Протасов Дмитрий Николаевич. Service of Love// О' Генри

When one loves one's Art no service seems too hard.
That is our premise. This story shall draw a conclusion from it, and show at the same time that the premise is incorrect. That will be a new thing in logic, and a feat in story-telling somewhat older than the great wall of China.

Joe Larrabee came out of the post-oak flats of the Middle West pulsing with a genius for ...

Service [Єs??v?s]	служение
too hard	Слишком тяжёлый
no service seems too hard	Никакое служение не покажется слишком трудоёмким
premise [Єprem?s]	посылка; предположение
conclusion [k?nЄklu??(?)n]	заключение
shall draw a conclusion	Сделает заключение
at the same time	И в тоже самое время
incorrect	неправильный
a new thing in logic	Нечто новое с точки зрения логики
feat [fi:t]	Подвиг;
story-telling	Рассказывание историй
somewhat older than	Немного старше чем
the great wall of China	Великая китайская стена
came out	происходил
post-oak	Древний дуб
flats	равнины
post-oak flats	Равнины, на которых растут древние дубы
Middle West	Средний Запад
pulsing with a genius for	пылая страстью к

... pictorial art. At six he drew a picture of the town pump with a prominent citizen passing it hastily. This effort was framed and hung in the drug store window by the side of the ear of corn with an uneven number of rows. At twenty he left for New York with a flowing necktie and a capital tied up somewhat closer.

Delia Caruthers did things in six octaves so promisingly in a pine-tree village in the South ...

pictorial art [p?kЄt??r??l]	изобразительное искусство
At six	В шесть лет
drew a picture	Нарисовал картину
town pump	водокачка
prominent [Єpr?m?n?nt]	известный, выдающийся
citizen	гражданин
passing	проходящего мимо
hastily ['he?st?l?]	поспешно
effort	зд. картина
was framed and hung	Была вставлена в раму повешана
drug store	аптека
ear of corn	початок кукурузы
uneven	нечетный
number	количество
row	ряд
he left for	Он отправился в
flowing	развивающийся
necktie ['nekta?]	галстук
capital [ЄkФp?t(?)l]	Сумма денег
[Є?kt?v] did things in six octaves	Играла на шести октавах
promisingly	Обещающе
in a pine-tree village	В деревне,которая окружена соснами

... that her relatives chipped in enough in her chip hat for her to go "North" and "finish." They could not see her f--, but that is our story.
Joe and Delia met in an atelier where a number of art and music students had gathered to discuss chiaroscuro, Wagner, music, Rembrandt's works, pictures, Waldteufel, wall paper, Chopin and Oolong.

Joe and Delia became enamoured one of the other, or each of the other, as you please, and in a short time were married--for (see above), when one loves one's Art no service seems too hard.
Mr. and Mrs. Larrabee began housekeeping in a flat. It was a lonesome flat--something like...

chip	Бросали монеты
chip hat	зд. копилка
Enough ... for her to go	Достаточно, для поездки
"finish."	зд. "завершение музыкального образования"
her f--	зд. "её завершение музыкального образования"
but that is our story	Но об этом мы вам и расскажем
atelier ['Фt?l?e?]	фр. ателье, студия (особ. художника)
gather	собираться
Chiaroscuro [k????r?Єsk??r??]	светотень
enamour [?'nФm?]	возбуждать любовь; очаровывать
in a short time	вскоре
(see above)	(смотрите выше),
housekeeping	Ведение хозяйства
lonesome [Єl??ns?m]	вызывающий тоску, унылый, одинокий
something like	Похоже на

... the A sharp way down at the left-hand end of the keyboard. And they were happy; for they had their Art, and they had each other.

And my advice to the rich young man would be--sell all thou hast, and give it to the poor--janitor for the privilege of living in a flat with your Art and your Delia.

