| Whatever came of it, I determined to walk through Enkhuizen on the bare chance of meeting some one who might inform me of Mrs. Van Brandt's address. | Что бы ни вышло из этого, я решился идти по Энкхейзину на случай, не посчастливится ли найти контору рыбных промыслов и узнать адрес мистрис Ван Брандт. |
| First taking the precaution of locking my cabin door, I stepped from the bulwark of the vessel to the lonely quay, and set forth upon my night wanderings through the Dead City. | Сначала очень осторожно заперев дверь каюты, я сошел на уединенную набережную и отправился в ночное странствование по мертвому городу. |
| CHAPTER XXXV. UNDER THE WINDOW. | Глава XXXVI ПОД ОКНОМ |
| I SET the position of the harbor by my pocket-compass, and then followed the course of the first street that lay before me. | Я уточнил расположение пристани по карманному компасу, а потом пошел по первой же улице, находившейся передо мной. |
| On either side, as I advanced, the desolate old houses frowned on me. | С каждой стороны, когда я шел, уединенные, старые дома хмурились на меня. |
| There were no lights in the windows, no lamps in the streets. | В окнах не было огней, на улице фонарей. |
| For a quarter of an hour at least I penetrated deeper and deeper into the city, without encountering a living creature on my way-with only the starlight to guide me. Turning by chance into a street broader than the rest, I at last saw a moving figure, just visible ahead, under the shadows of the houses. I quickened my pace, and found myself following a man in the dress of a peasant. Hearing my footsteps behind him, he turned and looked at me. Discovering that I was a stranger, he lifted a thick cudgel that he carried with him, shook it threateningly, and called to me in his own language (as I gathered by his actions) to stand back. A stranger in Eukhuizen at that time of night was evidently reckoned as a robber in the estimation of this citizen! I had learned on the voyage, from the captain of the boat, how to ask my way in Dutch, if I happened to be by myself in a strange town; and I now repeated my lesson, asking my way to the fishing office of Messrs. Van Brandt. Either my foreign accent made me unintelligible, or the man's suspicions disinclined him to trust me. Again he shook his cudgel, and again he signed to me to stand back. It was useless to persist. I crossed to the opposite side of the way, and soon afterward lost sight of him under the portico of a house. | С четверть часа, по крайней мере, я углублялся все дальше в город, не встретив живого существа, и только сопровождаемый звездным мерцанием. |
