Mary Poppins / Мэри Поппинс. Книга для чтения на английском языке

She slid up the banisters![9 - She slid up the banisters! ['bænıstəz] – Она проехала вверх по перилам!] Jane and Michael could slide down the banisters and often did it, but slide upstairs – no! They could not do that! They were looking at their new nurse with great surprise.

“Children,” said Mrs. Banks, “this is your new nurse, Mary Poppins. Jane, Michael, say how do you do!” Mrs. Banks turned to Mary Poppins. “And these are the Twins,” she said to her and pointed to the babies in their cots.

Mary Poppins looked at the babies, then looked at Jane and Michael. Then she sniffed loudly.

“All right,” she said, “I’ll stay with you.”

Mrs. Banks left the Nursery. Mary Poppins was standing in the middle of the room. Jane and Michael went up to her.

“How did you come?” asked Jane. “Did the Wind blow you here?[10 - Did the Wind blow you here? – Вас принес сюда ветер?]”

“Yes, it did,” said Mary Poppins and took off her hat.

Then she opened her bag. And again Jane and Michael were very surprised, because the bag was empty!

“Why[11 - Why – Ой],” said Jane, “there is nothing in the bag!”

Mary Poppins looked at her. “Did you say �nothing’?”

And then she took out of the empty bag an apron and tied it round her waist[12 - round her waist [weıst] – вокруг талии]. Then she took out a piece of soap, a toothbrush, a bottle of scent, and a small folding armchair[13 - a small folding armchair ['fəuldıŋ'ɑ:mtʃɛə] – маленькое складно́е кресло].

“But I saw,” whispered Michael. “It was empty.”

Mary Poppins turned to the children.

“Now,” she said, “quick! Into bed!”

In a minute she undressed them and put them into bed.

Jane and Michael were sitting in their beds and watching how Mary Poppins was unpacking her bag.

She took out of the bag ten night-shirts, a pair of boots, a box of dominoes, two caps.

Then she took out a folding bed with pillows and blankets and put it on the floor between John’s and Barbara’s cots.

“Mary Poppins,” said Michael, “will you never leave us?” Mary Poppins looked at him.

“One more word from you,” she said, “and I’ll call the Policeman.”

“I only want to ask,” said Michael, “we hope you won’t go away soon?”

Mary Poppins sniffed.