Английский с Эдгаром По. Падение дома Ашеров / Edgar Allan Poe. The Fall of the House of Usher

To lighten the depression of his spirits, the Baron hurried into the open air. At the principal gate of the palace he encountered three equerries. With much difficulty, and at the imminent peril of their lives, they were restraining the convulsive plunges of a gigantic and fiery-colored horse.

“Whose horse (чей конь)? Where did you get him (где вы взяли его)?” demanded the youth, in a querulous and husky tone of voice (спросил юноша недовольным и сиплым голосом; tone – тон, звук), as he became instantly aware (так как он мгновенно понял: «стал знающим»; aware – знающий) that the mysterious steed in the tapestried chamber was the very counterpart of the furious animal before his eyes (что таинственный конь в гобеленной комнате был сущим двойником яростного животного перед его глазами).

“Whose horse? Where did you get him?” demanded the youth, in a querulous and husky tone of voice, as he became instantly aware that the mysterious steed in the tapestried chamber was the very counterpart of the furious animal before his eyes.

“He is your own property, sire,” replied one of the equerries (он – ваша собственность, сир, – ответил один из конюших), “at least he is claimed by no other owner (по крайней мере, на него не претендует никакой другой владелец; to claim – заявлять, претендовать). We caught him flying (мы поймали его, летящего = несущегося), all smoking and foaming with rage (всего дымящегося и исходящего пеной от ярости), from the burning stables of the Castle Berlifitzing (из горящих конюшен замка Берлифитцинг).

“He is your own property, sire,” replied one of the equerries, “at least he is claimed by no other owner. We caught him flying, all smoking and foaming with rage, from the burning stables of the Castle Berlifitzing.

Supposing him to have belonged to the old Count’s stud of foreign horses (предположив, что он принадлежал к заводу иностранных лошадей старого графа; count – граф), we led him back as an estray (мы привели его назад = к нам домой как бродячее животное; to lead). But the grooms there disclaim any title to the creature (но конюхи там отказываются от какого-либо права на это животное); which is strange (чт'o странно), since he bears evident marks (так как он носит = имеет явные следы) of having made a narrow escape from the flames (того, что еле спасся из пламени; escape – побег, спасение; to make an escape – совершить побег, спастись; narrow – узкий; a narrow escape – побег, который еле удалось совершить).

Supposing him to have belonged to the old Count’s stud of foreign horses, we led him back as an estray. But the grooms there disclaim any title to the creature; which is strange, since he bears evident marks of having made a narrow escape from the flames.

“The letters W. V. B. are also branded very distinctly on his forehead,” interrupted a second equerry (буквы W. V. B. также выжжены совершенно ясно на его лбу = клеймо поставлено, прервал второй конюший), “I supposed them, of course, to be the initials of Wilhelm von Berlifitzing (я предположил, конечно, что они – инициалы Вильгельма фон Берлифитцинга) – but all at the castle are positive (но все в замке абсолютно уверены) in denying any knowledge of the horse (в отрицании какого-либо знания об этом коне = отрицая, что знают этого коня).”

“The letters W. V. B. are also branded very distinctly on his forehead,” interrupted a second equerry, “I supposed them, of course, to be the initials of Wilhelm von Berlifitzing – but all at the castle are positive in denying any knowledge of the horse.”

“Extremely singular!” said the young Baron, with a musing air (крайне необычайно! – сказал юный барон с задумчивым видом), and apparently unconscious of the meaning of his words (и очевидно не сознающий значения своих слов). “He is, as you say, a remarkable horse – a prodigious horse (он, как вы говорите, замечательный конь – чудесный конь)! although, as you very justly observe, of a suspicious and untractable character (хотя, как вы очень справедливо отмечаете, – подозрительного и неподатливого характера), let him be mine, however,” he added, after a pause (пусть он будет моим, тем не менее, – прибавил он после некоторого молчания: «паузы»), “perhaps a rider like Frederick of Metzengerstein, may tame even the devil from the stables of Berlifitzing (возможно, такой наездник, как Фредерик Метценгерштейн, может укротить даже дьявола из конюшен Берлифитцинга).”

