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1. 'Pig-nuts! repeated Merry, in a scream. 'Mates, do you hear that? I tell you, now, that man there knew it all along. Look in the face of him, and you'll see it wrote there.

2. 'Ah, Merry, remarked Silver, 'standing for cap'n again? You're a pushing lad, to be sure.

3. But this time everyone was entirely in Merry's favour. They began to scramble out of the excavation, darting furious glances behind them. One thing I observed, which looked well for us: they all got out upon the opposite side from Silver.

4. Well, there we stood, two on one side, five on the other the pit between us, and nobody screwed up high enough to offer the first blow. Silver never moved; he watched them very upright on his crutch, and looked as cool as ever I saw him. He was brave, and no mistake.

1. At last, Merry seemed to think a speech might help matters (наконец, Мерри, кажется, подумал, что речь поможет делу).

2. 'Mates (друзья), says he, 'there's two of them alone there (их здесь только двое); one's the old cripple that brought us all here and blundered us down to this (один — старый калека, который привел нас всех сюда и провалил все; blunder — грубая ошибка; промах, просчет; to blunder — плохо справляться с чем-л.; испортить; напутать); the other's that cub that I mean to have the heart of (другой — щенок, у которого я хочу вырезать сердце; cub — щенок, неопытный юнец). Now, mates (итак, друзья) —

3. He was raising his arm and his voice (он поднял руку и повысил голос), and plainly meant to lead a charge (очевидно, намереваясь продолжить обвинения; to lead a charge — поддерживать обвинение). But just then — crack! crack! crack! (но вдруг — пафф! пафф! пафф!) — three musket-shots flashed out of the thicket (три мушкетных выстрела грянули из чащи; to flash out — вспыхнуть, вспылить). Merry tumbled head foremost into the excavation (Мерри полетел головой вниз в яму; to tumble — рушиться, бросаться, опрокидываться); the man with the bandage spun round like a teetotum (матрос с повязкой /на голове/ закрутился волчком; to spin — прясть, сучить /шерсть/; плести /о пауке/; крутиться, кружиться), and fell all his length upon his side, where he lay dead, but still twitching (и упал во всю длину на бок = растянулся во весь рост на боку, и лежал мертвый, но все еще подергиваясь); and the other three turned and ran for it with all their might (трое остальных развернулись и пустились в бегство что есть мочи; might — мощь, энергия).

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1. At last, Merry seemed to think a speech might help matters.

2. 'Mates, says he, 'there's two of them alone there; one's the old cripple that brought us all here and blundered us down to this; the other's that cub that I mean to have the heart of. Now, mates —

3. He was raising his arm and his voice, and plainly meant to lead a charge. But just then — crack! crack! crack! — three musket-shots flashed out of the thicket. Merry tumbled head foremost into the excavation; the man with the bandage spun round like a teetotum, and fell all his length upon his side, where he lay dead, but still twitching; and the other three turned and ran for it with all their might.