| - Зарывай,- сказал будочник, отходя прочь. |
| Grandmother began to cry, covering her face with a corner of the shawl which she wore for a head-covering. | Бабушка заплакала, спрятав лицо в конец головного платка. |
| The gravediggers, bending nearly double, began to fling the lumps of earth on the coffin rapidly, striking the frogs, which were leaping against the sides of the pit, down to the bottom. | Мужики, согнувшись, торопливо начали сбрасывать землю в могилу, захлюпала вода; спрыгнув с гроба, лягушки стали бросаться на стенки ямы, комья земли сшибали их на дно. |
| "Come along, Lenia," said grandmother, taking hold of my shoulder; but having no desire to depart, I wriggled out of her hands. | - Отойди, Лёня,- сказала бабушка, взяв меня за плечо; я выскользнул из-под её руки, не хотелось уходить. |
| "What next, O Lord?" grumbled grandmother, partly to me, and partly to God, and she remained for some time silent, with her head drooping dejectedly. The grave was filled in, yet still she stood there, till the gravediggers threw their shovels to the ground with a resounding clangor, and a breeze suddenly arose and died away, scattering the raindrops; then she took me by the hand and led me to a church some distance away, by a path which lay between a number of dark crosses. | - Экой ты, господи,- пожаловалась бабушка, не то на меня, не то на бога, и долго стояла молча, опустив голову; уже могила сровнялась с землёй, а она всё ещё стоит. Мужики гулко шлёпали лопатами по земле; налетел ветер и прогнал, унёс дождь. Бабушка взяла меня за руку и повела к далёкой церкви, среди множества тёмных крестов. |
| "Why don't you cry?" she asked, as we came away from the burial-ground. | - Ты что не поплачешь? - спросила она, когда вышла за ограду. |
| "You ought to cry." | Поплакал бы! |
| "I don't want to," was my reply. | - Не хочется,- сказал я. |
| "Well, if you don't want to, you need not," she said gently. | - Ну, не хочется, так и не надо,- тихонько выговорила она. |
| This greatly surprised me, because I seldom cried, and when I did it was more from anger than sorrow; moreover, my father used to laugh at my tears, while my mother would exclaim, | Всё это было удивительно: я плакал редко и только от обиды, не от боли; отец всегда смеялся над моими слезами, а мать кричала: |
| "Don't you dare to cry!" | - Не смей плакать! |
| After this we rode in a droshky through a broad but squalid street, between rows of houses which were painted dark red. As we went along, I asked grandmother, |
