| Indeed, with a feminine eye for costume, she had at once identified the damask dressing-gown, which enveloped him, as the same in figure, material, and fashion, with that so elaborately represented in the picture. | Действительно, благодаря своей разборчивости в костюмах, она тотчас догадалась, что его шлафрок, по виду, материалу и моде, был тем самым, что изображен на портрете. |
| This old, faded garment, with all its pristine brilliancy extinct, seemed, in some indescribable way, to translate the wearer's untold misfortune, and make it perceptible to the beholder's eye. It was the better to be discerned, by this exterior type, how worn and old were the soul's more immediate garments; that form and countenance, the beauty and grace of which had almost transcended the skill of the most exquisite of artists. | Это старое, полинялое платье, потерявшее весь свой прежний блеск, казалось, говорило каким-то особенным языком, которому нет названия, о тайном бедствии, постигшем его хозяина. |
| It could the more adequately be known that the soul of the man must have suffered some miserable wrong, from its earthly experience. | Глядя на него, можно было понять, что душу этого человека постиг какой-то страшный удар. |
| There he seemed to sit, with a dim veil of decay and ruin betwixt him and the world, but through which, at flitting intervals, might be caught the same expression so refined, so softly imaginative, which Malbone-venturing a happy touch, with suspended breath-had imparted to the miniature! There had been something so innately characteristic in this look, that all the dusky years, and the burthen of unfit calamity which had fallen upon him, did not suffice utterly to destroy it. | Он сидел здесь словно под покрывалом разрушения, которое отделяло его от мира, но сквозь которое порой проступало то самое выражение, нежное и мечтательное, какое Мальбон отразил в миниатюре и которое ни годы, ни тяжесть обрушившегося на него бедствия не в состоянии были уничтожить. |
| Hepzibah had now poured out a cup of deliciously fragrant coffee, and presented it to her guest. |