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Илья Михайлович Франк
The old Master had come to a bad end (старый Глава Города плохо кончил). Bard had given him much gold for the help of the Lake-people (Бард отдал ему много золота, чтобы помочь Людям-с-Озера), but being of the kind that easily catches such disease (но так как он был из людей такого сорта, что легко подхватывают подобные болезни) he fell under the dragon-sickness (то он заболел драконьей болезнью;
memoir [ˈmemwɑ: ] extensive [ɪkˈstensɪv] refound [ri: ˈfaʋnd] disease [dɪˈzi: z]
One autumn evening some years afterwards Bilbo was sitting in his study writing his memoirs — he thought of calling them “There and Back Again, a Hobbit’s Holiday” — when there was a ring at the door. It was Gandalf and a dwarf; and the dwarf was actually Balin.
“Come in! Come in!” said Bilbo, and soon they were settled in chairs by the fire. If Balin noticed that Mr. Baggins’ waistcoat was more extensive (and had real gold buttons), Bilbo also noticed that Balin’s beard was several inches longer, and his jewelled belt was of great magnificence. They fell to talking of their times together, of course, and Bilbo asked how things were going in the lands of the Mountain. It seemed they were going very well. Bard had rebuilt the town in Dale and men had gathered to him from the Lake and from South and West, and all the valley had become tilled again and rich, and the desolation was now filled with birds and blossoms in spring and fruit and feasting in autumn. And Lake-town was refounded and was more prosperous than ever, and much wealth went up and down the Running River; and there was friendship in those parts between elves and dwarves and men. The old Master had come to a bad end. Bard had given him much gold for the help of the Lake-people, but being of the kind that easily catches such disease he fell under the dragon-sickness, and took most of the gold and fled with it, and died of starvation in the Waste, deserted by his companions.
