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The man stood still for fully a minute, as though debating with himself. Then he called out:

"I say, Bill, I've sprained my ankle."

Bill staggered on through the milky water. He did not look around. The man watched him go, and though his face was expressionless as ever, his eyes were like the eyes of a wounded deer.

The other man limped up the farther bank and continued straight on without looking back. The man in the stream watched him. His lips trembled a little, so that the rough thatch of brown hair which covered them was visibly agitated. His tongue even strayed out to moisten them.

"Bill!" he cried out (Билл! — выкрикнул он). It was the pleading cry of a strong man in distress (это был умоляющий крик сильного мужчины в нужде; distress — физическая боль, недомогание; затруднительное положение, стесненные обстоятельства), but Bill's head did not turn (но голова Билла не повернулась). The man watched him go (мужчина смотрел, как тот уходит), limping grotesquely and lurching forward with stammering gait up the slow slope toward the soft sky-line of the low-lying hill (нелепо прихрамывая и идя вперед шаткой, спотыкающейся походкой вверх по пологому склону к нечеткому силуэту низко лежащего холма; to lurch — идти шатаясь, пошатываться; to stammer — запинаться; soft — приятный для глаз; мягкий, приглушенный /о цвете и т. п./; неконтрастный; sky-line — контур, силуэт на фоне неба /здания или др. предметов/). He watched him go (он наблюдал за его уходом) till he passed over the crest and disappeared (пока тот не перевалил через гребень и не исчез; to pass — пересекать, переходить, переезжать; переправляться). Then he turned his gaze and slowly took in the circle of the world (потом он отвернул свой взгляд и медленно осмотрел жизненное пространство: «круг мира»; to take in — смотреть, видеть: «брать в себя /зрением/»; circle — круг; область, сфера; округа) that remained to him now that Bill was gone (которое осталось ему теперь, когда Билл ушел; to be gone — уйти, пропасть, исчезнуть: «быть ушедшим»).

"Bill!" he cried out. It was the pleading cry of a strong man in distress, but Bill's head did not turn. The man watched him go, limping grotesquely and lurching forward with stammering gait up the slow slope toward the soft sky-line of the low-lying hill. He watched him go till he passed over the crest and disappeared. Then he turned his gaze and slowly took in the circle of the world that remained to him now that Bill was gone.