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 could not trust his eyes. Yes, it was disappearance; here again, as in the mad will, which he had long ago restored to its author, here again were the idea of a disappearance and the name of Henry Jekyll bracketed. But in the will, that idea had sprung from the sinister suggestion of the man Hyde; it was set there with a purpose all too plain and horrible. Written by the hand of Lanyon, what should it mean?

A great curiosity came to the trustee

(душеприказчика охватило колоссальное любопытство), to disregard the prohibition (/ему захотелось/ пренебречь запретом), and dive at once to the bottom of these mysteries

(и немедленно перейти к самой сути этих тайн; to dive – прыгать в воду; погружаться; bottom – низ, нижняя часть; суть, основа); but professional honour and faith to his dead friend were stringent obligations

(но профессиональная честь и верность своему умершему другу оказались сильнее; stringent – строгий, обязательный; obligation – обязанность, долг); and the packet slept in the inmost corner of his private safe

(и сверток упокоился в самом удаленном уголке его личного сейфа; to sleep – спать; inmost = innermost – находящийся в самой глубине; самый дальний, внутренний; глубочайший, сокровенный /о чувствах и т. п./).

A great curiosity came to the trustee, to disregard the prohibition, and dive at once to the bottom of these mysteries; but professional honour and faith to his dead friend were stringent obligations; and the packet slept in the inmost corner of his private safe.