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

Time ran on; thousands of pounds were offered in reward, for the death of Sir Danvers was resented as a public injury; but Mr. Hyde had disappeared out of the ken of the police as though he had never existed. Much of his past was unearthed, indeed, and all disreputable: tales came out of the man’s cruelty, at once so callous and violent, of his vile life, of his strange associates, of the hatred that seemed to have surrounded his career; but of his present whereabouts not a whisper.

From the time he had left the house in Soho on the morning of the murder (с того момента, когда он покинул дом в Сохо в утро убийства; time – время; определенный момент

), he was simply blotted out (он просто-напросто испарился; to blot /out/ – стирать, вычеркивать; blot – пятно; клякса); and gradually, as time drew on, Mr. Utterson began to recover from the hotness of his alarm

(и постепенно, со временем, мистер Аттерсон начал оправляться от своей жгучей тревоги; to draw on – идти, протекать /о времени/; hot – горячий, жаркий; напряженный), and to grow more quiet with himself (и становиться все более спокойным). The death of Sir Danvers was, to his way of thinking

(по его мнению, смерть сэра Дэнверса), more than paid for by the disappearance of Mr. Hyde (была более чем искуплена исчезновением мистера Хайда; to pay – платить; возмещать). Now that the evil influence had been withdrawn

(теперь, когда пагубное влияние исчезло; to withdraw – отдергивать /напр., руку/; отнимать; ретироваться, удаляться, уходить), a new life began for Dr. Jekyll (для доктора Джекила началась новая жизнь).

From the time he had left the house in Soho on the morning of the murder, he was simply blotted out; and gradually, as time drew on, Mr. Utterson began to recover from the hotness of his alarm, and to grow more quiet with himself. The death of Sir Danvers was, to his way of thinking, more than paid for by the disappearance of Mr. Hyde. Now that the evil influence had been withdrawn, a new life began for Dr. Jekyll.