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“Would you mind, sir (вы не возражаете, сэр), this man a-coming to look at the clock, sir (если этот человек войдет осмотреть часы, сэр; a-coming= coming; tolook— /о/смотреть; проверить)?” she said, recovering from the momentary shock (сказала она, приходя в себя после минутного потрясения; momentary— мгновенный, кратковременный).

enormous [I`nLmqs], yawn [jLn], recovering [rI`kAvqrIN], momentary [`mqumqnt(q)rI]

But for a second it seemed to her that the man she looked at had an enormous mouth wide open — a vast and incredible mouth that swallowed the whole of the lower portion of his face. It was the sensation of a moment: the white-bound head, the monstrous goggle eyes, and this huge yawn below it. Then he stirred, started up in his chair, put up his hand. She opened the door wide, so that the room was lighter, and she saw him more clearly, with the muffler held up to his face just as she had seen him hold the serviette before. The shadows, she fancied, had tricked her.

“Would you mind, sir, this man a-coming to look at the clock, sir?” she said, recovering from the momentary shock.

“Look at the clock (осмотреть часы)?” he said, staring round in a drowsy manner (сказал он, сонно озираясь по сторонам; to stare — пристальноглядеть; уставиться; drowsy — сонный, сонливый, вялый; in a manner — каким-либообразом; manner — способ, образдействия; манера), and speaking over his hand (говоря через руку /с шарфом/), and then, getting more fully awake, “certainly (потом, полностью пробудившись, /добавил/: «Конечно»; to awake — разбудить, пробудить/ся/; awake — проснувшийся, бодрствующий).”