Thus was the edifice of my brief dream of happiness dashed (таким образом воздушный замок: «здание» моей быстротечной мечты о счастье обрушился;
dash [dxS], declaration ["deklq'reIS(q)n], smile [smaIl]
Dejah Thoris, after a few words, turned and left the apartment, still followed by her guards.
Thus was the edifice of my brief dream of happiness dashed, broken, to the ground of reality. The woman for whom I had offered my life, and from whose lips I had so recently heard a declaration of love for me, had lightly forgotten my very existence and smilingly given herself to the son of her people's most hated enemy.
Although I had heard it with my own ears (хотя я слышал это своими собственными ушами) I could not believe it (я не мог этому поверить). I must search out her apartments (я должен разыскать ее апартаменты) and force her to repeat the cruel truth to me alone (и заставить ее повторить жестокую правду мне самому) before I would be convinced (прежде, чем я буду убежден /в этом/), and so I deserted my post (поэтому я покинул свой пост) and hastened through the passage behind the tapestries toward the door (и поспешил по проходу позади гобеленов по направлению к двери) by which she had left the chamber (через которую она покинула комнату). Slipping quietly through this opening (тихонько проскользнув через этот проход) I discovered a maze of winding corridors (я обнаружил лабиринт извилистых коридоров), branching and turning in every direction (которые разветвлялись и поворачивали во всех направлениях).
although [O: l'Dou], slip [slIp], deserted [dI'zWtId]
Although I had heard it with my own ears I could not believe it. I must search out her apartments and force her to repeat the cruel truth to me alone before I would be convinced, and so I deserted my post and hastened through the passage behind the tapestries toward the door by which she had left the chamber. Slipping quietly through this opening I discovered a maze of winding corridors, branching and turning in every direction.
Running rapidly down the first one and then another of them (/когда/ я побежал по первому из них, а затем по другому) I soon became hopelessly lost (я вскоре безнадежно заблудился) and was standing panting against a side wall (и стоял, задыхаясь, возле боковой стены;
partition [pQ:'tIS(q)n], possibly ['pOsqblI], mistaken [mI'steIk(q)n]