Джон Голсуорси - Собственник - английский и русский параллельные тексты

Close to the window, where he could get more than his fair share of fresh air, the other twin, James-the fat and the lean of it, old Jolyon called these brothers-like the bulky Swithin, over six feet in height, but very lean, as though destined from his birth to strike a balance and maintain an average, brooded over the scene with his permanent stoop; his grey eyes had an air of fixed absorption in some secret worry, broken at intervals by a rapid, shifting scrutiny of surrounding facts; his cheeks, thinned by two parallel folds, and a long, clean-shaven upper lip, were framed within Dundreary whiskers. У окна, где можно было захватить побольше свежего воздуха, стоял близнец Суизина, Джемс, -"толстый и тощий", прозвал их старый Джолион. Как и Суизин, Джемс был более шести футов роста, но очень худой, словно ему с самого рождения суждено было искупать своей худобой чрезмерную дородность брата. Джемс стоял, как всегда, сгорбившись, и хмуро поглядывал по сторонам; в его серых глазах застыла какая-то тревожная мысль, от которой он время от времени отвлекался и обводил окружающих быстрым, беглым взглядом; запавшие щеки с двумя параллельными складками и выдававшуюся вперед чисто выбритую длинную верхнюю губу обрамляли густые пушистые бакенбарды. In his hands he turned and turned a piece of china. В руках он вертел фарфоровую вазу.

Not far off, listening to a lady in brown, his only son Soames, pale and well-shaved, dark-haired, rather bald, had poked his chin up sideways, carrying his nose with that aforesaid appearance of 'sniff,' as though despising an egg which he knew he could not digest. Behind him his cousin, the tall George, son of the fifth Forsyte, Roger, had a Quilpish look on his fleshy face, pondering one of his sardonic jests. Something inherent to the occasion had affected them all. Seated in a row close to one another were three ladies-Aunts Ann, Hester (the two Forsyte maids), and Juley (short for Julia), who not in first youth had so far forgotten herself as to marry Septimus Small, a man of poor constitution. She had survived him for many years. With her elder and younger sister she lived now in the house of Timothy, her sixth and youngest brother, on the Bayswater Road. Each of these ladies held fans in their hands, and each with some touch of colour, some emphatic feather or brooch, testified to the solemnity of the opportunity. In the centre of the room, under the chandelier, as became a host, stood the head of the family, old Jolyon himself. Eighty years of age, with his fine, white hair, his dome-like forehead, his little, dark grey eyes, and an immense white moustache, which drooped and spread below the level of his strong jaw, he had a patriarchal look, and in spite of lean cheeks and hollows at his temples, seemed master of perennial youth. He held himself extremely upright, and his shrewd, steady eyes had lost none of their clear shining. Thus he gave an impression of superiority to the doubts and dislikes of smaller men. Having had his own way for innumerable years, he had earned a prescriptive right to it. It would never have occurred to old Jolyon that it was necessary to wear a look of doubt or of defiance. Between him and the four other brothers who were present, James, Swithin, Nicholas, and Roger, there was much difference, much similarity. In turn, each of these four brothers was very different from the other, yet they, too, were alike. Through the varying features and expression of those five faces could be marked a certain steadfastness of chin, underlying surface distinctions, marking a racial stamp, too prehistoric to trace, too remote and permanent to discuss-the very hall-mark and guarantee of the family fortunes. Among the younger generation, in the tall, bull-like George, in pallid strenuous Archibald, in young Nicholas with his sweet and tentative obstinacy, in the grave and foppishly determined Eustace, there was this same stamp-less meaningful perhaps, but unmistakable-a sign of something ineradicable in the family soul. At one time or another during the afternoon, all these faces, so dissimilar and so alike, had worn an expression of distrust, the object of which was undoubtedly the man whose acquaintance they were thus assembled to make. Philip Bosinney

Немного дальше его единственный сын Сомс, бледный, гладко выбритый, с темными редеющими волосами, слушал какую-то даму в коричневом платье, выпятив подбородок, склонив голову набок и скорчив вышеупомянутую презрительную гримасу, словно он фыркал.

