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«Go on, Mr. Chalmers,» said he, «and tell the lady what's the proper caper. That's what I told her - you'd hand it to her straight. Spiel up."- Продолжайте, мистер Чалмерс, - сказал он.- Объясните даме, как ей следует поступить. Я так и говорил ей, - вы мастер на такие дела. Валяйте!
I coughed, and tried to feel less wrathful toward Tripp. I saw my duty. Cunningly I had been inveigled, but I was securely trapped. Tripp's first dictum to me had been just and correct. The young lady must be sent back to Greenburg that day. She must be argued with, convinced, assured, instructed, ticketed, and returned without delay. I hated Hiram and despised George; but duty must be done.Я кашлянул и попытался заглушить свое раздражение против Триппа. Я понял, в чем мой долг. Меня хитро заманили в ловушку, и теперь я крепко в ней сидел. В сущности говоря, то, чего хотел Трипп, было вполне справедливо. Девушку нужно вернуть в Гринбург сегодня же. Ее необходимо убедить, успокоить, научить, снабдить билетом и отправить без промедления. Я ненавидел Хайрэма и презирал Джорджа, но долг есть долг.
Noblesse oblige and only five silver dollars are not strictly romantic compatibles, but sometimes they can be made to jibe. It was mine to be Sir Oracle, and then pay the freight. So I assumed an air that mingled Solomon's with that of the general passenger agent of the Long Island Railroad.Noblesse oblige [положение обязывает] и жалкие пять серебряных долларов не всегда оказываются в романтическом соответствии, но иногда их можно свести вместе. Мое дело - быть оракулом и вдобавок оплатить проезд. И вот, войдя одновременно в роли Соломона и агента Лонг-Айлендской железной дороги, я заговорил так убедительно, как только мог.
«Miss Lowery,» said I, as impressively as I could, «life is rather a queer proposition, after all.» There was a familiar sound to these words after I had spoken them, and I hoped Miss Lowery had never heard Mr. Cohan's song. «Those whom we first love we seldom wed. Our earlier romances, tinged with the magic radiance of youth, often fail to materialize.»The last three words sounded somewhat trite when they struck the air. «But those fondly cherished dreams,» I went on, «may cast a pleasant afterglow on our future lives, however impracticable and vague they may have been. But life is full of realities as well as visions and dreams. One cannot live on memories. May I ask, Miss Lowery, if you think you could pass a happy - that is, a contented and harmonious life with Mr.-er - Dodd - if in other ways than romantic recollections he seems to - er - fill the bill, as I might say?"