Английский язык с Конан Дойлем. Этюд в багровых тонах (ASCII-IPA)

It was not the father, however, who first discovered that the child had developed into the woman (но не отец первым заметил, что ребенок стал девушкой; to discover — обнаруживать, узнавать, находить; to develop — расти; постепенно приобретать). It seldom is in such cases (так редко бывает в подобных случаях). That mysterious change is too subtle and too gradual to be measured by dates (эта таинственная перемена слишком неуловима и постепенна, чтобы измерить ее по числам: «датами»; subtle — нежный; утонченный, изысканный; неуловимый, тонкий; едва различимый). Least of all does the maiden herself know it (и меньше всего сама девушка замечает: «знает» это) until the tone of a voice or the touch of a hand sets her heart thrilling within her (пока тембр чьего-то голоса или прикосновение руки не заставят трепетать ее сердце; to set — приводить в определенное состояние; to thrill — вызывать трепет; сильно волновать), and she learns, with a mixture of pride and of fear (и она не узнает, с чувством гордости напополам со страхом: «со смесью гордости и страха»), that a new and a larger nature has awoken within her (что в ней проснулось что-то новое и большое: «что новая и бόльшая сущность пробудилась внутри нее»; nature — сущность, основное свойство). There are few who cannot recall that day and remember the one little incident which heralded the dawn of a new life (обычно этот день и то маленькое происшествие, предвещающее рассвет новой жизни, запоминаются навсегда: «немногие не могут припомнить этот день и вспомнить тот маленький случай, который предвестил рассвет новой жизни»). In the case of Lucy Ferrier the occasion was serious enough in itself (в случае Люси Феррьер повод был серьезен сам по себе; occasion — основание, причина; повод, обстоятельство; происшествие, случай), apart from its future influence on her destiny and that of many besides (не говоря уж о том, как он отразился на ее судьбе и на судьбе: «не считая его будущего влияния на ее судьбу и на судьбы» многих других кроме того; apart from — не говоря уже о; не считая).

odour ['@ud@], mustang ['mVst&N], subtle [sVtl]

Lucy Ferrier grew up within the log-house, and assisted her adopted father in all his undertakings. The keen air of the mountains and the balsamic odour of the pine trees took the place of nurse and mother to the young girl. As year succeeded to year she grew taller and stronger, her cheek more ruddy, and her step more elastic. Many a wayfarer upon the high road which ran by Ferrier's farm felt long-forgotten thoughts revive in their mind as they watched her lithe girlish figure tripping through the wheatfields, or met her mounted upon her father's mustang, and managing it with all the ease and grace of a true child of the West. So the bud blossomed into a flower, and the year which saw her father the richest of the farmers left her as fair a specimen of American girlhood as could be found in the whole Pacific slope.

It was not the father, however, who first discovered that the child had developed into the woman. It seldom is in such cases. That mysterious change is too subtle and too gradual to be measured by dates. Least of all does the maiden herself know it until the tone of a voice or the touch of a hand sets her heart thrilling within her, and she learns, with a mixture of pride and of fear, that a new and a larger nature has awoken within her. There are few who cannot recall that day and remember the one little incident which heralded the dawn of a new life. In the case of Lucy Ferrier the occasion was serious enough in itself, apart from its future influence on her destiny and that of many besides.