Flat-dwellers shall indorse my dictum that theirs is the only true happiness. If a home is happy it cannot fit too close--let the dresser collapse and become a billiard table; let the mantel turn to ...

the A sharp way down at the left-hand end of the keyboard.	амому нижнему ля диез фортепьянной клавиатуры
sell all thou hast	Продай всё, что ты имеешь
give it to the poor	Отдай бедному
janitor [Єd?Фn?t?(r)]	привратник, швейцар
privilege [Єpr?v?l?d?]	привилегия
for the privilege of living	Ради того чтобы жить
dweller [Єdwel?(r)]	Житель, обитатель
indorse [?n'd?:s]	= endorse
endorse [?nЄd??s]	подтвер\|ждать
dictum [Єd?kt?m]	изречение, афоризм
theirs	зд. их счастье
the only true	Единственно истинное
it cannot fit too close	В нём может быть слишком тесно
Dresser [Єdres?(r)]	туалетный столик
collapse [k?ЄlФps]	рушиться, обваливаться
billiard table	Бильярдный стол
mantel ['mФntl]	= mantelpiece = mantelshelf
mantelpiece ['mФntlpi:s]	каминная доска

... a rowing machine, the escritoire to a spare bedchamber, the washstand to an upright piano; let the four walls come together, if they will, so you and your Delia are between. But if home be the other kind, let it be wide and long--enter you at the Golden Gate, hang your hat on Hatteras, your cape on Cape Horn and go out by the Labrador.

Joe was painting in the class of the great Magister--you know his fame. His fees are high; his lessons are light ...

Escritoire [?eskr?Єtw??(r)]	секретер
bedchamber '[bed?t?e?mb?]	спальня (во дворце или большом доме)
washstand ['w??stФnd]	умывальник
upright piano [Є?pra?t]	пианино
let the four walls come together	Пусть все 4 стены сдвинутся др. к другу
if they will	Если они захотят
so you and your Delia are between	А вы и ваша Делия между ними
be the other kind	Совсем другой
Golden Gate	Золотые ворота
hang your hat	Повесить вашу шляпу
Hatteras	мыс Гаттерас
cape [ke?p]	накидка, плащ
Cape Horn	мыс Горн
go out by	Выходить через
Labrador	Лабрадор
was painting in the class	Учился живописи в классе
Magister	Маджистер (фамилия)
you know his fame	И до вас дошла его слава
fees	Плата за уроки
light	лёгкие

-his high-lights have brought him renown. Delia was studying under Rosenstock--you know his repute as a disturber of the piano keys.
They were mighty happy as long as their money lasted. So is every-- but I will not be cynical. Their aims were very clear and defined.
Joe was to become capable very soon of turning out pictures that old gentlemen with thin side-whiskers and thick pocketbooks would sandbag one another in his studio for the privilege of buying. Delia was to become familiar and then contemptuous with Music, ...

highlight ['ha?la?t]	световой эффект (в живописи)
renown [r?Єna?n]	слава; известность
have brought him renown	Прославили его
was studying under	училась музыке у
repute [r?Єpju?t]	репутация
disturber of the piano keys	возмутитель покоя фортепьянных клавиш.
mighty ['ma?t?]	чрезвычайно
their money lasted	У них были деньги
So is every	Так любой будет счастлив
cynical ['s?n?kl]	циничный; бесстыдный
defined [d?'fa?nd]	чётко очерченный
Joe was to	Джо предстояло
turning out pictures	Производить на свет такие картины
side-whiskers	бакенбарды
pocketbook ['p?k?tb?k]	бумажник
sandbag ['sФndbФ?]	оглушать ударом мешка с песком
one another	Друг друга
Delia was to	Дилии предстояло
become familiar	познать все тайны
contemptuous [k?n'temptj??s]	Презрительный; высокомерный

... so that when she saw the orchestra seats and boxes unsold she could have sore throat and lobster in a private dining-room and refuse to go on the stage.

But the best, in my opinion, was the home life in the little flat-- the ardent, voluble chats after the day's study; the cozy dinners and fresh, light breakfasts; the interchange of ambitions--ambitions interwoven each with the other's or else inconsiderable--the mutual help and inspiration; .

so that	До такой степени, что
orchestra seats	места в партере
box	ложа
sore throat [?r??t]	Болезнь горла
lobster	Омар
she could have sore throat and lobster	У неё внезапно могло заболеть горло, которое можно было вылечить только омарами
ardent [Є??d(?)nt]	горячий, пылкий
voluble ['v?lj?bl]	говорливый, многоречивый
chat	беседа
cozy	уютные
interchange of ambitions	обмен честолюбивыми мечтами
interwoven [??nt?'w??vn]	p. p. от interweave
interweave interwove interwoven	вплетать
interwoven with	переплетающиеся с
inconsiderable [??nk?nЄs?d?r?b(?)l]	незначительный
mutual help	взаимопомощь
inspiration [??nsp?Єre??(?)n]	вдохновение

... and--overlook my artlessness--stuffed olives and cheese sandwiches at 11 p.m.

