Английский с Дэвидом Г. Лоуренсом. Тень в розовом саду / D. H. Lawrence. The Shadow in the Rose Garden

 And having put the bond on herself, it was hardest to take it off. But now she hated everything and felt destructive. He stood with his back to the door, fixed, as if he would oppose her eternally, till she was extinguished. She looked at him. Her eyes were cold and hostile. His workman’s hands spread on the panels of the door behind him.

“You know I used to live here?” she began, in a hard voice, as if wilfully to wound him. He braced himself against her, and nodded.

“Well, I was companion to Miss Birch of Torril Hall – she and the rector were friends, and Archie was the rector’s son.” There was a pause. He listened without knowing what was happening.

He stared at his wife (он пристально глядел на жену). She was squatted in her white dress on the bed (она сидела на корточках в белом платье на кровати), carefully folding and re-folding the hem of her skirt (тщательно сгибая и разгибая подол юбки; carefully – осторожно; тщательно; careful – заботливый; старательный, тщательный; care – забота; внимание; тщательность; hem – подогнутый и подшитый край одежды). Her voice was full of hostility (ее голос был полон враждебности).

“He was an officer – a sub-lieutenant (он был офицером, младшим лейтенантом) – then he quarrelled with his colonel and came out of the army (потом он поссорился с полковником и ушел из армии). At any rate” – she plucked at her skirt hem (так или иначе, – она дернула подол юбки; at any rate – во всяком случае, как бы то ни было; rate – норма, размер; цена; оценка; to pluck – ощипывать /птицу/; дергать; тащить), her husband stood motionless, watching her movements which filled his veins with madness (ее муж стоял неподвижно, наблюдая за ее движениями, которые наполняли его вены бешенством; madness – сумасшествие; ярость, бешенство) – “he was awfully fond of me, and I was of him – awfully (он ужасно любил меня, а я его… ужасно; awfully – ужасно; /эмоц. – усил./ крайне, очень; awful – страшный, ужасный; внушающий страх, благоговение; awe – благоговейный страх, трепет; fond – любящий).”

“How old was he?” asked the husband (сколько ему было лет? – спросил муж).

“When – when I first knew him (когда – когда я только с ним познакомилась)? Or when he went away (или когда он уехал…)? – ”

 He stared at his wife. She was squatted in her white dress on the bed, carefully folding and re-folding the hem of her skirt. Her voice was full of hostility.

“He was an officer – a sub-lieutenant – then he quarrelled with his colonel and came out of the army. At any rate” – she plucked at her skirt hem, her husband stood motionless, watching her movements which filled his veins with madness – “he was awfully fond of me, and I was of him – awfully.”

“How old was he?” asked the husband.

“When – when I first knew him? Or when he went away? —”