Английский с улыбкой. Брет Гарт, Стивен Ликок. Дефективный детектив

Was this the dawn of love? Wait and see. Do not spoil the story.

Let us speak of Gertrude. Gertrude DeMongmorenci McFiggin had known neither father nor mother. They had both died years before she was born. Of her mother she knew nothing, save that she was French, was extremely beautiful, and that all her ancestors and even her business acquaintances had perished in the Revolution.

Yet Gertrude cherished the memory of her parents.

On her breast the girl wore a locket in which was enshrined a miniature of her mother (на груди девушка носила медальон, в котором хранился миниатюрный /портрет/ матери; to enshrine – помещать в ковчег, раку; бережно хранить), while down her neck inside at the back hung a daguerreotype of her father (тогда как на шее со стороны спины висел дагерротип ее отца; to hang). She carried a portrait of her grandmother up her sleeve (портрет бабушки она носила на рукаве) and had pictures of her cousins tucked inside her boot (а изображения двоюродных братьев и сестер были засунуты в башмаки; picture – рисунок, картина; изображение), while beneath her – but enough, quite enough (тогда как под нею… но достаточно, вполне достаточно).

Of her father Gertrude knew even less (о своем отце Гертруда знала даже еще меньше). That he was a high-born English gentleman (он был английским джентльменом знатного происхождения) who had lived as a wanderer in many lands (который путешествовал и жил во многих странах; wanderer – странник, скиталец; land – земля, суша; страна, государство), this was all she knew (вот все, что она знала).

On her breast the girl wore a locket in which was enshrined a miniature of her mother, while down her neck inside at the back hung a daguerreotype of her father. She carried a portrait of her grandmother up her sleeve and had pictures of her cousins tucked inside her boot, while beneath her – but enough, quite enough.

Of her father Gertrude knew even less. That he was a high-born English gentleman who had lived as a wanderer in many lands, this was all she knew.

His only legacy to Gertrude had been a Russian grammar (единственными /вещами, которые/ он /оставил/ Гертруде в наследство, были грамматика русского языка), a Roumanian phrase-book, a theodolite, and a work on mining engineering (румынский разговорник, теодолит и трактат по горному делу; phrase-book – фразеологический словарь; разговорник /для путешественников/; work – работа, занятие; труд, сочинение /научного или художественного характера/).

From her earliest infancy Gertrude had been brought up by her aunt (с самого раннего младенчества Гертруду воспитывала тетя; to bring up – воспитывать, растить). Her aunt had carefully instructed her in Christian principles (тетя старательно наставляла ее в основах христианства). She had also taught her Mohammedanism to make sure (она также учила ее магометанству, так, на всякий случай; to teach; to make sure – убедиться, удостовериться).