But after a while Art flagged. It sometimes does, even if some switchman doesn't flag it. Everything going out and nothing coming in, as the vulgarians say. Money was lacking to pay Mr. Magister and Herr Rosenstock their prices. When one loves one's Art no service seems too hard. So, Delia said she must give music lessons to keep the chafing dish bubbling.

For two or three days she went out canvassing for pupils. One evening she came home elated.

artlessness [Є??tl?sn?s]	неискусность; простодушие
stuffed	фаршированные
olive [Є?l?v]	маслина
after a while	Спустя некоторое время
Flag [flФg]	ослабевать, уменьшаться
It sometimes does	Так иногда случается
even if	Даже если
switchman ['sw?t?m?n]	стрелочник
going out	уходящее
coming in	приходящее
vulgarian [v?l'?e?r??n]	Выскочка,вульгарный, невоспитанный человек
Money was lacking	Не было денег
chafing dish ['t?e?f??d??]	кастрюля в которой горячая пища подогревается на столе
Bubble [Єb?b(?)l]	кипеть
to keep the chafing dish bubbling	Чтобы свести концы с концами.
canvass ['kФnv?s]	собирать голоса перед выборами; (заказы, подписку, пожертвования)
Elate [?'le?t]	поднимать настроение,

"Joe, dear," she said, gleefully, "I've a pupil. And, oh, the loveliest people! General--General A. B. Pinkney's daughter--on Seventy-first street. Such a splendid house, Joe--you ought to see the front door! Byzantine I think you would call it. And inside!
Oh, Joe, I never saw anything like it before.

"My pupil is his daughter Clementina. I dearly love her already. She's a delicate thing-dresses always in white; and the sweetest, simplest manners! Only eighteen years old. I'm to give three lessons a week; and, just think, Joe! $5 a lesson. I don't mind it a bit; for when I get two or three more pupils I can resume my lessons with Herr Rosenstock. Now, smooth out that wrinkle between your brows, dear, and let's have a nice supper."

"That's all right for you, Dele," said Joe,

Gleeful [Єgli?f?l]	ликующий
I've a pupil.	Я нашла ученика
loveliest	Самые милые
you ought to see the front door!	Поглядел бы ты на их подъезд!
Byzantine [b?'zФnta?n]	византийский
dearly [Єd??l?]	нежно
delicate [Єdel?k?t]	изящный
a delicate thing	Такая изящная
in white;	В белое
sweet	зд. неиспорченный
for when	Так как когда
resume [r?Єzju?m]	возобновлять
smooth out	выпрями
wrinkle	морщина
brow [bra?]	бровь
That's all right for you,	С тобой всё в порядке

attacking a can of peas with a carving knife and a hatchet, "but how about me? Do you think I'm going to let you hustle for wages while I philander in the regions of high art? Not by the bones of Benvenuto Cellini! I guess I can sell papers or lay cobblestones, and bring in a dollar or two."
Delia came and hung about his neck.
"Joe, dear, you are silly. You must keep on at your studies. It is not as if I had quit my music and gone to work at something else.
While I teach I learn. I am always with my music. And we can live as happily as millionaires on $15 a week.

can of peas	Банка гороха
carving knife	Консервный нож
hatchet ['hФt??t]	большой нож
hustle [Єh?s(?)l]	торопиться, суетиться
philander [f?'lФnd?]	флиртовать; волочиться
regions of high art	сферы высокого искусства
by the bones	клянусь останками
cobblestone ['k?blst??n]	= cobble
[Єk?b(?)l] cobble (also ~-stone(s))	булыжник
lay cobblestones	мостить улицы
bring in	приносить в дом
hung about	повисла
keep on at	продолжать
It is not as if I	Это совсем не так, если бы я
quit my music	Бросить уроки музыки
go to work at something else.	заняться чем-то посторонним
While I teach I learn.	Когда я преподаю, я учусь
millionaire ?m?lj?Єne?(r)]	миллионер

You mustn't think of leaving Mr. Magister."
"All right," said Joe, reaching for the blue scalloped vegetable dish. "But I hate for you to be giving lessons. It isn't Art. But you're a trump and a dear to do it."
"When one loves one's Art no service seems too hard," said Delia.
"Magister praised the sky in that sketch I made in the park," said Joe. "And Tinkle gave me permission to hang two of them in his window. I may sell one if the right kind of a moneyed idiot sees them."
"I'm sure you will," said Delia, sweetly. "And now let's be thankful for Gen. Pinkney and this veal roast."
During all of the next week the Larrabees had an early breakfast. Joe was enthusiastic about some morning-effect sketches he was doing in Central Park, ...

