pew (так что через полминуты ни следа их не осталось, кроме Пью). Him they had deserted (его они бросили; to desert — покидать, бросать), whether in sheer panic or out of revenge for his ill words and blows, I know not (либо в полной панике = убегая в паническом страхе, либо из мести за его дурные слова и удары, я не знаю; ill — больной; плохой; sheer — абсолютный, полнейший, сущий, явный); but there he remained behind (но там он остался /один/), tapping up and down the road in frenzy (стуча палкой там и сям по дороге в исступлении; frenzy — безумие, бешенство), and groping and calling for his comrades (протягивая руки и зовя своих товарищей; to grope — ощупывать, идти ощупью). Finally he took the wrong turn (в конце концов, он повернул не туда: «взял неправильный поворот»), and ran a few steps past me (и пробежал в нескольких шагах от меня; past — мимо, за, по ту сторону), towards the hamlet, crying (по направлению к деревне, крича): —
quarrel [`kwOrql] raging [`reIGIN] deserted [dI`zq:tId] revenge [rI`venG]
This quarrel was the saving of us; for while it was still raging, another sound came from the top of the hill on the side of the hamlet — the tramp of horses galloping. Almost at the same time a pistol-shot, flash and report, came from the hedge-side. And that was plainly the last signal of danger; for the buccaneers turned at once and ran, separating in every direction, one seaward along the cove, one slant across the hill, and so on, so that in half a minute not a sign of them remained but Pew. Him they had deserted, whether in sheer panic or out of revenge for his ill words and blows, I know not; but there he remained behind, tapping up and down the road in frenzy, and groping and calling for his comrades. Finally he took the wrong turn, and ran a few steps past me, towards the hamlet, crying: —
1. 'Johnny, Black Dog, Dirk (Джонни, Черный Пес, Дэрк),' and other names (/он называл/ и другие имена), 'you won't leave old Pew, mates — not old Pew (вы /же/ не оставите старого Пью, друзья, не оставите; won't = will not)!'
2. Just then the noise of horses topped the rise (сразу после этого шум = топот лошадей доносился с /вершины/ холма; to top — покрывать, переваливать, подниматься; rise — возвышенность, холм, восход), and four or five riders came in sight in the moonlight (четыре или пять всадников показались в лунном свете; to come in sight — появиться в поле зрения), and swept at full gallop down the slope (и пронеслись во весь опор вниз по склону; to sweep — сметать, сносить, мчаться).
3. At this Pew saw his error (тут Пью увидел свою ошибку), turned with a scream (повернулся с воплем), and ran straight for the ditch (побежал прямо к канаве), into which he rolled (в которую скатился). But he was on his feet again in a second (но он был на ногах = поднялся через момент), and made another dash (выскочил /на дорогу/; dash — порыв, стремительное движение), now utterly bewildered (теперь совершенно растерянный), right under the nearest of the coming horses (прямо под /ноги/ ближайшей из приближающихся лошадей).
horses [`hLsIz] rider [`raIdq] sight [saIt] error [`erq] bewildered [bI`wIldqd]
1. 'Johnny, Black Dog, Dirk,' and other names, 'you won't leave old Pew, mates — not old Pew!'
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