Английский с Эдгаром По. Падение дома Ашеров

Hitherto she had steadily borne up against the pressure of her malady, and had not betaken herself finally to bed; but, on the closing in of the evening of my arrival at the house, she succumbed (as her brother told me at night with inexpressible agitation) to the prostrating power of the destroyer; and I learned that the glimpse I had obtained of her person would thus probably be the last I should obtain – that the lady, at least while living, would be seen by me no more.

For several days ensuing (в течение нескольких дней, последовавших /за этим/), her name was unmentioned by either Usher or myself (ее имя было неупомянуто =

не упоминалось ни Ашером, ни мной самим): and during this period I was busied in earnest endeavours to alleviate the melancholy of my friend (и в течение этого времени я был занят серьезными усилиями облегчить тоску моего друга). We painted and read together (мы писали красками и читали вместе); or I listened, as if in a dream, to the wild improvisations of his speaking guitar

(или я слушал, как будто во сне, неистовые импровизации его говорящей гитары).

For several days ensuing, her name was unmentioned by either Usher or myself: and during this period I was busied in earnest endeavours to alleviate the melancholy of my friend. We painted and read together; or I listened, as if in a dream, to the wild improvisations of his speaking guitar.

And thus, as a closer and still intimacy admitted me more unreservedly into the recesses of his spirit (и так, в то время как теснейшая и тихая дружба допускала меня более неограниченно в тайники его души;

close – близкий; closer – более близкий), the more bitterly did I perceive the futility of all attempt at cheering a mind (тем более горько = с большей горечью я осознавал тщетность всякой попытки развеселить такой ум) from which darkness, as if an inherent positive quality, poured forth upon all objects of the moral and physical universe

(из которого тьма, будто неотъемлемое положительное = реальное качество, изливалась на все предметы нравственной и физической вселенной), in one unceasing radiation of gloom (одним непрекращающимся излучением уныния).

And thus, as a closer and still intimacy admitted me more unreservedly into the recesses of his spirit, the more bitterly did I perceive the futility of all attempt at cheering a mind from which darkness, as if an inherent positive quality, poured forth upon all objects of the moral and physical universe, in one unceasing radiation of gloom.