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Роберт Льюис Стивенсон
2. He never wrote or received a letter, and he never spoke with any but the neighbours, and with these, for the most part, only when drunk on rum. The great sea-chest none of us had ever seen open.
1. He was only once crossed (ему лишь однажды перечили;
towards [tq`wLdz] decline [dI`klaIn] horse [hLs] stabling [`steIblIN]
2. I followed him in (я вошел вслед за ним), and I remember observing the contrast the neat, bright doctor (помню наблюдение контраста /между/ опрятным веселым доктором), with his powder as white as snow (с париком, белым словно снег;
3. 'Fifteen men on the dead man's chest (пятнадцать человек на сундук мертвеца) Yo-ho-ho, and a bottle of rum (йо-хо-хо, и бутылка рому)! Drink and the devil had done for the rest (пей, а дьявол покончил с остальным;
bright [braIt] powder [`paudq] pleasant [pleznt] eternal [I`tq: nl]
1. He was only once crossed, and that was towards the end, when my poor father was far gone in a decline that took him off. Dr Livesey came late one afternoon to see the patient, took a bit of dinner from my mother, and went into the parlour to smoke a pipe until his horse should come down from the hamlet, for we had no stabling at the old 'Benbow.
2. I followed him in, and I remember observing the contrast the neat, bright doctor, with his powder as white as snow, and his bright, black eyes and pleasant manners, made with the coltish country folk, and above all, with that filthy, heavy, bleared scarecrow of a pirate of ours, sitting, far gone in rum, with his arms on the table. Suddenly he — the captain, that is — began to pipe up his eternal song: —