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That's not my name,' he interrupted.
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- This, when it was brought to him, he drank slowly, like a connoisseur, lingering on the taste, and still looking about him at the cliffs and up at our signboard.
- He never wrote or received a letter, and he never spoke with any but the neighbours, and with these, for the most part, only when drunk on rum. The great sea-chest none of us had ever seen open.
- Then followed a battle of looks between them; but this captain soon knuckled under, put up his weapon, and resumed his seat, grumbling like a beaten dog.
- I told him he was out walking.
- At last in strode the captain, slammed the door behind him, without looking to the right or left, and marched straight across the room to where his breakfast awaited him.
- He bade me go, and leave the door wide open. 'None of your keyholes for me, sonny,' he said; and I left them together and retired into the bar.
- Jim,' says he, 'rum;' and as he spoke, he reeled a little and caught himself with one hand against the wall.
- That's not my name,' he interrupted.
- And he ran on again for a while with curses.
- When I brought it to him, he seized it greedily, and drank it out.
- Before I could do much to help him he had fallen back again to his former place, where he lay for a while silent.
- But what is the black spot, Captain?' I asked.
- Once, for instance, to our extreme wonder, he piped up to a different air, a kind of country love-song, that he must have learned in his youth before he had begun to follow the sea.
- And he gave it, as he spoke, a wrench that made me cry out.
- We both obeyed him to the letter, and I saw him pass something from the hollow of the hand that held his stick into the palm of the captain's, which closed upon it instantly.
- I LOST no time, of course, in telling my mother all that I knew, and perhaps should have told her long before, and we saw ourselves at once in a difficult and dangerous position.
- Give me the key,' said my mother; and though the lock was very stiff, she had turned it and thrown back the lid in a twinkling.
- I'll take what I have,' she said, jumping to her feet.
- Here, you below there, is it on Bill?' cried the blind man again.
- These, in their turn, cursed back at the blind miscreant, threatened him in horrid terms, and tried in vain to catch the stick and wrest it from his grasp.
- Just then the noise of horses topped the rise, and four or five riders came in sight in the moonlight, and swept at full gallop down the slope.
- I thought, perhaps, Dr Livesey — — ' I began.
- Mr. Dance told me to jump down and knock, and Dogger gave me a stirrup to descend by. The door was opened almost at once by the maid.
- At last Mr. Dance finished the story.
- And now, squire,' said the doctor.
- That was all; but brief as it was, and, to me, incomprehensible, it filled the squire and Dr. Livesey with delight.
- Dear Livesey, — as I do not know whether you are at the Hall or still in London, I send this in double to both places.
- At that I gave up all attempt at commentary, and read straight on: —
- Long John even got rid of two out of the six or seven had already engaged. He showed me in a moment that they were just the sort of fresh-water swabs we had to fear in an adventure of importance.
- P.P.S. — Hawkins may stay one night with his mother.
- And then, as Morgan rolled back to his seat, Silver added to me in a confidential whisper, that was very flattering, as I thought: —
- This last was a sharp-looking man, who seemed angry with everything on board, and was soon to tell us why, for we had hardly got down into the cabin when a sailor followed us.
- Livesey, that must have been you or Hawkins,' cried the squire.
- And with that he took his leave.
- The old one,' cried another.
- Yet some of the men who had sailed with him before expressed their pity to see him so reduced.
- Stand by to go about,' the parrot would scream.
- The squire, at this, would turn away and march up and down the deck, chin in air.
- Well, it aint much use, after all,' said the young seaman.
- Dick's square,' said Silver.
- Why, we're all seamen aboard here, I should think,' said the lad Dick.
- Terrified as I was, I could not help thinking to myself that this must have been how Mr. Arrow got the strong waters that destroyed him.
- The anchorage is on the south, behind an islet, I fancy?' asked the captain.
- And clapping me in the friendliest way upon the shoulder he hobbled off forward and went below.
- The cheer followed — that was a matter of course; but it rang out so full and hearty, that I confess I could hardly believe these same men were plotting for our blood.
- As upon myself,' declared the squire.
- I thought this was a very bad sign; for, up to that day, the men had gone briskly and willingly about their business; but the very sight of the island had relaxed the cords of discipline.
