) and a door with an iron grille behind the glass (и дверь с металлической решеткой позади стекла). True (правда), in the keystone above the arch of the entrance (на замковом камне над аркой входа) were chiseled the words CHRISTIAN DIOR (были высечены слова КРИСТИАН ДИОР), but no other identification (но никаких других опознавательных знаков).
stir [stW], pearly ['pWlI], chisel [CIzl]
And a strange misgiving stirred in the thin breast beneath the tan twill coat. It was no store at all, like Selfridge's on Oxford Street, or Harrod's, or Marks & Spencer, where she did her shopping and which was the S. J. Klein of London, not a proper store at all, with windows for display and wax figures with pearly smiles and pink cheeks, arms outstretched in elegant attitudes to show off the clothes that were for sale. There was nothing, nothing at all, but some windows shaded by ruffled gray curtains and a door with an iron grille behind the glass. True, in the keystone above the arch of the entrance were chiseled the words CHRISTIAN DIOR, but no other identification.
When you have desired something as deeply (когда вы желали чего-то так же сильно; deeply — глубоко; очень/сильно) as Mrs. Harris had longed for her Paris dress (как миссис Харрис страстно желала свое парижское платье), and for such a time (и в течение такого времени), and when at last that deep-rooted feminine yearning (и когда наконец это глубоко укоренившееся женское чаяние) is about to taste the sweetness of fulfillment (вот-вот вкусит сладость осуществления), every moment attending its achievement becomes acute and indelibly memorable (каждый миг, сопутствующий его исполнению, становится острым = пронзительным и неизгладимо запоминающимся; indelible — незабываемый/неизгладимый).
achievement [q'CJvmqnt], indelibly [In'delIblI], memorable ['memqrqbl]
When you have desired something as deeply as Mrs. Harris had longed for her Paris dress, and for such a time, and when at last that deep-rooted feminine yearning is about to taste the sweetness of fulfillment, every moment attending its achievement becomes acute and indelibly memorable.
Standing alone now on the pave in a foreign city (стоя в одиночестве теперь на мостовой в чужом: «иностранном» городе), assailed by the foreign roar of foreign traffic (настигнутая чужим/чуждым шумом чужого/иностранного транспорта) and the foreign bustle of foreign passers-by (и чужой суетой иностранных прохожих), outside the great gray mansion (снаружи =
