He slipped into the familiar lie (он свернул на привычную дорожку лжи: «соскользнул в знакомую ложь»;
"You're sweet to me (ты /такой/ милый со мной;
"You bitch (сука)," he said. "You rich bitch (богатая сука). That's poetry (это поэзия). I'm full of poetry now (я сейчас полон поэзии). Rot and poetry (гнили и поэзии). Rotten poetry (гнилой поэзии)."
"Stop it (прекрати). Harry, why do you have to turn into a devil now (зачем тебе понадобилось становиться сейчас дьяволом;
"I don't like to leave anything (я ничего не хочу оставлять)," the man said. "I don't like to leave things behind (я ничего не хочу оставлять после /себя/)."
amusing [q'mjHzIN], alive [q'laIv], familiar [fq'mIlIq], poetry ['pqVItrI]
"All right then. I'll go on hurting you. It's more amusing. The only thing I ever really liked to do with you I can't do now."
"No, that's not true. You liked to do many things and everything you wanted to do I did."
"Oh, for Christ sake stop bragging, will you?"
He looked at her and saw her crying.
"Listen," he said. "Do you think that it is fun to do this? I don't know why I'm doing it. It's trying to kill to keep yourself alive, I imagine. I was all right when we started talking. I didn't mean to start this, and now I'm crazy as a coot and being as cruel to you as I can be. Don't pay any attention, darling, to what I say. I love you, really. You know I love you. I've never loved any one else the way I love you."
He slipped into the familiar lie he made his bread and butter by.
"You're sweet to me."
"You bitch," he said. "You rich bitch. That's poetry. I'm full of poetry now. Rot and poetry. Rotten poetry."
"Stop it. Harry, why do you have to turn into a devil now?"
"I don't like to leave anything," the man said. "I don't like to leave things behind."
It was evening now (теперь был =
"Memsahib's gone to shoot (мемсаиб пошла стрелять;
"Nothing (ничего)."
She had gone to kill a piece of meat (она пошла добыть мясо = дичь: «убить кусок мяса») and, knowing how he liked to watch the game (и, зная, как он любит смотреть на дичь;
shadow ['SxdqV], heavily ['hevIlI]