- We held a council in the cabin.
- At last, however, the party was made up. Six fellows were to stay on board, and the remaining thirteen, including Silver, began to embark.
- I WAS so pleased at having given the slip to Long John, that I began to enjoy myself and look around me with some interest on the strange land that I was in.
3. 'Much I care,' returned the doctor. 'It's the name of a buccaneer of my acquaintance; and I call you by it for the sake of shortness, and what I have to say to you is this: one glass of rum won't kill you, but if you take one you'll take another and another, and I stake my wig if you don't break off short, you'll die — do you understand that? — die, and go to your own place, like the man in the Bible. Come, now, make an effort. I'll help you to your bed for once.'
1. Between us (между нами = вместе), with much trouble (с большим трудом), we managed to hoist him upstairs (мы сумели поднять его наверх), and laid him on his bed (уложили его на кровать), where his head fell back on the pillow (где его голова упала на подушку; to fall), as if he were almost fainting (как если бы он был почти без чувств; to faint — падать в обморок).
2. 'Now, mind you (итак, помните),' said the doctor, 'I clear my conscience (я очищаю мою совесть = говорю по чистой совести) — the name of rum for you is death (имя рома для вас — смерть = «ром» и «смерть» для вас — одно и то же).'
3. And with that he went off to see my father (с такими словами он ушел = отправился смотреть моего отца), taking me with him by the arm (беря меня с собой за руку).
4. 'This is nothing (это ничего = пустяки),' he said, as soon as he had closed the door (сказал он, как только закрыл дверь). 'I have drawn blood enough to keep him quiet a while (я выпустил крови достаточно, чтобы держать его спокойным некоторое время); he should lie for a week where he is (он должен лежать неделю в кровати: «где он есть») — that is the best thing for him and you (это лучшая вещь = полезно /и/ для него, и для вас); but another stroke would settle him (но другой удар убьет его; to settle — поселить(ся); установить, уладить; разделываться, разбираться; порешить, убить, прикончить).'
trouble [trAbl] fainting [`feIntIN] conscience [`kOnSqns] quiet [`kwaIqt]
Between us, with much trouble, we managed to hoist him upstairs, and laid him on his bed, where his head fell back on the pillow, as if he were almost fainting.
2. 'Now, mind you,' said the doctor, 'I clear my conscience — the name of rum for you is death.'
And with that he went off to see my father, taking me with him by the arm.
4. 'This is nothing,' he said, as soon as he had closed the door. 'I have drawn blood enough to keep him quiet a while; he should lie for a week where he is — that is the best thing for him and you; but another stroke would settle him.'
Chapter III (глава 3)
The Black Spot (черная метка; spot — пятно, точка) 1. ABOUT noon I stopped at the captain's door (около полудня я остановился в двери капитана = вошел к капитану) with some cooling drinks and medicines (с прохладительным питьем и лекарствами). He was lying very much as we had left him (он лежал почти в том же положении, как мы его оставили; much as — подобно тому, как, почти как), only a little higher (только немного повыше; high — высокий), and he seemed both weak and excited (и казался слабым и возбужденным одновременно; both… and… — как, так и…).
2. 'Jim,' he said, 'you're the only one here that's worth anything (ты единственный /человек/ здесь, который чего-то стоит; to be worth — стоить, заслуживать); and you know I've been always good to you (ты знаешь — я всегда был добр к тебе; to be good to — хорошо относиться к). Never a month but I've given you a silver fourpenny for yourself (не было /такого/ месяца, чтобы я не дал тебе серебряные четыре пенса; I've = I have). And now you see, mate, I'm pretty low (а теперь, видишь, друг, мне очень скверно; pretty — довольно, весьма, изрядно; low — низкий, опустошенный, подавленный, плохой), and deserted by all (и /я/ покинут всеми; to desert — покидать, бросать); and Jim, you'll bring me one noggin of rum, now, won't you, matey (Джим, ты принесешь мне кружечку рому, сейчас, не так ли, дружок; noggin — маленькая кружка /0,12 — 0,14 л/; won't = will not)?'
3. 'The doctor — — ' I began (начал я).
cooling [`kHlIN] medicines [`meds(q)nz] excited [Ik`saItId] worth [wq:T]
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