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| Every unmarried subaltern officer had the same articles about him, with the exception of the violoncello which Romashov had borrowed from the band attached to the regiment-in which it was completely unnecessary-with the intention of developing on it his musical talent. But as soon as he had tried in vain to teach himself the C major scale, he tired of the thing altogether, and the 'cello had now stood for more than a year, dusty and forgotten, in its dark corner. | У каждого холостого офицера, у каждого подпрапорщика были неизменно точно такие же вещи, за исключением, впрочем, виолончели; ее Ромашов взял из полкового оркестра, где она была совсем не нужна, но, не выучив даже мажорной гаммы, забросил и ее и музыку еще год тому назад. |
| More than a year ago Romashov, who had just left the military college, had taken both pride and joy in furnishing his modest lodgings. | Г од тому назад с небольшим Ромашов, только что выйдя из военного училища, с наслаждением и гордостью обзаводился этими пошлыми предметами. |
| To have a room of his own, his own things, to choose and buy household furniture according to his own liking, to arrange everything according to his own consummate taste-all that highly flattered the amour propre of that young man of two-and-twenty. It seemed only yesterday that he sat on the school form, or marched in rank and file with his comrades off to the general mess-room to eat, at the word of command, his frugal breakfast. To-day he was his own master. And how many hopes and plans sprang into his brain in the course of those never-to-be-forgotten days when he furnished and "adorned" his new home! | Конечно - своя квартира, собственные вещи, возможность покупать, выбирать по своему усмотрению, устраиваться по своему вкусу - все это наполняло самолюбивым восторгом душу двадцатилетнего мальчика, вчера только сидевшего на ученической скамейке и ходившего к чаю и завтраку в строю, вместе с товарищами. И как много было надежд и планов в то время, когда покупались эти жалкие предметы роскоши!.. |
| What a severe programme he composed for his future! | Какая строгая программа жизни намечалась! |
| The first two years were to be devoted chiefly to a thorough study of classical literature, French and German, and also music. | В первые два года - основательное знакомство с классической литературой, систематическое изучение французского и немецкого языков, занятия музыкой. |
| After that, a serious preparation for entering the Staff College was to follow. |
