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

This last, however, was not so easy of accomplishment, for Mr. Hyde had numbered few familiars – even the master of the servant-maid had only seen him twice; his family could nowhere be traced; he had never been photographed; and the few who could describe him differed widely, as common observers will. Only on one point were they agreed; and that was the haunting sense of unexpressed deformity with which the fugitive impressed his beholders.

V

Incident of the Letter

(Эпизод с письмом)

It was late in the afternoon (день уже клонился к вечеру: «было поздно во второй половине дня»), when Mr. Utterson found his way to Dr. Jekyll’s door (когда мистер Аттерсон наконец оказался у двери /дома/ доктора Джекила; to find – находить), where he was at once admitted by Poole

(где он был немедленно впущен Пулом), and carried down by the kitchen offices (и проведен через кухонные подсобные помещения = через черный ход; offices – подсобные помещения, службы при доме), and across a yard which had once been a garden (и затем через двор, который когда-то был садом), to the building which was indifferently known as the laboratory or the dissecting rooms

(к зданию, которое было известно как лаборатория, или как секционная; indifferently – безразлично; одинаково). The doctor had bought the house from the heirs of a celebrated surgeon (доктор /в свое время/ купил этот дом у наследников знаменитого хирурга); and his own tastes being rather chemical than anatomical (и так как его интересы скорее относились к сфере химии, чем анатомии: «и поскольку его собственные вкусы были скорее химическими, чем анатомическими»; taste – вкус; склонность, влечение

), had changed the destination of the block at the bottom of the garden (он изменил предназначение здания, /расположенного/ в глубине сада; bottom – низ, нижняя часть; конец).

It was late in the afternoon, when Mr. Utterson found his way to Dr. Jekyll’s door, where he was at once admitted by Poole, and carried down by the kitchen offices, and across a yard which had once been a garden, to the building which was indifferently known as the laboratory or the dissecting rooms. The doctor had bought the house from the heirs of a celebrated surgeon; and his own tastes being rather chemical than anatomical, had changed the destination of the block at the bottom of the garden.