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| "If you remember, Monday was an exceedingly hot day, and Mrs. St. Clair walked slowly, glancing about in the hope of seeing a cab, as she did not like the neighbourhood in which she found herself. | - Рассказывайте. |
| While she was walking in this way down Swandam Lane, she suddenly heard an ejaculation or cry, and was struck cold to see her husband looking down at her and, as it seemed to her, beckoning to her from a second-floor window. | - Несколько лет назад - точнее, в мае 1884 года - в Ли появился джентльмен по имени Невилл Сент-Клер, который, видимо, имел много денег. |
| The window was open, and she distinctly saw his face, which she describes as being terribly agitated. | Он снял большую виллу, разбил вокруг нее прекрасный сад и зажил на широкую ногу, по-барски. |
| He waved his hands frantically to her, and then vanished from the window so suddenly that it seemed to her that he had been plucked back by some irresistible force from behind. | Мало-помалу он подружился с соседями и в 1887 году женился на дочери местного пивовара, от которой теперь имеет уже двоих детей. |
| One singular point which struck her quick feminine eye was that although he wore some dark coat, such as he had started to town in, he had on neither collar nor necktie. | Определенных занятий у него нет, но он прянимает участие в нескольких коммерческих предприятиях и обычно каждое утро ездит в город, возвращаясь оттуда с поездом 5.14. |
| "Convinced that something was amiss with him, she rushed down the steps-for the house was none other than the opium den in which you found me to-night-and running through the front room she attempted to ascend the stairs which led to the first floor. | Мистеру Сент-Клеру теперь тридцать семь лет. |
| At the foot of the stairs, however, she met this Lascar scoundrel of whom I have spoken, who thrust her back and, aided by a Dane, who acts as assistant there, pushed her out into the street. | Живет он скромно; он хороший муж и любящий отец; люди, встречавшиеся с ним, отзываются о нем превосходно. |
| Filled with the most maddening doubts and fears, she rushed down the lane and, by rare good-fortune, met in Fresno Street a number of constables with an inspector, all on their way to their beat. | Могу еще прибавить, что долгов у него всего восемьдесят восемь фунтов десять шиллингов, а в банке на его текущем счету двести двадцать фунтов стерлингов. |
| The inspector and two men accompanied her back, and in spite of the continued resistance of the proprietor, they made their way to the room in which Mr. St. Clair had last been seen. |
