Купание в пруду под дождем

По переводу Н. Волжиной. – Здесь и далее примечания переводчика, кроме оговоренных особо.

Из рассказа «Гюи де Мопассан», цикл «Одесские рассказы» (1923–1924).

В переводе на английский, приведенном у автора, первый абзац текста выглядит так: «They drove out of the town at half past eight in the morning. The paved road was dry, a splendid April sun was shedding warmth, but there was still snow in the ditches and in the woods. Winter, evil, dark, long, had ended so recently; spring had arrived suddenly; but neither the warmth nor the languid, transparent woods, warmed by the breath of spring, nor the black flocks flying in the fields over huge puddles that were like lakes, nor this marvelous, immeasurably deep sky, into which it seemed that one would plunge with such joy, offered anything new and interesting to Marya Vasilyevna, who was sitting in the cart. She had been teaching school for thirteen years, and in the course of all those years she had gone to the town for her salary countless times; and whether it was spring, as now, or a rainy autumn evening, or winter, it was all the same to her, and what she always, invariably, longed for was to reach her destination as soon as possible». (Список англоязычных основных источников см. в конце книги)

Такова особенность этого упражнения в постраничном чтении: чем лучше рассказ, тем любопытнее читателю выяснить, что произойдет дальше, – и тем сильнее досаждает это упражнение. – Примечание автора.