Lenchick: переводы

→‘In what way?’

→When she had gone Demelza said: ‘What a strange visit, Ross!’

→‘Jeremy told me.’

→‘A Base Metals and Mining Commission,’ agreed Ross. ‘It is not of great importance. How did you learn of it?’

→‘And now a member of a Commission in London, isn’t it? Metals or something?’

→‘Being the owner of mines,’ said Ross. ‘That is how I live, and that is how I came by the rest.’

→‘But Captain Poldark, you are so famously well known about the county! And a member of parliament. And a banker, I believe!’

→‘In our circumstances, for instance,’ Ross said pleasantly. ‘I suppose it all depends on the degree of affluence one has. I think, had we had wealth we could draw upon from outside, my wife would have demanded there should be no piles of attle or red stream to disfigure our pretty valley. As it is, we welcome it because it provides us with some of the elegancies of life. Without it – and without Wheal Leisure on the cliff – we should be very little more than poor farmers.’

→‘At least now,’ Selina said, ‘I can keep my house in peace.’ She stopped in confusion. ‘Forgive me, I didn’t mean in the least that the opening of mines was not – was not desirable in some – some circumstances.’

→There was a brief silence.

→‘Yes, I did. I think it was your son who advised me in the first place.’

→‘I did very little except confirm that the price you were offering was about right. You must have had advice before that.’

→‘Yes. I had a visit from Sir Unwin Trevaunance a little while ago and I was able to convince him that a mere woman could be as determined as any man, so he has agreed to the purchase and the deed is being drawn up.’

→‘Do you mean about the mining rights?’

→‘I came partly,’ Selina said, ‘to thank you for your advice at the Trenwith party, Captain Poldark.’

→I know who she looks like! Demelza thought. Every now and then she has a look of Elizabeth. I wonder if Ross has noticed it. I rather hope not!

→‘No country was ever founded on such noble principles,’ Ross said. ‘It’s something to have the principles even if one cannot live up to them. If your Boston legislators could but persuade the country to propose a peace, we should be shown up as the fools we were to provoke the conflict.’

→‘No. My parents went over there when I was a child. They lived in New York. I married from there and lived at Perth Amboy in New Jersey until my husband retired and we returned to England. He was originally from Kent. But, of course, living over there as we did, you make friends, see their point of view, you understand.’

→Selina nodded. ‘A letter I had from a friend in Boston says if this war goes on there will be great pressures within the country to split up into – into loosely connected states, I think he said. Massachusetts is deeply opposed to the war.’

→‘Are you American?’ asked Demelza.