Английский с Г. К. Честертоном. Рассказы об отце Брауне / Gilbert Keith Chesterton. The Innocence of Father Brown

The two men were made for sympathy; they were men who ‘read their Bibles’; they were both the old Evangelical type of officer (эти два человека были созданы для /взаимного/ понимания, они были людьми, которые, /как говорится,/ «читали свои Библии», оба были офицерами старого евангелического образца; sympathy – сочувствие; сострадание; симпатия; взаимное понимание; общность /в чем-л./). However this may be, it is certain that when the general mounted again he was still talking earnestly to Murray (во всяком случае, достоверно, что когда генерал снова садился в седло, он продолжал серьезный разговор с Мерреем; to mount – подниматься; восходить; садиться /на лошадь/; earnest – серьезный; основательный); and that as he walked his horse slowly down the road towards the river, the tall Ulsterman still walked by his bridle rein in earnest debate (а когда пустил лошадь медленным шагом по дороге по направлению к реке, высокий олстерец все еще шел у повода /коня/, /поглощенный/ серьезной дискуссией; bridle rein – повод уздечки). The soldiers watched the two until they vanished behind a clump of trees where the road turned towards the river (солдаты наблюдали за ними, пока они не скрылись в зарослях деревьев, где дорога поворачивала к реке; clump – заросли). The colonel had gone back to his tent, and the men to their pickets (полковник возвратился к себе в палатку, солдаты /отправились/ на посты; picket – пикет; застава; дозор; караул; пост); the man with the diary lingered for another four minutes, and saw a marvellous sight (автор дневника задержался еще на четыре минуты и увидел удивительное зрелище; marvel – чудо).

 The two men were made for sympathy; they were men who ‘read their Bibles’; they were both the old Evangelical type of officer. However this may be, it is certain that when the general mounted again he was still talking earnestly to Murray; and that as he walked his horse slowly down the road towards the river, the tall Ulsterman still walked by his bridle rein in earnest debate. The soldiers watched the two until they vanished behind a clump of trees where the road turned towards the river. The colonel had gone back to his tent, and the men to their pickets; the man with the diary lingered for another four minutes, and saw a marvellous sight.