| After this he was not seen again on any nocturnal expedition. | Больше он не предпринимал ночных вылазок. |
| The twins lay in wait for him on several occasions, and strewed the passages with nutshells every night to the great annoyance of their parents and the servants, but it was of no avail. | Близнецы несколько раз устраивали на него засады и каждый вечер, к великому неудовольствию родителей и прислуги, посыпали пол в коридоре ореховой скорлупой, но все безрезультатно. |
| It was quite evident that his feelings were so wounded that he would not appear. | Дух, по-видимому, счел себя настолько обиженным, что не желал больше выходить к обитателям дома. |
| Mr. Otis consequently resumed his great work on the history of the Democratic Party, on which he had been engaged for some years; Mrs. Otis organized a wonderful clam-bake, which amazed the whole county; the boys took to lacrosse euchre, poker, and other American national games, and Virginia rode about the lanes on her pony, accompanied by the young Duke of Cheshire, who had come to spend the last week of his holidays at Canterville Chase. | Поэтому мистер Отис снова уселся за свой труд по истории демократической партии, над которым работал уже много лет; миссис Отис организовала великолепный, поразивший все графство пикник на морском берегу,- все кушанья были приготовлены из моллюсков; мальчики увлеклись лакроссом, покером, юкром и другими американскими национальными играми. А Вирджиния каталась по аллеям на своем пони с молодым герцогом Чеширским, проводившим в Кентервильском замке последнюю неделю своих каникул. |
| It was generally assumed that the ghost had gone away, and, in fact, Mr. Otis wrote a letter to that effect to Lord Canterville, who, in reply, expressed his great pleasure at the news, and sent his best congratulations to the Minister's worthy wife. | Все решили, что привидение от них съехало, и мистер Отис известил об этом в письменной форме лорда Кентервиля, который в ответном письме выразил по сему поводу свою радость и поздравил достойную супругу посла. |
| The Otises, however, were deceived, for the ghost was still in the house, and though now almost an invalid, was by no means ready to let matters rest, particularly as he heard that among the guests was the young Duke of Cheshire, whose grand-uncle, Lord Francis Stilton, had once bet a hundred guineas with Colonel Carbury that he would play dice with the Canterville ghost, and was found the next morning lying on the floor of the card-room in such a helpless paralytic state that, though he lived on to a great age, he was never able to say anything again but "Double Sixes." |
