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At last Mr. Dance finished the story.
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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.
1. 'Mr. Dance,' said the squire, 'you are a very noble fellow (вы очень благородный человек). And as for riding down that black, atrocious miscreant (а что касается убийства того дурного, свирепого негодяя; to ride down — загнать, задавить), I regard it as an act of virtue, sir (я считаю это поступком доблести/добрым делом, сэр), like stamping on a cockroach (все равно что задавить таракана = таких мерзавцев и надо давить). This lad Hawkins is a trump, I perceive (этот Хокинс — славный малый, /как/ я понимаю). Hawkins, will you ring that bell (ты не позвонишь ли в тот колокольчик)? Mr. Dance must have some ale (мистер Данс должен выпить немного пива; ale — эль, светлое пиво).'
2. 'And so, Jim (итак, Джим),' said the doctor, 'you have the thing that they were after, have you (у тебя та вещь, за которой они охотились, не так ли)?'
3. 'Here it is, sir (вот она, сэр),' said I, and gave him the oilskin packet (сказал я и дал ему завернутый в клеенку пакет). The doctor looked it all over (доктор осмотрел его со всех сторон), as if his fingers were itching to open it (как будто его пальцам не терпелось открыть его; to itch — зудеть, не терпеться, чесаться); but, instead of doing that, he put it quietly in the pocket of his coat (но, вместо того, чтобы сделать это: «вместо делания», он положил его спокойно в карман сюртука; coat — пиджак, мундир, китель, куртка, пальто и т. п. /верхняя, особ. мужская, одежда/).
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1. 'Mr. Dance,' said the squire, 'you are a very noble fellow. And as for riding down that black, atrocious miscreant, I regard it as an act of virtue, sir, like stamping on a cockroach. This lad Hawkins is a trump, I perceive. Hawkins, will you ring that bell? Mr. Dance must have some ale.'
2. 'And so, Jim,' said the doctor, 'you have the thing that they were after, have you?'
Here it is, sir,' said I, and gave him the oilskin packet. The doctor looked it all over, as if his fingers were itching to open it; but, instead of doing that, he put it quietly in the pocket of his coat.
1. 'Squire,' said he, 'when Dance has had his ale he must, of course, be off on his Majesty's service (когда Данс выпьет пиво, он должен, конечно, отправиться на службу его Величества = к своим служебным обязанностям); but I mean to keep Jim Hawkins here to sleep at my house (но я думаю оставить Джима здесь ночевать в моем доме), and, with your permission (с вашего позволения), I propose we should have up the cold pie, and let him sup (предлагаю попросить подать ему холодный паштет, и пусть он поужинает; pie — пирог, паштет; to have up — приглашать, вызывать; to sup — прихлебнуть; поужинать).'
2. 'As you will, Livesey (как пожелаете, Ливси),' said the squire; 'Hawkins has earned better than cold pie (Хокинс заслужил большего, чем /просто/ холодный пирог).'
3. So a big pigeon pie was brought in and put on a side-table (большая /порция/ голубиного пирога была принесена и поставлена на стол для закусок), and I made a hearty supper (и я сделал обильный ужин = поужинал с большим удовольствием), for I was as hungry as a hawk (потому что был голоден, как волк: «ястреб»), while Mr. Dance was further complimented, and at last dismissed (пока мистера Данса и дальше = еще похвалили, и, наконец, отпустили: «был далее похвален и в конце концов отпущен»; to compliment — хвалить, льстить; to dismiss — отпустить, уволить).
4. 'And now, squire (ну, сквайр),' said the doctor.
pie [paI] earned [q:nd] pigeon [`pIGn] hawk [hLk]
1. 'Squire,' said he, 'when Dance has had his ale he must, of course, be off on his Majesty's service; but I mean to keep Jim Hawkins here to sleep at my house, and, with your permission, I propose we should have up the cold pie, and let him sup.'
2. 'As you will, Livesey,' said the squire; 'Hawkins has earned better than cold pie.'
So a big pigeon pie was brought in and put on a side-table, and I made a hearty supper, for I was as hungry as a hawk, while Mr. Dance was further complimented, and at last dismissed.
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