Английский язык с Оскаром Уайльдом. Звездный мальчик и другие легенды

Sadder even than usual was the King, for as he looked at the Infanta bowing with childish gravity to the assembling courtiers, or laughing behind her fan at the grim Duchess of Albuquerque who always accompanied her, he thought of the young Queen, her mother, who but a short time before — so it seemed to him — had come from the gay country of France, and had withered away in the sombre splendour of the Spanish court, dying just six months after the birth of her child, and before she had seen the almonds blossom twice in the orchard, or plucked the second year's fruit from the old gnarled fig-tree that stood in the centre of the now grass-grown courtyard.

So great had been his love for her (настолько велика была его любовь к ней) that he had not suffered even the grave (что он не позволил даже могиле; to suffer — страдать; позволять, дозволять) to hide her from him (скрыть ее от него). She had been embalmed (она была забальзамирована) by a Moorish physician (мавританским врачом/целителем), who in return for this service (которому, в обмен на эту его услугу; return — возвращение; отдача, возврат) had been granted his life (была дарована его /собственная/ жизнь; to grant — даровать, жаловать), which for heresy and suspicion of magical practices (которой /жизни/ за ересь и подозрения в магии: «магическую деятельность») had been already forfeited (он уже должен был лишиться/поплатиться ею; to forfeit — лишаться чего-либо, поплатиться за проступок), men said (как /люди/ говорили), to the Holy Office (Святой Инквизиции; Holy Office — Святая Палата /официальное название инквизиции/), and her body was still lying (и ее тело все еще лежало) on its tapestried bier (на обитом декоративными тканями катафалке; bier — похоронные дроги, гроб) in the black marble chapel of the Palace (в часовне из черного мрамора /что находилась во/ Дворце), just as the monks had borne her in (такое же, каким монахи внесли его; to bear (bore; borne, born) — переносить) on that windy March day (в тот ветреный мартовский день; wind — ветер) nearly twelve years before (почти что двенадцать лет назад).

embalmed [Im'bQ:md] physician [fI'zIS(q)n] heresy ['herIsI]

forfeit ['fO:fIt] tapestried ['txpIstrId] monk [mANk]

So great had been his love for her that he had not suffered even the grave to hide her from him. She had been embalmed by a Moorish physician, who in return for this service had been granted his life, which for heresy and suspicion of magical practices had been already forfeited, men said, to the Holy Office, and her body was still lying on its tapestried bier in the black marble chapel of the Palace, just as the monks had borne her in on that windy March day nearly twelve years before.