(мое удивление и мой ужас были чрезвычайными)
. But at length reflection came to my aid (но наконец размышление пришло мне на помощь)
. The cat, I remembered, had been hung in a garden adjacent to the house (кот, я вспомнил, был повешен в саду, прилегающем к дому)
. Upon the alarm of fire, this garden had been immediately filled by the crowd (при пожарной тревоге этот сад был немедленно заполнен толпой)
– by some one of whom the animal must have been cut from the tree (кем-то из каковой /толпы/ животное, должно быть, было срезано с дерева;
to cut)
and thrown, through an open window, into my chamber (и брошено в открытое окно в мою комнату;
to throw; through – через, сквозь).
When I first beheld this apparition – for I could scarcely regard it as less – my wonder and my terror were extreme. But at length reflection came to my aid. The cat, I remembered, had been hung in a garden adjacent to the house. Upon the alarm of fire, this garden had been immediately filled by the crowd – by some one of whom the animal must have been cut from the tree and thrown, through an open window, into my chamber.
This had probably been done with the view of arousing me from sleep (это, вероятно, было сделано с видом = с целью разбудить меня ото сна). The falling of other walls had compressed the victim of my cruelty into the substance of the freshly-spread plaster (падение других стен вдавило жертву моей жестокости в толщу свежеположенной штукатурки; to spread); the lime of which, with the flames, and the ammonia from the carcass, had then accomplished the portraiture as I saw it (известка которой, вместе с пламенем и аммиаком из развалин, довершили портрет, каким я увидел его).
This had probably been done with the view of arousing me from sleep. The falling of other walls had compressed the victim of my cruelty into the substance of the freshly-spread plaster; the lime of which, with the flames, and the ammonia from the carcass, had then accomplished the portraiture as I saw it.
Although I thus readily accounted to my reason, if not altogether to my conscience, for the startling fact just detailed (хотя я таким образом без труда объяснил моему рассудку, хоть и не вполне – моей совести, поразительный факт, только что описанный; to account for – объяснить: «отчитаться за»), it did not the less fail to make a deep impression upon my fancy (он все же не преминул произвести глубокое впечатление на мою фантазию; to fail – не суметь, не сделать). For months I could not rid myself of the phantasm of the cat (месяцами я не мог избавиться от призрака кота); and, during this period, there came back into my spirit a half-sentiment (и, в течение этого времени, вернулось в мою душу полу-чувство; to come back – вернуться: «прийти назад»; spirit – дух; душа) that seemed, but was not, remorse (которое казалось, но не было раскаянием).
Although I thus readily accounted to my reason, if not altogether to my conscience, for the startling fact just detailed, it did not the less fail to make a deep impression upon my fancy. For months I could not rid myself of the phantasm of the cat; and, during this period, there came back into my spirit a half-sentiment that seemed, but was not, remorse.
I went so far as to regret the loss of the animal
