Английский с Р. Л. Стивенсоном. Странная история доктора Джекила и мистера Хайда / Robert Louis Stevenson. The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

Here Poole motioned him to stand on one side and listen; while he himself, setting down the candle and making a great and obvious call on his resolution, mounted the steps, and knocked with a somewhat uncertain hand on the red baize of the cabinet door.

“Mr. Utterson, sir, asking to see you,” he called; and even as he did so, once more violently signed to the lawyer to give ear.

A voice answered from within: “Tell him I cannot see any one,” it said complainingly.

“Thank you, sir,” said Poole, with a note of something like triumph in his voice (сказал Пул, с оттенком чего-то похожего на триумф в его голосе); and taking up his candle, he led Mr. Utterson back (и, подняв свечу, он повел мистера Аттерсона назад) across the yard and into the great kitchen (через сад, в большую кухню)

, where the fire was out (где огонь погас = огонь в большой плите был погашен) and the beetles were leaping on the floor (а по полу сновали тараканы; beetle – жук; /разг./ таракан; to leap – прыгать, скакать).

“Sir,” he said, looking Mr. Utterson in the eyes (сказал он, глядя в глаза мистеру Аттерсону), “was that my master’s voice (это был голос моего хозяина)?”

“It seems much changed

(он, кажется, очень сильно изменился),” replied the lawyer, very pale (ответил нотариус, очень бледный), but giving look for look (но не отводя взгляда: «отвечая взглядом на взгляд»).

“Thank you, sir,” said Poole, with a note of something like triumph in his voice; and taking up his candle, he led Mr. Utterson back across the yard and into the great kitchen, where the fire was out and the beetles were leaping on the floor.

“Sir,” he said, looking Mr. Utterson in the eyes, “was that my master’s voice?”

“It seems much changed,” replied the lawyer, very pale, but giving look for look.

“Changed (изменился)? Well, yes, I think so (ну да, я думаю, что так),” said the butler. “Have I been twenty years in this man’s house (неужели, прослужив в доме /этого человека/ двадцать лет), to be deceived about his voice (я могу обмануться: «быть обманутым» насчет его голоса; to deceive – обманывать, вводить в заблуждение)? No, sir; master’s made away with (нет, сэр, хозяина убили); he was made away with, eight days ago

(его убили восемь дней назад), when we heard him cry out upon the name of God (когда мы слышали, как он взывает к Богу); and who’s in there instead of him (и кто там сейчас вместо него), and why it stays there (и почему он там остается), is a thing that cries to Heaven, Mr. Utterson (это вопиет к небесам, мистер Аттерсон)!”

“Changed? Well, yes, I think so,” said the butler. “Have I been twenty years in this man’s house, to be deceived about his voice? No, sir; master’s made away with; he was made away with, eight days ago, when we heard him cry out upon the name of God; and who’s in there instead of him, and why it stays there, is a thing that cries to Heaven, Mr. Utterson!”