“Extremely singular!” said the young Baron, with a musing air, and apparently unconscious of the meaning of his words. “He is, as you say, a remarkable horse – a prodigious horse! although, as you very justly observe, of a suspicious and untractable character, let him be mine, however,” he added, after a pause, “perhaps a rider like Frederick of Metzengerstein, may tame even the devil from the stables of Berlifitzing.”

“You are mistaken, my lord (вы ошибаетесь, милорд); the horse, as I think we mentioned, is not from the stables of the Count (этот конь, как, я думаю, мы отметили, – не из конюшен графа). If such had been the case (если бы дело обстояло так: «если бы таким было дело»), we know our duty better than to bring him into the presence of a noble of your family (мы знаем наш долг лучше, чем приводить… = мы знаем свой долг и не стали бы приводить его к какому-либо дворянину из вашей семьи; presence – присутствие, общество какого-либо человека).”

“You are mistaken, my lord; the horse, as I think we mentioned, is not from the stables of the Count. If such had been the case, we know our duty better than to bring him into the presence of a noble of your family.”

“True!” observed the Baron, dryly (верно! – заметил барон сухо), and at that instant a page of the bedchamber came from the palace (а в этот момент паж из спальни прибежал из дворца) with a heightened color, and a precipitate step (раскрасневшийся: «с уярченным цветом» и стремительным шагом; to heighten – повышать, усиливать, делать цвет ярче). He whispered into his master’s ear an account (он прошептал своему господину на ухо рассказ) of the sudden disappearance of a small portion of the tapestry (о внезапном исчезновении маленького кусочка гобелена), in an apartment which he designated (в покое, который он указал); entering, at the same time, into particulars of a minute and circumstantial character (вдаваясь в то же время в частности мельчайшего и обстоятельного характера); but from the low tone of voice in which these latter were communicated (но из тихого звука голоса, которым эти последние = детали были сообщены), nothing escaped to gratify the excited curiosity of the equerries (ничто не убежало = не было слышно, чтобы удовлетворить возбужденное любопытство конюших).

“True!” observed the Baron, dryly, and at that instant a page of the bedchamber came from the palace with a heightened color, and a precipitate step. He whispered into his master’s ear an account of the sudden disappearance of a small portion of the tapestry, in an apartment which he designated; entering, at the same time, into particulars of a minute and circumstantial character; but from the low tone of voice in which these latter were communicated, nothing escaped to gratify the excited curiosity of the equerries.

The young Frederick, during the conference, seemed agitated by a variety of emotions (юный Фредерик во время этой беседы казался возбужденным /целой/ гаммой чувств). He soon, however, recovered his composure (он скоро, впрочем, вернул себе свое хладнокровие), and an expression of determined malignancy settled upon his countenance (и выражение решительной злобы установилось на его лице), as he gave peremptory orders (в то время как он отдавал не допускающие сомнения приказания) that a certain chamber should be immediately locked up (что некоторая комната должна быть немедленно заперта), and the key placed in his own possession (а ключи отданы ему: «помещены в его обладание»).

The young Frederick, during the conference, seemed agitated by a variety of emotions. He soon, however, recovered his composure, and an expression of determined malignancy settled upon his countenance, as he gave peremptory orders that a certain chamber should be immediately locked up, and the key placed in his own possession.

“Have you heard of the unhappy death of the old hunter Berlifitzing?” said one of his vassals to the Baron (вы слышали о несчастной гибели старого охотника Берлифитцинга? – сказал один из вассалов барону), as, after the departure of the page, the huge steed which that nobleman had adopted as his own (когда, после ухода пажа, огромный конь, которого сей дворянин принял как своего собственного), plunged and curvetted, with redoubled fury, down the long avenue (ринулся и поскакал с удвоенным неистовством по длинной аллее) which extended from the ch^ateau to the stables of Metzengerstein (которая шла от замка к конюшням Метценгерштейна).