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

It seems she was romantically given; for she sat down upon her box, which stood immediately under the window, and fell into a dream of musing. Never (she used to say, with streaming tears, when she narrated that experience), never had she felt more at peace with all men or thought more kindly of the world. And as she so sat she became aware of an aged and beautiful gentleman with white hair, drawing near along the lane; and advancing to meet him, another and very small gentleman, to whom at first she paid less attention.

When they had come within speech (когда они сблизились /на такое расстояние, когда можно было начать разговор/) (which was just under the maid’s eyes) (что случилось как раз перед самыми глазами служанки)

the older man bowed and accosted the other with a very pretty manner of politeness (более взрослый = пожилой мужчина поклонился и обратился к другому прохожему в очень приятной вежливой манере; polite – вежливый; politeness – вежливость). It did not seem as if the subject of his address were of great importance

(казалось, что он обратился с каким-то пустяком; address – адрес; обращение /к кому-либо/; importance – значение, важность); indeed, from his pointing, it sometimes appeared (и в самом деле, судя по его жесту, казалось; to point – указывать /пальцем, рукой/)

as if he were only inquiring his way (что он всего лишь справлялся о дороге); but the moon shone on his face as he spoke (но, пока он говорил, лицо его освещала луна), and the girl was pleased to watch it (и девушке было приятно смотреть на него /на лицо/), it seemed to breathe such an innocent and old-world kindness of disposition

(казалось, что оно дышало такой невинной/чистой и старомодной благожелательностью), yet with something high too, as of a well-founded self-content (/подкрепленной/ также чем-то возвышенным, похожим на заслуженный душевный покой: «хорошо обоснованную удовлетворенность»; high – высокий; возвышенный, благородный).

When they had come within speech (which was just under the maid’s eyes) the older man bowed and accosted the other with a very pretty manner of politeness. It did not seem as if the subject of his address were of great importance; indeed, from his pointing, it sometimes appeared as if he were only inquiring his way; but the moon shone on his face as he spoke, and the girl was pleased to watch it, it seemed to breathe such an innocent and old-world kindness of disposition, yet with something high too, as of a well-founded self-content.