On one of the staircases, I met the physician of the family. His countenance, I thought, wore a mingled expression of low cunning and perplexity. He accosted me with trepidation and passed on. The valet now threw open a door and ushered me into the presence of his master.
The room in which I found myself was very large and lofty
(комната, в которой я оказался: «нашел себя», была очень большой и высокой; to find – найти). The windows were long, narrow, and pointed (окна были длинными, узкими и заостренными = стрельчатыми), and at so vast a distance from the black oaken floor (и на таком большом расстоянии от черного дубового пола; vast – обширный) as to be altogether inaccessible from within (чтобы быть совершенно недосягаемыми изнутри). Feeble gleams of encrimsoned light made their way through the trellised panes (слабые отблески окрашенного в малиновый света пробивались: «делали свой путь» сквозь зарешеченные стекла; crimson – малиновый, пурпурный; to encrimson – делать малиновым, окрашивать в малиновый), and served to render sufficiently distinct the more prominent objects around (и служили тому, чтобы сделать достаточно различимыми более заметные предметы вокруг); the eye, however, struggled in vain to reach the remoter angles of the chamber (глаз, однако, напрасно силился достичь более отдаленные углы комнаты; to struggle – бороться; in vain – напрасно, тщетно; remote – отдаленный), or the recesses of the vaulted and fretted ceiling (или укромные уголки сводчатого и украшенного резьбой потолка; to fret – украшать резьбой или лепкой).
The room in which I found myself was very large and lofty. The windows were long, narrow, and pointed, and at so vast a distance from the black oaken floor as to be altogether inaccessible from within. Feeble gleams of encrimsoned light made their way through the trellised panes, and served to render sufficiently distinct the more prominent objects around; the eye, however, struggled in vain to reach the remoter angles of the chamber, or the recesses of the vaulted and fretted ceiling.