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| The young creole felt, in her secret heart, that she had no right to throw a stone at that statue. | Молодая креолка чувствовала в глубине души, что не ей упрекать Малинче. |
| To one less famed than Cortez-though in her estimation equally deserving of fame-she had surrendered what the great conquistador had won from Marina-her heart of hearts. | Ведь и она сама, забыв обо всем на свете, отдала свое сердце человеку, далеко не столь знаменитому, как Кортес, хотя, по ее мнению, не менее заслуживающему славы. |
| In her excursions with the bow, which were of diurnal occurrence, she strayed not among the statues. Her game was not there to be found; but under the shadow of tall trees that, keeping the curve of the river, formed a semicircular grove between it and the garden. | Нет, не среди этих статуй Луиза Пойндекстер занималась стрельбой цз лука. Она уходила под тень высоких деревьев, которые, следуя изгибу реки, образовали полукруглую рощу между берегом и садом. |
| Most of these trees were of indigenous growth-wild Chinas, mulberries, and pec?ns-that in the laying out of the grounds had been permitted to remain where Nature, perhaps some centuries ago, had scattered their seed. | Здесь росли посаженные несколько столетий назад самой природой тутовые деревья, кедры и гикори, которые пощадил садовник, когда он разбивал сад. |
| It was under the leafy canopy of these fair forest trees the young Creole delighted to sit-or stray along the edge of the pellucid river, that rolled dreamily by. | Креолка любила сидеть под зелеными сводами этих лесных великанов или бродить по берегу прозрачной реки, которая сонно струилась мимо. |
| Here she was free to be alone; which of late appeared to be her preference. | Здесь Луиза могла быть совсем одна, а в последнее время она искала уединения. |
| Her father, in his sternest mood, could not have denied her so slight a privilege. | Отец даже в минуты самого сурового настроения не стал бы возражать против этого. |
| If there was danger upon the outside prairie, there could be none within the garden-enclosed, as it was, by a river broad and deep, and a wall that could not have been scaled without the aid of a thirty-round ladder. | Он был спокоен за нее: стены Каса-дель-Корво, на которые невозможно было взобраться без помощи высокой лестницы, глубокая и широкая река были ее надежной защитой. |
| So far from objecting to this solitary strolling, the planter appeared something more than satisfied that his daughter had taken to these tranquil habits; and the suspicions which he had conceived-not altogether without a cause-were becoming gradually dismissed from his mind. |