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interval [`Intqv(q)l], mustard [`mAstqd], succeeded [sqk`sJdId]

“Thank you,” he said at the same time, and did not stir until she was closing the door. Then he swung round and approached the table with a certain eager quickness.

As she went behind the bar to the kitchen she heard a sound repeated at regular intervals. Chirk, chirk, chirk, it went, the sound of a spoon being rapidly whisked round a basin.

“That girl!” she said. “There! I clean forgot it. It’s her being so long!” And while she herself finished mixing the mustard, she gave Millie a few verbal stabs for her excessive slowness. She had cooked the ham and eggs, laid the table, and done everything, while Millie (help indeed!) had only succeeded in delaying the mustard. And him a new guest and wanting to stay! Then she filled the mustard pot, and, putting it with a certain stateliness upon a gold and black tea-tray, carried it into the parlour.

She rapped and entered promptly (она постучала и сразу вошла; rap — легкийудар, стук). As she did so her visitor moved quickly (при этом: «когда она сделала так» ее гость сделал быстрое движение; to move — /пере/двигать/ся/), so that she got but a glimpse of a white object disappearing behind the table (и она лишь мельком увидела какой-то белый предмет, скрывшийся за столом; so that — такчто; длятого, чтобы; to get a glimpse of — увидетьмелькомчто-либо; glimpse — проблеск; мелькание; to disappear — исчезать, пропадать). It would seem he was picking something from the floor (казалось, он что-то подбирал с пола; to pick — собирать/плоды/; выбирать, подбирать). She rapped down the mustard pot on the table (миссис Холл со стуком поставила горчичницу на стол), and then she noticed the overcoat and hat had been taken off (и тут она заметила, что пальто и шляпа сняты; to take off) and put over a chair in front of the fire (и положены на стул = лежатнастуле перед огнем = перед камином), and a pair of wet boots threatened rust to her steel fender (а пара мокрых башмаков грозит ржавчиной ее стальной каминной решетке; to threaten — грозить, угрожать; предвещать/беду, опасность/; to rust — ржаветь, делатьржавым; rust — ржавчина). She went to these things resolutely (она решительно подошла к этим вещам).