Английский с Г. К. Честертоном. Случаи отца Брауна / Gilbert Keith Chesterton. The Sins of Prince Saradine. The Eye of Apollo

 “Why, then,” cried Flambeau, “Pauline was alone when she fell, and it was suicide!”

“She was alone when she fell,” said Father Brown, “but it was not suicide.”

“Then how did she die?” asked Flambeau impatiently.

“She was murdered.”

“But she was alone,” objected the detective.

“She was murdered when she was all alone,” answered the priest.

All the rest stared at him, but he remained sitting in the same old dejected attitude, with a wrinkle in his round forehead and an appearance of impersonal shame and sorrow; his voice was colourless and sad.

“What I want to know,” cried Kalon, with an oath (что я хочу знать, – воскликнул Калон, выругавшись; oath – клятва, присяга; проклятие, ругательство), “is when the police are coming for this bloody and wicked sister (так это когда полиция придет за этой проклятой и злобной сестрицей; bloody – кровавый, окровавленный; проклятый /брит., груб./). She’s killed her flesh and blood (она убила свою родную сестру: «свою плоть и кровь»); she’s robbed me of half a million (она ограбила меня на полмиллиона) that was just as sacredly mine as (которые были уже законно моими, как…; sacredly – свято; нерушимо; sacred – священный) – ”

“Come, come, prophet,” interrupted Flambeau, with a kind of sneer (ну, будет вам, пророк, хватит, – оборвал его Фламбо с каким-то подобием презрительной усмешки; come! – стой! погоди! /разг./; a kind of – нечто вроде); “remember that all this world is a cloudland (вспомните, что весь этот мир эфемерен).”

 “What I want to know,” cried Kalon, with an oath, “is when the police are coming for this bloody and wicked sister. She’s killed her flesh and blood; she’s robbed me of half a million that was just as sacredly mine as – ”

“Come, come, prophet,” interrupted Flambeau, with a kind of sneer; “remember that all this world is a cloudland.”

The hierophant of the sun-god made an effort to climb back on his pedestal (верховный жрец солнечного бога сделал попытку взобраться назад на свой пьедестал; effort – усилие, напряжение; попытка). “It is not the mere money,” he cried (это не просто деньги, – вскричал он), “though that would equip the cause throughout the world (хотя они помогли бы распространить мою религию по всему миру; to equip – снаряжать, оснащать; снабжать; cause – причина, основание; дело, цель). It is also my beloved one’s wishes (это также было желанием моей возлюбленной). To Pauline all this was holy (для Полин все это было свято). In Pauline’s eyes (в глазах Полин) – ”