Английский язык с О. Уайльдом. Кентервильское привидение / О. Wilde: The Canterville Ghost

He now gave up all hope of ever frightening this rude American family, and contented himself, as a rule, with creeping about the passages in list slippers, with a thick red muffler round his throat for fear of draughts, and a small arquebuse, in case he should be attacked by the twins. The final blow he received occurred on the 19th of September.

He had gone downstairs to the great entrance-hall (он спустился вниз по лестнице в большой холл; entrance — вход), feeling sure that there, at any rate (чувствуя себя уверенным, что там, по крайней мере), he would be quite unmolested (его совершенно оставят в покое), and was amusing himself by making satirical remarks (и развлекался: «забавлял себя» тем, что делал иронические замечания) on the large Saroni photographs of the United States Minister and his wife (относительно больших фотографий посла Соединенных Штатов Америки и его жены, выполненных Сарони {Saroni — Наполеон Сарони (1821 — 1896), американский фотограф, литограф и художник}) which had now taken the place of the Canterville family pictures (которые теперь заняли место фотографий семьи Кентервиль). He was simply but neatly clad in a long shroud (он оделся просто, но опрятно, в длинный саван; to be clad — быть одетым /во что-либо/), spotted with churchyard mould (местами подпорченный кладбищенской плесенью), had tied up his jaw with a strip of yellow linen (подвязал свою челюсть желтой тряпицей), and carried a small lantern and a sexton's spade (и нес маленький фонарик и заступ могильщика).

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He had gone downstairs to the great entrance-hall, feeling sure that there, at any rate, he would be quite unmolested, and was amusing himself by making satirical remarks on the large Saroni photographs of the United States Minister and his wife which had now taken the place of the Canterville family pictures. He was simply but neatly clad in a long shroud, spotted with churchyard mould, had tied up his jaw with a strip of yellow linen, and carried a small lantern and a sexton's spade.