was known to be a young man without fortune, but Forsyte girls had become engaged to such before, and had actually married them. It was not altogether for this reason, therefore, that the minds of the Forsytes misgave them. They could not have explained the origin of a misgiving obscured by the mist of family gossip. A story was undoubtedly told that he had paid his duty call to Aunts Ann, Juley, and Hester, in a soft grey hat-a soft grey hat, not even a new one-a dusty thing with a shapeless crown. "So, extraordinary, my dear-so odd," Aunt Hester, passing through the little, dark hall (she was rather short-sighted), had tried to 'shoo' it off a chair, taking it for a strange, disreputable cat-Tommy had such disgraceful friends! She was disturbed when it did not move. Like an artist for ever seeking to discover the significant trifle which embodies the whole character of a scene, or place, or person, so those unconscious artists-the Forsytes had fastened by intuition on this hat; it was their significant trifle, the detail in which was embedded the meaning of the whole matter; for each had asked himself: "Come, now, should I have paid that visit in that hat?" and each had answered "No!" and some, with more imagination than others, had added: "It would never have come into my head!"
George, on hearing the story, grinned.	Джордж, услышав про шляпу, усмехнулся.
The hat had obviously been worn as a practical joke!	Совершенно ясно, что Боснии хотел пошутить!
He himself was a connoisseur of such.	Джордж был любителем таких шуток.
"Very haughty!" he said, "the wild Buccaneer."	- Заносчивый юноша, - сказал он, - настоящий пират!
And this mot, the 'Buccaneer,' was bandied from mouth to mouth, till it became the favourite mode of alluding to Bosinney.	И это mot [1] "пират" передавалось из уст в уста и наконец окончательно закрепилось за Боснии.
Her aunts reproached June afterwards about the hat.	После случая со шляпой все три тетки накинулись на Джун:
"We don't think you ought to let him, dear!" they had said.	- Как ты позволяешь ему такие выходки, милочка!
June had answered in her imperious brisk way, like the little embodiment of will she was:	Джун не замедлила ответить тем властным тоном, каким всегда говорило это крохотное существо -воплощение воли:
"Oh! what does it matter?	- Ну и что ж такого?
Phil never knows what he's got on!"	Филу совершенно безразлично, что носить!
No one had credited an answer so outrageous. A man not to know what he had on?	Никто не поверил столь дикому ответу -Безразлично, что носить?
No, no!	Нет, нет!

What indeed was this young man, who, in becoming engaged to June, old Jolyon's acknowledged heiress, had done so well for himself?	Но что же представлял собой этот молодой человек, который сделал столь удачный шаг, обручившись с Джун - наследницей старого Джолиона?
He was an architect, not in itself a sufficient reason for wearing such a hat.	Он был архитектор, - но ведь это недостаточная причина, чтобы носить такую шляпу.
None of the Forsytes happened to be architects, but one of them knew two architects who would never have worn such a hat upon a call of ceremony in the London season.	Среди Форсайтов архитекторов не было, но кто-то из них знал двух архитекторов, которые никогда бы не явились с официальным визитом в такой шляпе в самый разгар лондонского сезона.
Dangerous-ah, dangerous!	Подозрительно, да, очень подозрительно!..
June, of course, had not seen this, but, though not yet nineteen, she was notorious.	Джун, конечно, ничего особенного в этом не видел, хотя, несмотря на свои неполные девятнадцать лет, она слыла очень придирчивой особой.
Had she not said to Mrs. Soames-who was always so beautifully dressed-that feathers were vulgar?	Разве не она сказала миссис Сомс, которая так прекрасно одевается, что перья вульгарны?
Mrs. Soames had actually given up wearing feathers, so dreadfully downright was dear June!	И миссис Сомс действительно перестала носить перья Вот что могла натворить маленькая Джун своей бесцеремонностью.
These misgivings, this disapproval, and perfectly genuine distrust, did not prevent the Forsytes from gathering to old Jolyon's invitation.	Однако ни опасения, ни скептицизм, ни самое откровенное недоверие не помешали Форсайтам собраться у старого Джолиона.
An 'At Home' at Stanhope Gate was a great rarity; none had been held for twelve years, not indeed, since old Mrs. Jolyon had died.	Приемы на Стэнхоп-Гейт стали большой редкостью; за последние двенадцать лет их не устраивали да, ни одного приема с тех пор, как умерла старая миссис Джолион.
Never had there been so full an assembly, for, mysteriously united in spite of all their differences, they had taken arms against a common peril.	Никогда еще на Стэнхоп-Гейт не было такого полного сборища. Каким-то таинственным образом сплотившись, несмотря на все свое различие, Форсайты вооружились против общей опасности.
Like cattle when a dog comes into the field, they stood head to head and shoulder to shoulder, prepared to run upon and trample the invader to death.	Словно стадо, увидевшее на лугу собаку, они стояли голова в голову, плечо к плечу, готовые кинуться и затоптать чужака насмерть.
They had come, too, no doubt, to get some notion of what sort of presents they would ultimately be expected to give; for though the question of wedding gifts was usually graduated in this way:	Они пришли сюда также и затем, чтобы разузнать, какие надо готовить подарки. Вопрос о свадебных подарках разрешался обычно так:
'What are you givin'?	"Что ты собираешься дарить?
Nicholas is givin' spoons!'-so very much depended on the bridegroom.	Николае дарит ложки". Но ведь от жениха тоже многое зависело.
If he were sleek, well-brushed, prosperous-looking, it was more necessary to give him nice things; he would expect them.	Если жених одет опрятно, даже щеголевато, и по виду состоятельный, ему нужно дарить хорошие вещи, ибо он на это рассчитывает.

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