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куда-л./
; to bind – вязать, связывать), he came to see me while I was breakfasting (он пришел навестить меня, в то время, когда я завтракал;
to see – видеть; повидаться, навестить), and told me that a sister of his (и сообщил мне, что его сестра;
to tell – рассказывать; говорить, сообщать) who had married a well-to-do tradesman and lived in the capital (которая замужем за богатым купцом и живет в столице), had invited him to occupy a room in her house (пригласила его занять /отдельную/ комнату в ее доме). He had gladly accepted, but now found (он с радостью согласился, но теперь полагает;
to find – находить, отыскивать; убеждаться, приходить к выводу) that his duties would not permit of his absence (что его обязанности не позволят ему отлучиться;
absence – отсутствие, отлучка). He begged therefore that (поэтому он просит, чтобы), if such humble (though, as he added, clean and comfortable) lodgings would satisfy me (если такое скромное (хотя, добавил он, чистое и уютное) жилище подойдет мне;
to satisfy – удовлетворять), I would take his place (я занял эту комнату вместо него: «занял его место»). He pledged his sister’s acquiescence (он уверял, что сестра согласится;
to pledge – отдавать в залог; давать обещание, заверять; acquiescence – уступка, согласие), and urged the inconvenience and crowding (и твердил о неудобствах и толкотне;
to urge – понуждать, подгонять; убеждать, настаивать) to which I should be subject in my journeys to and from Strelsau the next day (которым я буду подвергаться /во время/ поездки в Стрелсо и назад;
subject – подчиненный, зависимый; подверженный /
чему-л./). I accepted his offer without a moment’s hesitation (я принял его предложение, ни минуты не колеблясь), and he went off to telegraph to his sister (и он ушел, чтобы послать сестре телеграмму: «телеграфировать своей сестре»), while I packed up and prepared to take the next train (тогда как я уложил вещи и приготовился сесть на ближайший поезд;
next – следующий; ближайший).
I was not so unreasonable as to be prejudiced against the duke’s keeper because he disliked my complexion; and if I had been, his most civil and obliging conduct (as it seemed to me to be) next morning would have disarmed me. Hearing that I was bound for Strelsau, he came to see me while I was breakfasting, and told me that a sister of his who had married a well-to-do tradesman and lived in the capital, had invited him to occupy a room in her house. He had gladly accepted, but now found that his duties would not permit of his absence. He begged therefore that, if such humble (though, as he added, clean and comfortable) lodgings would satisfy me, I would take his place. He pledged his sister’s acquiescence, and urged the inconvenience and crowding to which I should be subject in my journeys to and from Strelsau the next day. I accepted his offer without a moment’s hesitation, and he went off to telegraph to his sister, while I packed up and prepared to take the next train.
But I still hankered after the forest and the hunting-lodge (но я все еще стремился /попасть/ в лес /поближе/ к охотничьему домику; to hanker – страстно желать, жаждать), and when my little maid told me that I could (и когда моя малышка-горничная поведала, что я могу), by walking ten miles or so through the forest (пройдя миль с десять через лес), hit the railway at a roadside station (достичь железной дороги неподалеку от небольшой станции;
