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| While not engaged attending upon her pet, Miss Poindexter divided the residue of her time between indoor duties and archery. | Почти все свободное время Луиза отдавала теперь стрельбе из лука. |
| The latter she appeared to have selected as the substitute for that pastime of which she was so passionately fond, and in which she was now denied indulgence. | Местом для упражнений ей служил сад с прилегающими зарослями. |
| The scene of her sagittary performances was the garden, with its adjacent shrubbery-an extensive enclosure, three sides of which were fenced in by the river itself, curving round it like the shoe of a racehorse, the fourth being a straight line traced by the rearward wall of the hacienda. | С трех сторон его подковой охватывала река; с четвертой он замыкался задней стеной асиенды. |
| Within this circumference a garden, with ornamental grounds, had been laid out, in times long gone by-as might have been told by many ancient exotics seen standing over it. Even the statues spoke of a past age-not only in their decay, but in the personages they were intended to represent. Equally did they betray the chisel of the Spanish sculptor. | Сад был очень стар; об этом свидетельствовали не только могучие деревья, но и потрескавшиеся статуи, которые украшали его. Они были сделаны резцом испанских мастеров и изображали героев далекого прошлого. |
| Among them you might see commemorated the figure and features of the great Cond?; of the Campeador; of Ferdinand and his energetic queen; of the discoverer of the American world; of its two chief conquistadores-Cortez and Pizarro; and of her, alike famous for her beauty and devotion, the Mexican Malinch?. | Здесь вы могли увидеть великого Кондэ, Кампеадора37, Фердинанда и его энергичную королеву; великого мореплавателя, которому принадлежит честь открытия Америки; двух знаменитых конквистадоров Кортеса и Пизарро; и прославленную своей красотой и преданностью любимому человеку индианку Малинче38. |
| It was not amidst these sculptured stones that Louise Poindexter practised her feats of archery; though more than once might she have been seen standing before the statue of Malinch?, and scanning the voluptuous outline of the Indian maiden's form; not with any severe thought of scorn, that this dark-skinned daughter of Eve had succumbed to such a conqueror as Cortez. | Но не среди этих каменных изваяний упражнялась Луиза в стрельбе из лука, хотя не раз можно было видеть, как она стоит перед статуей Малинче, рассматривая ее прекрасное лицо. Луиза не находила в себе силы упрекать красавицу индианку за то, что она полюбила испанского полководца. |