"With final imprecations (с заключительными проклятиями;
disclose [dIs'klouz], torture ['tO: tSq], imprecation ["ImprI'keIS(q)n], outskirt ['autskWt]
"One thing she had not heard, nor did she know, the whispered name of my father. This was apparent from her repeated demands upon my mother to disclose the name of her partner in sin, but no amount of abuse or threats could wring this from her, and to save me from needless torture she lied, for she told Sarkoja that she alone knew nor would she even tell her child.
"With final imprecations, Sarkoja hastened away to Tal Hajus to report her discovery, and while she was gone my mother, wrapping me in the silks and furs of her night coverings, so that I was scarcely noticeable, descended to the streets and ran wildly away toward the outskirts of the city, in the direction which led to the far south, out toward the man whose protection she might not claim, but on whose face she wished to look once more before she died.
"As we neared the city's southern extremity (когда мы приблизились к южной окраине города) a sound came to us from across the mossy flat (до нас донесся звук через поросшую мхом равнину), from the direction of the only pass through the hills which led to the gates (со стороны единственного прохода через холмы, который вел к воротам), the pass by which caravans from either north or south or east or west would enter the city (прохода, по которому караваны с севера, юга, востока или запада входили в город). The sounds we heard were the squealing of thoats and the grumbling of zitidars (звук, который мы услышали, был визгом тотов и ворчанием зитидаров), with the occasional clank of arms (изредка /раздавалось/ бряцание оружия;
squealing ['skwi: lIN], grumbling ['grAmblIN], precipitate [prI'sIpItIt]