The Old Curiosity Shop / Лавка древностей

The Old Curiosity Shop / Лавка древностей

Чарльз Диккенс

Сергей Александрович Матвеев

Легко читаем по-английски

Роман Чарльза Дикенса «Лавка древностей» – это история о молодой девушке Нелли и ее деде, отправляющихся бродяжничать по дорогам викторианской Англии. На пути они встретят множество людей: как отзывчивых и готовых помочь путникам, так и тех, кто с пренебрежением пройдет мимо.

Для удобства читателя текст сопровождается комментариями и кратким словарем.

Предназначается для продолжающих изучать английский язык (уровень 4 – Upper-Intermediate).

Чарльз Диккенс / Charles Dickens

Лавка древностей / The Old Curiosity Shop

© Матвеев С.

А., адаптация текста, словарь, 2018

В© РћРћРћ В«Р?здательство РђРЎРўВ», 2018

1

A little girl stopped at a door and knocked at it. A part of this door was of glass, unprotected by any shutter. When she had knocked twice or thrice, there was a noise as if some person were moving inside. He was an old man with long grey hair, he held the light above his head and looked before him.

There was something of that delicate mould which one could notice in the child. Their bright blue eyes were certainly alike, but his face was deeply furrowed.

The place was one of the receptacles for old and curious things. There were suits of mail standing like ghosts in armour, here and there; fantastic carvings from monkish cloisters; rusty weapons of various kinds; figures in china[1 - in china – из фарфора], and wood, and iron, and ivory; tapestry, and strange furniture.

The old man was wonderfully suited to the place.

“Why bless thee, child,” said the old man pitting the girl on the head, “didn’t you miss your way? What if I had lost you, Nelly[2 - Nelly – Нелли]?

“I will always find my way back to you, grandfather,” said the child boldly: “never fear.”

The child took a candle and tripped into her little room.