"Shall I turn on the moving-picture machine, sir?" suggested the negro deferentially. "There's a good one-reel comedy in this machine to-day, or I can put in a serious piece in a moment, if you prefer it."
"No, thanks," answered John, politely but firmly. He was enjoying his bath too much to desire any distraction. But distraction came. In a moment he was listening intently to the sound of flutes from just outside, flutes dripping a melody that was like a waterfall, cool and green as the room itself, accompanying a frothy piccolo, in play more fragile than the lace of suds that covered and charmed him.
After a cold salt-water bracer and a cold fresh finish (после бодрящей морской воды и холодного освежающего душа: «завершения»;
"Mr. Percy is waiting in your sitting-room (ждет в вашей гостиной)," said the negro, when these operations were finished (когда эти процедуры были закончены). "My name is Gygsum, Mr. Unger, sir (меня зовут Гигсум, сэр). I am to see to Mr. Unger every morning (я буду заботится о мистере Ангере по утрам: «каждое утро»)."
John walked out into the brisk sunshine of his living-room (вышел в залитую радостным солнечным светом гостиную: «в бодрящий/радостный солнечный свет своей гостиной»;
material [mq'tIqrIql], alcohol ['xlkqhOl], voluptuous [vq'lAptjVqs, — CVqs]
After a cold salt-water bracer and a cold fresh finish, he stepped out and into a fleecy robe, and upon a couch covered with the same material he was rubbed with oil, alcohol, and spice. Later he sat in a voluptuous chair while he was shaved and his hair was trimmed.
"Mr. Percy is waiting in your sitting-room," said the negro, when these operations were finished. "My name is Gygsum, Mr. Unger, sir. I am to see to Mr. Unger every morning."
John walked out into the brisk sunshine of his living-room, where he found breakfast waiting for him and Percy, gorgeous in white kid knickerbockers, smoking in an easy chair.
IV
This is a story of the Washington family as Percy sketched it for John during breakfast (вот история семьи Вашингтонов /в том виде/, как Перси обрисовал ее Джону за завтраком;
The father of the present Mr. Washington had been a Virginian (отец нынешнего мистера Вашингтона был виргинцем), a direct descendant of George Washington, and Lord Baltimore (прямым потомком Джорджа Вашингтона и лорда Балтимора). At the close of the Civil War (к концу Гражданской войны) he was a twenty-five-year-old Colonel with a played-out plantation and about a thousand dollars in gold (он был двадцатипятилетним полковником, имеющим никуда не годную плантацию и около тысячи долларов золотом;
Fitz-Norman Culpepper Washington, for that was the young Colonel's name (таково было имя молодого полковника), decided to present the Virginia estate to his younger brother and go West (решил подарить =
breakfast ['brekfqst], colonel ['kWn(q)l], bought [bLt]