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| The wheels came rattling closer and closer and his feet refused to move. | Колеса громыхали, паровоз приближался, а ноги отказывались служить Рубашову. |
| He woke up with nausea and felt the cold perspiration on his forehead; the other people in the compartment looked at him in slight astonishment. | Когда он проснулся, его мутило; лоб был покрыт холодной испариной; пассажиры поглядывали на него с удивлением. |
| Outside was night; the train was rushing through a dark enemy country, the affair with Richard had to be concluded, his tooth was aching. | Поезд мчался по вражеской стране; за окном расстилалась глухая ночь; судьба Рихарда ожидала решения; зуб отчаянно, невыносимо болел. |
| A week later he was arrested. | Через неделю Рубашова арестовали. |
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| Rubashov leant his forehead against the window and looked down into the yard He was tired in the legs and dizzy in the head from walking up and down. | Рубашов прижался лбом к стеклу и посмотрел вниз, на тюремный двор. У него, от хождения взад-вперед, гудели ноги и кружилась голова. |
| He looked at his watch; a quarter to twelve; he had been walking to and fro in his cell for nearly four hours on end, since first the Piet? had occurred to him. | Часы показывали без четверти двенадцать, а Пиету он вспомнил около восьми четыре чaca беспрерывной ходьбы. |
| It did not surprise him; he was well enough acquainted with the day-dreams of imprisonment, with the intoxication which emanates from the whitewashed walls. | Но это нисколько его не удивило: он знал о дневных видениях одиночников и гипнотической отраве беленых стен. |
| He remembered a younger comrade, by profession a hairdresser's assistant, telling him how, in his second and worst year of solitary confinement, he had dreamed for seven hours on end with his eyes open; in doing so he had walked twenty-eight kilometres, in a cell five paces long, and had blistered his feet without noticing it. | Молодой партиец, ученик парикмахера, однажды рассказывал Рубашову о том, как на втором году одиночного заключения, показавшемся ему особенно тяжким, он грезил наяву семь часов подряд и прошел без передышки двадцать восемь километров по камере всего в пять шагов длиной; при этом он стер себе ноги до крови, но ничего не замечал, пока не опомнился. |
| This time, however, it had come rather quickly; already, the first day the voice had befallen him, whereas during his previous experiences it had started only after several weeks. |
