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

Utterson was amazed; the dark influence of Hyde had been withdrawn, the doctor had returned to his old tasks and amities; a week ago, the prospect had smiled with every promise of a cheerful and an honoured age; and now in a moment, friendship and peace of mind and the whole tenor of his life were wrecked. So great and unprepared a change pointed to madness; but in view of Lanyon’s manner and words, there must lie for it some deeper ground.

A week afterwards Dr. Lanyon took to his bed (неделю спустя доктор Лэньон слег /в постель/)

, and in something less than a fortnight he was dead (и менее чем через две недели умер: «был мертв»; fortnight – две недели). The night after the funeral, at which he had been sadly affected

(вечером после похорон, которыми он был печально растроган; to affect – волновать, трогать, задевать, затрагивать, оказывать влияние), Utterson locked the door of his business room (Аттерсон запер дверь своего кабинета на ключ)

, and sitting there by the light of a melancholy candle (и, сидя при свете унылой свечи), drew out and set before him an envelope (достал и положил перед собой конверт) addressed by the hand and sealed with the seal of his dead friend

(надписанный рукой и скрепленный печатью его умершего друга; to address – адресовать, направлять; написать адрес /на конверте и т. п./).

A week afterwards Dr. Lanyon took to his bed, and in something less than a fortnight he was dead. The night after the funeral, at which he had been sadly affected, Utterson locked the door of his business room, and sitting there by the light of a melancholy candle, drew out and set before him an envelope addressed by the hand and sealed with the seal of his dead friend.