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| As if money could matter to HER! | Что ей деньги сами по себе! |
| No, she had some end in view, and there were circumstances at which I could guess, but which I did not know for certain. | Тут есть цель, тут какие-то обстоятельства, которые я могу угадывать, но которых я до сих пор не знаю. |
| True, the slavery and abasement in which she held me might have given me (such things often do so) the power to question her with abrupt directness (seeing that, inasmuch as I figured in her eyes as a mere slave and nonentity, she could not very well have taken offence at any rude curiosity); but the fact was that, though she let me question her, she never returned me a single answer, and at times did not so much as notice me. | Разумеется, то унижение и рабство, в которых она меня держит, могли бы мне дать (весьма часто дают) возможность грубо и прямо самому ее расспрашивать. Так как я для нее раб и слишком ничтожен в ее глазах, то нечего ей и обижаться грубым моим любопытством. Но дело в том, что она, позволяя мне делать вопросы, на них не отвечает. Иной раз и вовсе их не замечает. |
| That is how matters stood. | Вот как у нас! |
| Next day there was a good deal of talk about a telegram which, four days ago, had been sent to St. Petersburg, but to which there had come no answer. | Вчерашний день у нас много говорилось о телеграмме, пущенной еще четыре дня назад в Петербург и на которую не было ответа. |
| The General was visibly disturbed and moody, for the matter concerned his mother. | Генерал видимо волнуется и задумчив. Дело идет, конечно, о бабушке. |
| The Frenchman, too, was excited, and after dinner the whole party talked long and seriously together-the Frenchman's tone being extraordinarily presumptuous and offhand to everybody. | Волнуется и француз. Вчера, например, после обеда они долго и серьезно разговаривали. Тон француза со всеми нами необыкновенно высокомерный и небрежный. |
| It almost reminded one of the proverb, "Invite a man to your table, and soon he will place his feet upon it." | Тут именно по пословице: посади за стол, и ноги на стол. |
| Even to Polina he was brusque almost to the point of rudeness. Yet still he seemed glad to join us in our walks in the Casino, or in our rides and drives about the town. | Он даже с Полиной небрежен до грубости; впрочем, с удовольствием участвует в общих прогулках в воксале или в кавалькадах и поездках за город. |
| I had long been aware of certain circumstances which bound the General to him; I had long been aware that in Russia they had hatched some scheme together although I did not know whether the plot had come to anything, or whether it was still only in the stage of being talked of. |