nvs1408: переводы

→She looked across the table at Jason, whose appetite was good and who ate with a relish worthy of a starving sailor. Since Stephen’s accident she had seen a lot more of his son. He seemed the natural person to help her at a time like this. She saw in him some of Stephen’s traits, both disagreeable and endearing, particularly among the former his tendency to fantasize on his own prospects; his ability in his own mind to rearrange the world to his own wishes. He would never be as good-looking as Stephen, nor, she thought, as physically, as vitally, attractive; but he had an engaging manner, an optimism, a resilience that reminded her very much of the man upstairs.

→‘He has a way with him,’ said Clowance. ‘He gets on well with everyone.’

→Jason looked startled. ‘Oh, yes! Oh yes! Well he must’ve, mustn’t he. Before he could wed you.’

→When she came back she said: ‘Did your father know of your mother’s death?’

→Clowance got up now, carried the plates across to the scullery.

→‘Lord no, we never seen him! I’d never seen him, not for twelve or more year before I came here this January, and that’s God’s truth! We didn’t live in Bristol but ten mile outside. We never heard tell of him until I heard of him at Christmas time, last Christmas time. Then a man, a Cornish sailor called Tregellas, he said he knew my father was newly wed and living in Penryn and was well found with a fleet of ships. So I thought to come, and come I did, as you well know.’

→‘Two years ago your father went back to Bristol for a time. Five years ago he came from Bristol here for the first time. Was your father living with your mother, or visiting her there?’

→‘Yes . . .’

→‘January 1814?’

→‘The winter before,’ said Jason. ‘I remember snow was on the ground. ’Twould be in the January.’

→‘The winter before? You may as well tell me, as I can easy find out.’ (She did not know how, but it was a point to make.)

→‘Nay.’

→‘Last winter?’

→‘Nay, nay, she died in the winter.’

→‘I thought perhaps as soon as your mother died you came to tell your father, and so turned up here last January?’

→‘God’s sake, no! Long afore that.’

→‘You are not gossiping. And I will not tell your father. Was it last December she died?’

→‘’Twas a fool thing!’ said Jason. ‘A damn fool thing to let it out wi’ a slip of the tongue! ’Twould distress Father greatly to think I had been gossiping behind his back, like.’

→‘Well, it does,’ she said. ‘It does upset me a little to hear your mother died so recent. But now I am upset, I think I would like to know the whole of it.’

→Without getting up, Clowance began to tidy the table, putting plates together and gathering spoons. She was doing it instinctively, with no awareness of her actions.