Английский с Г. К. Честертоном. Рассказы об отце Брауне

 Money was wanted, too, for his daughter’s dowry; for to him the fame of wealth was as sweet as wealth itself. He snapped the last thread, whispered the word to Brazil, and wealth poured in from the enemies of England. But another man had talked to Espado the Vulture as well as he. Somehow the dark, grim young major from Ulster had guessed the hideous truth; and when they walked slowly together down that road towards the bridge Murray was telling the general that he must resign instantly, or be court-martialled and shot. The general temporised with him till they came to the fringe of tropic trees by the bridge; and there by the singing river and the sunlit palms (for I can see the picture) the general drew his sabre and plunged it through the body of the major.”

The wintry road curved over a ridge in cutting frost (зимняя дорога изгибалась по горному хребту, было очень холодно: «/стоял/ леденящий мороз»; wintry – зимний; холодный; to curve – гнуть/ся/; изгибать/ся/; cutting – заостренный, режущий; пронизывающий, леденящий /о ветре, холодной погоде/), with cruel black shapes of bush and thicket (вдоль дороги стояли суровые черные очертания кустов и зарослей; thicket – чаща; заросли); but Flambeau fancied that he saw beyond it faintly the edge of an aureole that was not starlight and moonlight, but some fire such as is made by men (но Фламбо показалось, что он видит за ними неясный ореол, который не был ни лунным, ни звездным светом, а скорее огнем, зажженным человеком). He watched it as the tale drew to its close (он все смотрел на него, в то время как рассказ близился к завершению; to draw – рисовать; представлять; тащить; подходить; приближаться).