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

 Flambeau gave a great jump. “Ah,” he cried, “you don’t mean – ”

“Yes,” said Father Brown in a deep, moving voice. “It was an English hand that put the rope round St. Clare’s neck; I believe the hand that put the ring on his daughter’s finger. They were English hands that dragged him up to the tree of shame; the hands of men that had adored him and followed him to victory. And they were English souls (God pardon and endure us all!) who stared at him swinging in that foreign sun on the green gallows of palm, and prayed in their hatred that he might drop off it into hell.”

As the two topped the ridge there burst on them the strong scarlet light of a red-curtained English inn (когда они: «двое» достигли гребня холма, то увидели: «внезапно появился» сильный яркий свет из окон английской гостиницы с красными занавесками; to burst on – внезапно появиться; curtain – занавеска; inn – гостиница; постоялый двор). It stood sideways in the road, as if standing aside in the amplitude of hospitality (гостиница стояла рядом с дорогой и казалась очень гостеприимной; to stand; sideways – в сторону; сбоку, со стороны; amplitude – обширность; обилие, изобилие; hospitality – гостеприимство, хлебосольство). Its three doors stood open with invitation (три двери были радушно распахнуты: «три двери /гостиницы/ стояли открытыми с приглашением»); and even where they stood they could hear the hum and laughter of humanity happy for a night (и даже с того места, где они /отец Браун и Фламбо/ находились, они слышали говор и смех людей, которые были счастливы в такую ночь; humanity – человечество).

 As the two topped the ridge there burst on them the strong scarlet light of a red-curtained English inn. It stood sideways in the road, as if standing aside in the amplitude of hospitality. Its three doors stood open with invitation; and even where they stood they could hear the hum and laughter of humanity happy for a night.