Английский с Оскаром Уайльдом. Кентервильское привидение

Never having seen a ghost before (никогда раньше не видевший призрака), he naturally was terribly frightened (он, естественно, был ужасно напуган), and, after a second hasty glance at the awful phantom (и, после второго, торопливого взгляда в сторону ужасного фантома), he fled back to his room

(он убежал назад в свою комнату; to flee), tripping up in his long winding-sheet as he sped down the corridor (наступая на свой длинный саван и падая, в то время как он мчался вниз по коридору; to trip – спотыкаться, падать; to speed – двигаться поспешно; мчаться), and finally dropping the rusty dagger into the Minister’s jack-boots

(и, наконец, уронил ржавый кинжал в сапог посла; jack-boots – военные жесткие сапоги выше колен), where it was found in the morning by the butler (где он был найден утром дворецким). Once in the privacy of his own apartment (оказавшись наконец в уединении своей собственной комнаты), he flung himself down on a small pallet-bed

(он упал на маленький соломенный тюфяк; to fling oneself – броситься; to fling – бросать, швырять), and hid his face under the clothes (и спрятал лицо под одеждой). After a time, however (однако через некоторое время), the brave old Cantervill spirit asserted itself

(храбрый дух старого Кентервиля вновь заявил о себе), and he determined to go and speak to the other ghost (и он решил пойти и поговорить с другим призраком), as soon as it was daylight (как только появится дневной свет).

Never having seen a ghost before, he naturally was terribly frightened, and, after a second hasty glance at the awful phantom, he fled back to his room, tripping up in his long winding-sheet as he sped down the corridor, and finally dropping the rusty dagger into the Minister’s jack-boots, where it was found in the morning by the butler. Once in the privacy of his own apartment, he flung himself down on a small pallet-bed, and hid his face under the clothes. After a time, however, the brave old Canterville spirit asserted itself, and he determined to go and speak to the other ghost as soon as it was daylight.