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Mr. Hall, staring at them from the steps and listening (мистер Холл, глядя на них с лестницы = скрыльца и прислушиваясь), found it incredible that he had seen anything so very remarkable happen upstairs (счел невероятным тот факт, что он видел что-то очень удивительное, произошедшее наверху = начал думать, что ничего необычайного наверху он не видел; to find — находить, обнаруживать; приходитькзаключению, считать). Besides, his vocabulary was altogether too limited (кроме того, его словарный запас был очень ограниченным) to express his impressions (чтобы выразить эти впечатления).

interrogative ["Intq`rOgqtIv], judicial [GH`dIS(q)l], fatuity [fq`tjHqtI], listening [`lIs(q)nIN]

A couple of minutes after, he rejoined the little group that had formed outside the “Coach and Horses.” There was Fearenside telling about it all over again for the second time; there was Mrs. Hall saying his dog didn’t have no business to bite her guests; there was Huxter, the general dealer from over the road, interrogative; and Sandy Wadgers from the forge, judicial; besides women and children, all of them saying fatuities: “Wouldn’t let en bite me, I knows”; “’Tasn’t right have such dargs”; “Whad ’e bite ’n for, then?” and so forth.

Mr. Hall, staring at them from the steps and listening, found it incredible that he had seen anything so very remarkable happen upstairs. Besides, his vocabulary was altogether too limited to express his impressions.

“He don’t want no help, he says (говорит, ему не нужна помощь),” he said in answer to his wife’s inquiry (сказал он в ответ на вопрос жены). “We’d better be a-takin’ of his luggage in (нам лучше внести его багаж).”