"He gazed at me with bleared, drunken eyes for a moment (мгновение он смотрел на меня мутными, пьяными глазами; to blear — затуманивать, делать неясным), and then I saw a horror spring up in them (а затем я увидел, как в них вспыхнул ужас; to spring up — возникать), and convulse his whole features (и судорогой пробежал по чертам его лица; to convulse — вызывать судороги, конвульсии; трясти, сотрясать), which showed me that he knew me (из чего я понял: «что показало мне», что он меня узнал). He staggered back with a livid face (он отшатнулся, побледнев; livid — мертвенно-бледный), and I saw the perspiration break out upon his brow (и я увидел, что у него на лбу выступил пот), while his teeth chattered in his head (зубы его стучали). At the sight, I leaned my back against the door and laughed loud and long (увидев это, я прислонился спиной к двери и громко захохотал: «и захохотал громко и долго»). I had always known that vengeance would be sweet (я всегда знал, что месть будет сладка), but I had never hoped for the contentment of soul which now possessed me (но я и не надеялся на то блаженство: «душевное довольство», что теперь на меня спустилось; to possess — овладевать, захватывать).

hotel [hu'tel], [u'tel], convulse [kn'vls], brow [brau]

"I suppose he thought we had come to the hotel that he had mentioned, for he got out without another word, and followed me down the garden. I had to walk beside him to keep him steady, for he was still a little top-heavy. When we came to the door, I opened it, and led him into the front room. I give you my word that all the way, the father and the daughter were walking in front of us.

" ‘It's infernally dark,’ said he, stamping about.

" ‘We'll soon have a light,’ I said, striking a match and putting it to a wax candle which I had brought with me. ‘Now, Enoch Drebber,’ I continued, turning to him, and holding the light to my own face, ‘who am I?’

"He gazed at me with bleared, drunken eyes for a moment, and then I saw a horror spring up in them, and convulse his whole features, which showed me that he knew me. He staggered back with a livid face, and I saw the perspiration break out upon his brow, while his teeth chattered in his head. At the sight, I leaned my back against the door and laughed loud and long. I had always known that vengeance would be sweet, but I had never hoped for the contentment of soul which now possessed me.