Английский язык с У. С. Моэмом. На окраине империи. Рассказы / W. S. Maugham: Stories

It did not take Neilson long to discover that he was in love with her. It was only by an effort of will now that he prevented himself from going every day to the creek, and when he was not with Sally his thoughts were. At first, looking upon himself as a dying man, he asked only to look at her, and occasionally hear her speak, and his love gave him a wonderful happiness. He exulted in its purity. He wanted nothing from her but the opportunity to weave around her graceful person a web of beautiful fancies. But the open air, the equable temperature, the rest, the simple fare, began to have an unexpected effect on his health. His temperature did not soar at night to such alarming heights, he coughed less and began to put on weight; six months passed without his having a haemorrhage; and on a sudden he saw the possibility that he might live. He had studied his disease carefully, and the hope dawned upon him that with great care he might arrest its course. It exhilarated him to look forward once more to the future. He made plans. It was evident that any active life was out of the question, but he could live on the islands, and the small income he had, insufficient elsewhere, would be ample to keep him. He could grow coconuts; that would give him an occupation; and he would send for his books and a piano; but his quick mind saw that in all this he was merely trying to conceal from himself the desire which obsessed him.

He wanted Sally (ему нужна была Салли; to want— хотеть; нуждаться). He loved not only her beauty (он любил не только ее красоту), but that dim soul which he divined behind her suffering eyes (но /и/ ту неясную душу, которую он увидел: «угадал» за ее страдальческими глазами). He would intoxicate her with his passion (он бы опьянил ее своей страстью). In the end he would make her forget (в конце концов он бы заставил ее забыть). And in an ecstasy of surrender (и когда она сдастся; in — в; ecstasy — экстаз, исступленный восторг; to surrender — сдаваться; уступать) he fancied himself giving her too the happiness (он представлял себя дающим ей тоже то счастье) which he had thought never to know again (которое, /как/ он думал, /он/ никогда /не/ познает снова), but had now so miraculously achieved (но /которое он/ теперь таким чудесным образом обрел; to achieve — достичь; добиться).