The day was ended (день закончился) — quite successfully, so far as she knew (вполне успешно, насколько ей было известно). The Trustees and the visiting committee had made their rounds (попечители и инспекционная комиссия совершили обход;
trustee [trA'sti:], committee [kq'mItI], curiosity ["kjV(q)rI'OsItI]
The day was ended — quite successfully, so far as she knew. The Trustees and the visiting committee had made their rounds, and read their reports, and drunk their tea, and now were hurrying home to their own cheerful firesides, to forget their bothersome little charges for another month. Jerusha leaned forward watching with curiosity — and a touch of wistfulness — the stream of carriages and automobiles that rolled out of the asylum gates.
In imagination she followed first one equipage (в своем воображении она последовала сперва за одним экипажем), then another (потом за другим), to the big houses dotted along the hillside (к большим домам, что были разбросаны по холму;
Jerusha had an imagination (Джеруша обладала воображением) — an imagination, Mrs. Lippett told her (таким воображением, говорила ей миссис Липпетт), that would get her into trouble if she didn't take care (из-за которого она попадет в беду, если не поостережется;
equipage ['ekwIpIdZ], feather ['feDq], nonchalantly ['nOnSqlqntlI]
In imagination she followed first one equipage, then another, to the big houses dotted along the hillside. She pictured herself in a fur coat and a velvet hat trimmed with feathers leaning back in the seat and nonchalantly murmuring `Home' to the driver. But on the door-sill of her home the picture grew blurred.
Jerusha had an imagination — an imagination, Mrs. Lippett told her, that would get her into trouble if she didn't take care — but keen as it was, it could not carry her beyond the front porch of the houses she would enter.
Poor, eager, adventurous little Jerusha (бедная, увлеченная, любящая приключения малышка Джеруша), in all her seventeen years (за все свои семнадцать лет), had never stepped inside an ordinary house (никогда не заходила в самый обычный дом); she could not picture the daily routine of those other human beings (она не могла представить себе распорядок дня =
Je-ru-sha Ab-bott
You are wan-ted