So that it was thought some great man travelled privately (так вот, /люди/ думали, /что/ какая-то известная: «великая» личность путешествует частным образом) for his pleasure from the little station that morning (для своего удовольствия с маленькой станции в то утро); whereas, in truth it was only I, Rudolf Rassendyll (тогда как, на самом деле, это был всего лишь я, Рудольф Рассендил), an English gentleman, a cadet of a good house (английский дворянин, младший представитель хорошего =
Hark! I hear it now (вот: «чу!», я слышу его и сейчас)!
So that it was thought some great man travelled privately for his pleasure from the little station that morning; whereas, in truth it was only I, Rudolf Rassendyll, an English gentleman, a cadet of a good house, but a man of no wealth nor position, nor of much rank. They would have been disappointed to know that. Yet had they known all they would have looked more curiously still. For, be I what I might now, I had been for three months a King, which, if not a thing to be proud of, is at least an experience to have undergone. Doubtless I should have thought more of it, had there not echoed through the air, from the towers of Zenda that we were leaving far away, into my ears and into my heart the cry of a woman’s love – “Rudolf! Rudolf! Rudolf!”
Hark! I hear it now!
Chapter 22
Present, Past – and Future
(Прошлое, настоящее… и будущее)?