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| But dear cousin, what an enormous heap of copper! | Но, милая кузина, посмотрите, какая куча у нас медных денег! |
| Positively a copper mountain!" | Настоящая медная гора! |
| "Well done! well done! well done!" quoth Uncle Venner, who had taken occasion to shuffle in and out of the shop several times in the course of the day. | - Прекрасно! Прекрасно! Прекрасно! - повторял дядюшка Веннер, пользуясь любым случаем зайти в лавочку. |
| "Here's a girl that will never end her days at my farm! | - Вот девушка, которой не придется коротать жизнь на моей ферме! |
| Bless my eyes, what a brisk little soul!" | Ах ты, Господи! Что за проворная малютка! |
| "Yes, Phoebe is a nice girl," said Hepzibah, with a scowl of austere approbation. | - Да, Фиби - славная девушка, - изрекала Г епзиба, важно нахмурив брови. |
| "But, Uncle Venner, you have known the family a great many years. Can you tell me whether there ever was a Pyncheon whom she takes after?" | - Но, дядюшка Веннер, вы знаете наш род издавна: как вы думаете, неужели все это передалось ей от Пинчонов? |
| "I don't believe there ever was," answered the venerable man. | - Честно сказать, я не замечал в них ничего подобного, - отвечал почтенный старик. |
| "At any rate, it never was my luck to see her like among them, nor, for that matter, anywhere else. | - Да и нигде, правду сказать. |
| I've seen a great deal of the world, not only in people's kitchens and back-yards, but at the street corners, and on the wharves, and in other places where my business calls me; and I'm free to say, Miss Hepzibah, that I never knew a human creature do her work so much like one of God's angels as this child Phoebe does!" | Я много видел на своем веку людей - не только в кухнях и на задних дворах, но также и на улицах, на пристанях и в других местах, где мне случалось работать, но при всем том должен сказать вам, мисс Гепзиба, что никогда еще не случалось мне видеть, чтобы какое-нибудь создание работало так, как этот ребенок Фиби, -словно сами ангелы Божии ей помогают! |
| Uncle Venner's eulogium, if it appears rather too high-strained for the purpose and occasion, had, nevertheless, a sense in it which was both subtle and true. There was a spiritual quality in Phoebe's activity. | Как ни была преувеличена похвала дядюшки Веннера, но в ней скрывалось верное и тонкое чувство. |
| The life of the long and busy day-spent in occupations that might so easily have taken a squalid and ugly aspect-had been made pleasant, and even lovely, by the spontaneous grace with which these homely duties seemed to bloom out of her character; so that labor, while she dealt with it, had the easy and flexible charm of play. Angels do not toil, but let their good works grow out of them; and so did Phoebe. |