Tender is the night / Ночь нежна. Книга для чтения на английском языке

“I don’t see what it’s all about,” he said helplessly. “I don’t see why I’m doing it.”

It was the first thing he had ever done in his life. Actually he was one of those for whom the sensual world does not exist, and faced with a concrete fact he brought to it a vast surprise.

“We might as well be going[88 - We might as well be going – Пожалуй, нам пора идти],” said Abe, seeing him fail a little.

“All right.” He drank off a stiff drink of brandy, put the flask in his pocket, and said with almost a savage air: “What’ll happen if I kill him – will they throw me in jail?”

“I’ll run you over the Italian border.

He glanced at Rosemary – and then said apologetically to Abe:

“Before we start there’s one thing I’d like to see you about alone[89 - there’s one thing I’d like to see you about alone – я хотел бы поговорить с тобой кое о чем наедине].”

“I hope neither of you gets hurt,” Rosemary said.

XI

She found Campion downstairs in the deserted lobby.

“I saw you go upstairs,” he said excitedly. “Is he all right? When is the duel going to be?”

“I don’t know.” She resented his speaking of it as a circus, with McKisco as the tragic clown.

“Will you go with me?” he demanded, with the air of having seats. “I’ve hired the hotel car.”

“I don’t want to go.

“Why not? I imagine it’ll take years off my life but I wouldn’t miss it for words[90 - I wouldn’t miss it for words – Я бы ни за что не променял участие в этом событии на рассказ о нем]. We could watch it from quite far away.”

“Why don’t you get Mr. Dumphry to go with you?”

His monocle fell out, with no whiskers to hide in[91 - with no whiskers to hide in – поскольку у него не было никакой растительности на лице, за которую монокль мог бы зацепиться] – he drew himself up.

“I never want to see him again.”

“Well, I’m afraid I can’t go. Mother wouldn’t like it.”

As Rosemary entered her room Mrs. Speers stirred sleepily and called to her:

“Where’ve you been?”

“I just couldn’t sleep. You go back to sleep, Mother.”

“Come in my room.