| First of all he put on his head a wig, with a parting and with two tufts of hair standing up like horns, then he smeared his face thickly with something white, and over the white colour painted his eyebrows, his moustaches, and red on his cheeks. | Прежде всего он надел на голову парик с пробором и с двумя вихрами, похожими на рога, потом густо намазал лицо чем-то белым и сверх белой краски нарисовал еще брови, усы и румяны. |
| His antics did not end with that. | Затеи его этим не кончились. |
| After smearing his face and neck, he began putting himself into an extraordinary and incongruous costume, such as Auntie had never seen before, either in houses or in the street. | Опачкавши лицо и шею, он стал облачаться в какой-то необыкновенный, ни с чем не сообразный костюм, какого Тетка никогда не видала раньше ни в домах, ни на улице. |
| Imagine very full trousers, made of chintz covered with big flowers, such as is used in working-class houses for curtains and covering furniture, trousers which buttoned up just under his armpits. One trouser leg was made of brown chintz, the other of bright yellow. | Представьте вы себе широчайшие панталоны, сшитые из ситца с крупными цветами, какой употребляется в мещанских домах для занавесок и обивки мебели, панталоны, которые застегиваются у самых подмышек; одна панталона сшита из коричневого ситца, другая из светло-желтого. |
| Almost lost in these, he then put on a short chintz jacket, with a big scalloped collar, and a gold star on the back, stockings of different colours, and green slippers. | Утонувши в них, хозяин надел еще ситцевую курточку с большим зубчатым воротником и с золотой звездой на спине, разноцветные чулки и зеленые башмаки... |
| Everything seemed going round before Auntie's eyes and in her soul. | У Тетки запестрило в глазах и в душе. |
| The white-faced, sack-like figure smelt like her master, its voice, too, was the familiar master's voice, but there were moments when Auntie was tortured by doubts, and then she was ready to run away from the parti-coloured figure and to bark. | От белолицей мешковатой фигуры пахло хозяином, голос у нее был тоже знакомый, хозяйский, но бывали минуты, когда Тетку мучили сомнения, и тогда она готова была бежать от пестрой фигуры и лаять. |
| The new place, the fan-shaped light, the smell, the transformation that had taken place in her master--all this aroused in her a vague dread and a foreboding that she would certainly meet with some horror such as the big face with the tail instead of a nose. |