HARRIS (with kindly encouragement) (с доброжелательным ободрением): "It's all right (все в порядке). You're doing it very well, indeed — go on (вы делаете это очень хорошо, в самом деле, —продолжайте)."

NERVOUS PIANIST (взволнованный пианист): "I'm afraid there's a mistake somewhere (боюсь, где-то /произошла/ ошибка). What are you singing (что вы поете)?"

prelude ['prelju:d] accompaniment ['kmpnmnt] answer [':ns]

(Murmurs of delight and anxiety to join in the chorus. Brilliant performance of prelude to the Judge's song in "Trial by Jury" by nervous pianist. Moment arrives for Harris to join in. Harris takes no notice of it. Nervous pianist commences prelude over again, and Harris, commencing singing at the same time, dashes off the first two lines of the First Lord's song out of "Pinafore." Nervous pianist tries to push on with prelude, gives it up, and tries to follow Harris with accompaniment to Judge's song out of "Trial by Jury," finds that doesn't answer, and tries to recollect what he is doing, and where he is, feels his mind giving way, and stops short.)

HARRIS (with kindly encouragement): "It's all right. You're doing it very well, indeed — go on."

NERVOUS PIANIST: "I'm afraid there's a mistake somewhere. What are you singing?"

HARRIS (promptly) (быстро/не задумываясь): "Why the Judge's song out of Trial by Jury (как, песню Судьи из Суда Присяжных). Don't you know it (разве вы не знаете ее)?"

SOME FRIEND OF HARRIS'S (один приятель Гарриса) (from the back of the room) (из глубины комнаты; back — спина; задняя часть): "No, you're not, you chuckle-head, you're singing the Admiral's song from Pinafore (нет, болван, ты поешь песню Адмирала из Передника)."

(Long argument between Harris and Harris's friend as to what Harris is really singing (продолжительный спор между Гаррисом и его приятелем по поводу того, что Гаррис поет в действительности). Friend finally suggests that it doesn't matter what Harris is singing (наконец приятель высказывает мысль, что не важно, что поет Гаррис) so long as Harris gets on and sings it (лишь бы Гаррис продолжал и пел; so long as — поскольку; при условии, что), and Harris, with an evident sense of injustice rankling inside him (а Гаррис, с явным чувством несправедливости, терзающим его; inside — внутри), requests pianist to begin again (просит пианиста начать снова). Pianist, thereupon, starts prelude to the Admiral's song (пианист вслед за этим начинает прелюдию к песне Адмирала), and Harris, seizing what he considers to be a favourable opening in the music, begins (а Гаррис, воспользовавшись, по его мнению: «что он считает», подходящим моментом в музыке, начинает; to seize — схватить/ся/; воспользоваться; favourable — благоприятный; подходящий; opening — открытие, вступительная часть, начало; удобный случай, благоприятная возможность).)

evident ['evdnt] request [r'kwest] seizing ['si:z]

HARRIS (promptly): "Why the Judge's song out of Trial by Jury. Don't you know it?"

SOME FRIEND OF HARRIS'S (from the back of the room): "No, you're not, you chuckle-head, you're singing the Admiral's song from Pinafore."

(Long argument between Harris and Harris's friend as to what Harris is really singing. Friend finally suggests that it doesn't matter what Harris is singing so long as Harris gets on and sings it, and Harris, with an evident sense of injustice rankling inside him, requests pianist to begin again. Pianist, thereupon, starts prelude to the Admiral's song, and Harris, seizing what he considers to be a favourable opening in the music, begins.)

HARRIS: