Энтони Хоуп - Английский язык с Энтони Хоупом. Узник Зенды / Anthony Hope. The Prisoner Of Zenda

And they covered his face and carried him to Duke Michael’s room, and laid him there; and Antoinette rose from praying by the body of the duke and went to bathe the King’s head and dress his wounds, till a doctor came. And Sapt, seeing I had been there, and having heard Antoinette’s story, sent Fritz to search the moat and then the forest. He dared send no one else. And Fritz found my horse, and feared the worst. Then, as I have told, he found me, guided by the shout with which I had called on Rupert to stop and face me. And I think a man has never been more glad to find his own brother alive than was Fritz to come on me; so that, in love and anxiety for me, he thought nothing of a thing so great as would have been the death of Rupert Hentzau. Yet, had Fritz killed him, I should have grudged it.

The enterprise of the King’s rescue being thus prosperously concluded (операция по спасению короля = спасение короля , завершившееся так успешно; enterprise – смелое предприятие; prosperous – процветающий, преуспевающий; успешный, удачный ), it lay on Colonel Sapt to secure secrecy (налагало на полковника Сэпта /обязанность/ сохранить тайну; to secure – обеспечивать безопасность; охранять ) as to the King ever having been in need of rescue (о /том, что/ король когда-либо нуждался в спасении). Antoinette de Mauban and Johann the keeper (Антуанетту де Мобан и лесничего Иоганна) (who, indeed, was too much hurt to be wagging his tongue just now (который, правда, был слишком сильно ранен, чтобы болтать языком в тот момент: «сейчас»)) were sworn to reveal nothing (заставили поклясться в том, что /они будут/ молчать: «не откроют ничего»; to swear ); and Fritz went forth to find – not the King (а Фриц отправился разыскивать – нет, не короля), but the unnamed friend of the King (а некоего друга короля; unnamed – безымянный; неупомянутый ), who had lain in Zenda and flashed for a moment (который останавливался в Зенде и на мгновение промелькнул; to lie – лежать; остановиться ненадолго, переночевать ) before the dazed eyes of Duke Michael’s servants on the drawbridge (перед глазами изумленных слуг герцога Михаэля на подъемном мосту). The metamorphosis had happened (метаморфоза произошла); and the King, wounded almost to death by the attacks of the gaolers (и король, почти смертельно раненный при нападении тюремщиков) who guarded his friend, had at last overcome them (которые сторожили его друга, в конце концов победил их), and rested now, wounded but alive, in Black Michael’s own room in the Castle (и теперь отдыхал, раненый, но живой, в замке в личной: «собственной» комнате Черного Михаэля).

The enterprise of the King’s rescue being thus prosperously concluded, it lay on Colonel Sapt to secure secrecy as to the King ever having been in need of rescue. Antoinette de Mauban and Johann the keeper (who, indeed, was too much hurt to be wagging his tongue just now) were sworn to reveal nothing; and Fritz went forth to find – not the King, but the unnamed friend of the King, who had lain in Zenda and flashed for a moment before the dazed eyes of Duke Michael’s servants on the drawbridge. The metamorphosis had happened; and the King, wounded almost to death by the attacks of the gaolers who guarded his friend, had at last overcome them, and rested now, wounded but alive, in Black Michael’s own room in the Castle.

There he had been carried, his face covered with a cloak, from the cell (туда его перенесли из темницы, укрыв лицо плащом); and thence orders issued, that if his friend were found (и оттуда исходили приказания, что если его друг найдется), he should be brought directly and privately to the King (он должен быть немедленно и без излишнего шума: «частным образом» доставлен к королю), and that meanwhile messengers should ride at full speed to Tarlenheim (а тем временем посыльные должны во весь опор скакать в Тарленхайм), to tell Marshall Strakencz to assure the princess of the King’s safety (и передать маршалу Штракенцу, чтобы /тот/ заверил принцессу в безопасности короля) and to come himself with all speed to greet the King (и как можно быстрее прибыл сам поприветствовать короля). The princess was enjoined to remain at Tarlenheim (принцессе повелевалось оставаться в Тарленхайме), and there await her cousin’s coming or his further injunctions (и ожидать там прибытия ее кузена или его дальнейших указаний). Thus the King would come to his own again (так король снова вступил в свои /права/), having wrought brave deeds, and escaped, almost by a miracle (совершив отважные деяния и избежав, почти чудом; to wreak ), the treacherous assault of his unnatural brother (вероломного нападения своего жестокого брата; unnatural – неестественный; жестокий, злой ).

This ingenious arrangement of my long-headed old friend prospered in every way (этот хитроумный план моего предусмотрительного друга был хорош: «преуспевал» во всех отношениях; arrangement – приведение в порядок; мероприятие, план; long-headed – длинноголовый; предусмотрительный, проницательный, хитрый; in every way – во всех отношениях; way – путь, дорога; отношение ), save where it encountered a force that often defeats the most cunning schemes (пока /он/ не столкнулся с силой, которая часто расстраивает самые коварные замыслы; to defeat – наносить поражение; расстраивать / планы /). I mean nothing else than the pleasure of a woman (я имею в виду ни что другое, как вмешательство женщины; pleasure – удовольствие; воля, желание ).

There he had been carried, his face covered with a cloak, from the cell; and thence orders issued, that if his friend were found, he should be brought directly and privately to the King, and that meanwhile messengers should ride at full speed to Tarlenheim, to tell Marshall Strakencz to assure the princess of the King’s safety and to come himself with all speed to greet the King. The princess was enjoined to remain at Tarlenheim, and there await her cousin’s coming or his further injunctions. Thus the King would come to his own again, having wrought brave deeds, and escaped, almost by a miracle, the treacherous assault of his unnatural brother.