Your cheque for my family came yesterday. Thank you so much! I cut gymnasium and took it down to them right after luncheon, and you should have seen the girl's face! She was so surprised and happy and relieved that she looked almost young; and she's only twenty-four. Isn't it pitiful?
Anyway, she feels now as though all the good things were coming together. She has steady work ahead for two months — someone's getting married, and there's a trousseau to make.
'Thank the good Lord!' cried the mother, when she grasped the fact that that small piece of paper was one hundred dollars.
'It wasn't the good Lord at all,' said I, 'it was Daddy-Long-Legs.' (Mr. Smith, I called you.)
'But it was the good Lord who put it in his mind (но именно добрый Бог вложил /эту мысль/ ему в голову),' said she.
'Not at all (вовсе нет)! I put it in his mind myself (я сама подсказала ему эту мысль),' said I.
But anyway, Daddy, I trust the good Lord will reward you suitably (но, в любом случае, Папочка, я верю, что добрый Бог вознаградит вас соответственно = по заслугам). You deserve ten thousand years out of purgatory (вы заслуживаете десять тысяч лет за пределами чистилища = для вас пребывание в чистилище должно сократиться на десять тысяч лет).
Yours most gratefully (ваша, с особой благодарностью),
Judy Abbott
reward [rI'wO:d], suitably ['s(j)u:tqblI], purgatory ['pq:gqt(q)rI]
'But it was the good Lord who put it in his mind,' said she.
'Not at all! I put it in his mind myself,' said I.
But anyway, Daddy, I trust the good Lord will reward you suitably. You deserve ten thousand years out of purgatory.
Yours most gratefully,
Judy Abbott
Feb. 15th.
This morning I did eat my breakfast upon a cold turkey pie and a goose (сегодня утром я съел завтрак =
Don't be nervous, Daddy (не беспокойтесь, Папочка;
'I went to Charing Cross to see Major Harrison hanged (я пошел на Чаринг-кросс, посмотреть, как вешают майора Харрисона;
majesty ['mxdZIstI], quote [kwqVt], quartered ['kwO:tqd], mourning ['mO:nIN]
This morning I did eat my breakfast upon a cold turkey pie and a goose, and I did send for a cup of tee (a china drink) of which I had never drank before.