| At times brawls would spring up between the drunken, trouble-making company and the porters of all the establishments, who had gathered on the run for the relief of a fellow porter- a brawl, during which the window-panes and the decks of grand-pianos were broken, when the legs of the plush chairs were wrenched out for weapons, blood ran over the parquet floor of the drawing room and the steps of the stairs, and people with pierced sides and broken heads fell down into the dirt near the street entrance, to the feral, avid delight of Jennka, who, with burning eyes, with happy laughter, went into the thickest of the melee, slapped herself on the hips, swore and sicked them on, while her mates were squealing from fear and hiding under the beds. | Порою завязывались драки между пьяной скандальной компанией и швейцарами изо всех заведений, сбегавшимися на выручку товарищу швейцару, - драка, во время которой разбивались стекла в окнах и фортепианные деки, когда выламывались, как оружие, ножки у плюшевых стульев, кровь заливала паркет в зале и ступеньки лестницы, и люди с проткнутыми боками и проломленными головами валились в грязь у подъезда, к звериному, жадному восторгу Женьки, которая с горящими глазами, со счастливым смехом лезла в самую гущу свалки, хлопала себя по бедрам, бранилась и науськивала, в то время как ее подруги визжали от страха и прятались под кровати. |
| There were occurrences when there would arrive, with a pack of parasites, some member of a workingmen's association or a cashier, long since far gone in an embezzlement of many thousands through gambling at cards and hideous orgies, and now, in a drunken, senseless delirium, tossing the last money after the other, before suicide or the prisoner's box. |