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I thought, perhaps, Dr Livesey — — ' I began.
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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.
1. 'Perfectly right (совершенно верно),' he interrupted, very cheerily (он перебил /меня/, очень весело = живо), 'perfectly right — a gentleman and a magistrate (/он/ джентльмен и судья). And, now I come to think of it (я теперь /и сам/ прихожу к мысли), I might as well ride round there myself and report to him or squire (/что/ я мог бы тоже поехать туда сам и доложить ему или сквайру /о случившемся/). Master Pew's dead, when all's done (господин Пью мертв, как-никак: «если все сделано»); not that I regret it, but he's dead, you see (не то, чтобы я об этом жалею, но он мертв, понимаешь), and people will make it out against an officer of his Majesty's revenue (а люди поймут это против = взвалят вину на офицера финансового управления его Величества), if make it out they can (если поймут это /таким образом/, /как/ они могут = могут найтись и такие; to make out — понять, увидеть, разобрать). Now, I'll tell you, Hawkins: if you like, I'll take you along (если хочешь, я возьму тебя с собой).'
2. I thanked him heartily for the offer (я поблагодарил его искренне за предложение), and we walked back to the hamlet where the horses were (мы пошли назад к деревушке, где были лошади). By the time I had told mother of my purpose (к тому времени, /как/ я рассказал матери о своем намерении) they were all in the saddle (они все были готовы; to be in the saddle — быть в готовности: «в седле»).
3. 'Dogger (Доггер),' said Mr Dance, 'you have a good horse (у вас хороший конь); take up this lad behind you (посадите: «возьмите» этого парня позади себя).'
4. As soon as I was mounted (как только я сел в седло: «был усажен /в седло/»), holding on to Dogger's belt (держась за пояс Доггера), the supervisor gave the word (надзиратель отдал приказание), and the party struck out at a bouncing trot on the road to Dr Livesey's house (и отряд поскакал крупной рысью к дому доктора Ливси; to strike out — направляться; on the road — в дороге, в пути).
cheerily [`CIqlI] revenue [`revInjH] purpose [`pq:pqs] mounted [`mauntId] bouncing [`baunsIN]
1. 'Perfectly right,' he interrupted, very cheerily, 'perfectly right — a gentleman and a magistrate. And, now I come to think of it, I might as well ride round there myself and report to him or squire. Master Pew's dead, when all's done; not that I regret it, but he's dead, you see, and people will make it out against an officer of his Majesty's revenue, if make it out they can. Now, I'll tell you, Hawkins: if you like, I'll take you along.'
I thanked him heartily for the offer, and we walked back to the hamlet where the horses were. By the time I had told mother of my purpose they were all in the saddle.
3. 'Dogger,' said Mr Dance, 'you have a good horse; take up this lad behind you.'
As soon as I was mounted, holding on to Dogger's belt, the supervisor gave the word, and the party struck out at a bouncing trot on the road to Dr Livesey's house.
Chapter VI (глава 6)
The Captain's Papers (бумаги капитана) 1. WE rode hard all the way (мы мчались во весь опор всю дорогу; to ride hard — нестись), till we drew up before Dr Livesey's door (пока не остановились перед дверью доктора Ливси; to draw up — остановиться, подтянуться). The house was all dark to the front (дом был весь темный с фасада).
2. Mr. Dance told me to jump down and knock (сказал мне спрыгнуть /с лошади/ и постучать /в дверь/), and Dogger gave me a stirrup to descend by (Доггер подставил мне стремя, чтобы /удобнее было/ сойти; to descend — спуститься). The door was opened almost at once by the maid (дверь была открыта почти сразу служанкой).
3. 'Is Dr. Livesey in (доктор Ливси дома)?' I asked.
4. No, she said; he had come home in the afternoon (он приходил домой днем), but had gone up to the Hall to dine and pass the evening with the squire (но ушел в усадьбу пообедать и провести вечер со сквайром; hall — усадьба, поместье, вестибюль).
knock [nOk] stirrup [`stIrqp] descend [dI`send] dine [daIn]
WE rode hard all the way, till we drew up before Dr Livesey's door. The house was all dark to the front.
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