Английский с О. Генри. Вождь краснокожих / O. Henry. The Ransom of Red Chief

knife [naf], nervous ['n:vs], afraid ['fred]

I got the knife away from the kid and made him lie down again. But, from that moment, Bill's spirit was broken. He laid down on his side of the bed, but he never closed an eye again in sleep as long as that boy was with us. I dozed off for a while, but along toward sun-up I remembered that Red Chief had said I was to be burned at the stake at the rising of the sun. I wasn't nervous or afraid; but I sat up and lit my pipe and leaned against a rock.

“What you getting up so soon for, Sam?” asked Bill.

“Me?” says I. “Oh, I got a kind of a pain in my shoulder. I thought sitting up would rest it.”

“You're a liar!” says Bill (врешь ты: «ты лгун»! – говорит Билл). “You're afraid (ты боишься). You was to be burned at sunrise (= you were to be…; ты должен был быть сожжен с восходом солнца), and you was afraid he'd do it (= you were…; и ты боишься, что он /так и/ сделает). And he would, too (а он так и сделал бы), if he could find a match (если бы смог найти спички). Ain't it awful, Sam (ведь это просто ужас: «разве это не ужасно», Сэм; ain't = am not, is not, are not, have not, has not – свойственная просторечию универсальная форма отрицания

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