Английский язык с Марком Твеном. Принц и нищий / Mark Twain. The Prince and the Pauper

He bent over the boy and contemplated him with kind and pitying interest, tapping the young cheek tenderly and smoothing back the tangled curls with his great brown hand. A slight shiver passed over the boy's form. Hendon muttered:

'See, now, how like a man it was to let him lie here uncovered and fill his body with deadly rheums. Now what shall I do? 'Twill wake him to take him up and put him within the bed, and he sorely needeth sleep.'

He looked about for extra covering, but finding none, doffed his doublet and wrapped the lad in it, saying, 'I am used to nipping air and scant apparel, 'tis little I shall mind the cold' — then walked up and down the room to keep his blood in motion, soliloquizing as before.

'His injured mind persuades him he is Prince of Wales; 'twill be odd to have a Prince of Wales still with us, now that he that was the prince is prince no more, but king — for this poor mind is set upon the one fantasy, and will not reason out that now it should cast by the prince and call itself the king.... If my father liveth still, after these seven years that I have heard naught from home in my foreign dungeon, he will welcome the poor lad and give him generous shelter for my sake; so will my good elder brother, Arthur; my other brother, Hugh — but I will crack his crown, an’ he interfere, the fox-hearted, ill-conditioned animal! Yes, thither will we fare — and straightway, too.'

A servant entered with a smoking meal (слуга вошел с дымящейся едой; to smoke), disposed it upon a small deal table (поставил ее на маленький сосновый стол), placed the chairs (расставил стулья), and took his departure (и ушел: «взял свой уход»), leaving such cheap lodgers as these (оставляя таких дешевых постояльцев как эти) to wait upon themselves (прислуживать самим себе). The door slammed after him (дверь хлопнула за ним), and the noise woke the boy (и шум разбудил мальчика), who sprung to a sitting posture (который быстро сел: «прыгнул в сидячее положение»), and shot a glad glance about him (и кинул довольный взгляд вокруг себя); then a grieved look came into his face (затем печальное выражение появилось у него на лице) and he murmured to himself (и он пробормотал к себе = себе под нос), with a deep sigh (с глубоким вздохом), 'Alack, it was but a dream (увы, это был только сон). Woe is me (горе мне).' Next he noticed Miles Hendon's doublet (затем он заметил камзол Майлса Хендона) — glanced from that to Hendon (взглянул с него на Хендона), comprehended the sacrifice that had been made for him (понял жертву, которая была сделана ради него), and said, gently (и сказал мягко):

'Thou art good to me (ты добр ко мне), yes, thou art very good to me (да, ты очень добр ко мне). Take it and put it on (возьми это и надень) — I shall not need it more (мне он больше не понадобится).'

Then he got up and walked to the washstand in the corner (затем он встал и подошел к умывальнику в углу), and stood there waiting (и стал там, ожидая). Hendon said in a cheery voice (Хендон сказал веселым голосом):

'We'll have a right hearty sup and bite now (мы съедим хороший горячий ужин; sup — глоток; bite — кусок), for everything is savory and smoking hot (потому что все вкусно и дымится горячо), and that and thy nap (и это и твой сон) together will make thee a little man again (вместе сделают тебя маленьким мужчиной снова), never fear (никогда не бойся = будь уверен)!'