Английский с Г. К. Честертоном. Случаи отца Брауна

 Even as he ducked and dived through the crowd he could still hear the magnificent melody and monotony of the solar priest still calling on the happy god who is the friend of fountains and flowers.

Father Brown found Flambeau and some six other people standing round the enclosed space into which the lift commonly descended. But the lift had not descended. Something else had descended; something that ought to have come by a lift.

For the last four minutes Flambeau had looked down on it (в течение последних четырех минут Фламбо смотрел «вниз» на это)

; had seen the brained and bleeding figure of that beautiful woman (и видел размозженную голову и окровавленную фигуру той прекрасной женщины; brain – головной мозг; to brain – размозжить голову; to bleed – кровоточить; истекать кровью) who denied the existence of tragedy (которая отрицала существование трагедий). He had never had the slightest doubt that it was Pauline Stacey

(он не имел ни малейших сомнений в том, что это была Полин Стэйси); and, though he had sent for a doctor (и, хотя он и послал за врачом; to send), he had not the slightest doubt that she was dead (он не имел ни малейших сомнений в том, что она мертва).

He could not remember for certain (он не мог вспомнить точно; for certain – подлинно, достоверно, определенно) whether he had liked her or disliked her (нравилась она ему или нет); there was so much both to like and dislike

(было /в ней/ много и того, что нравилось, и того, что нет; both… and – как…, так и).

 For the last four minutes Flambeau had looked down on it; had seen the brained and bleeding figure of that beautiful woman who denied the existence of tragedy. He had never had the slightest doubt that it was Pauline Stacey; and, though he had sent for a doctor, he had not the slightest doubt that she was dead.

He could not remember for certain whether he had liked her or disliked her; there was so much both to like and dislike.