You mustn't think	не смей даже думать
reaching for	доставая
Scallop [Єsk?l?p]	отделать фестонами
Vegetable dish	салатник
scalloped vegetable dish	салатник в форме раковины
I hate	Мне ненавистно
trump [tr?mp]	славный малый, козырь
sketch	этюд
to hang	выставить
window.	витрина
the right kind	Именно тот, кто нужен
moneyed idiot	идиот с деньгами
Gen	Сокр. Генерал
veal	телятина
roast [r??st]	жаркое
had an early breakfast	Завтракали рано
enthusiastic [?n??ju?z?ЄФst?k]	восторженный; полный энтузиазма

and Delia packed him off breakfasted, coddled, praised and kissed at 7 o'clock. Art is an engaging mistress. It was most times 7 o'clock when he returned in the evening.

At the end of the week Delia, sweetly proud but languid, triumphantly tossed three five-dollar bills on the 8x10 (inches) centre table of the 8x10 (feet) flat parlour.

Sometimes," she said, a little wearily, "Clementina tries me. I'm afraid she doesn't practise enough, and I have to tell her the same things so often. And then she always dresses entirely in white, ...

acked him off	Отправляла его "упакованным"
breakfasted	Накормленный завтраком
coddle ['k?dl]	ухаживать (как за больным); изнеживать
coddled	изнеженного
praised	восхвалённого
kissed	зацелованного
engaging mistress	Возлюбленная, требующая слишком многого
It was most times 7 o'clock	Почти всегда было 7 часов
Languid [ЄlФ?gw?d]	томный, вялый
triumphant [tra?Є?mf(?)nt]	Победоносный; торжествующий,
toss	бросать
8x10 (inches)	8x10 дюймов
8x10 (feet)	восемь на десять футов
parlour [Єp??l?(r)]	гостиная
wearily[Єw??r?li]	утомлённо
Clementina tries me	Я от Клементины устаю
entirely [?n'ta??l?]	исключительно

... and that does get monotonous. But Gen. Pinkney is the dearest old man! I wish you could know him, Joe. He comes in sometimes when I am with Clementina at the piano--he is a widower, you know--and stands there pulling his white goatee. 'And how are the semiquavers and the demisemiquavers progressing?' he always asks.

"I wish you could see the wainscoting in that drawing-room, Joe! And those Astrakhan rug portieres. And Clementina has such a funny little cough. I hope she is stronger than she looks. Oh, I really am getting attached to her, ...

that does get monotonous	И это чересчур монотонно
widower [Єw?d???]	вдовец
pulling	теребя
goatee [???'ti:]	козлиная бородка; эспаньолка
semiquaver ['sem?kwe?v?]	муз. шестнадцатая нота
demisemiquavers	муз. 32-ая нота
demi- ['dem?-]	Половинная часть
wainscoting	деревянная панель подоконника
drawing room ['dr?:??ru:m]	гостиная
Astrakhan [?Фstr?ЄkФn]	каракулевый
rug [r?g]	ковёр
PortiХre [?p??t?Єe?(r)]	портьера
rug portieres	Портьеры до пола
a funny little	Немножко забавно
cough	кашлять
stronger	зд. здоровее
I really am getting attached to her	Я к ней сильно привяжусь

... she is so gentle and high bred. Gen. Pinkney's brother was once Minister to Bolivia."
And then Joe, with the air of a Monte Cristo, drew forth a ten, a five, a two and a one--all legal tender notes--and laid them beside Delia's earnings.
"Sold that watercolour of the obelisk to a man from Peoria," he announced overwhelmingly.
"Don't joke with me," said Delia, "not from Peoria!"
"All the way. I wish you could see him, Dele. Fat man with a woollen muffler and a quill toothpick. He saw the sketch in Tinkle's window and thought it was a windmill at first, he was game, though, and bought it anyhow.

high bred	Воспитана по законам высшего общества
Minister	зд. посол
drew forth	вытащил вперёд
legal tender notes	Настоящие милые глазу банкноты
laid them beside	положил их рядом
earnings.	заработки
watercolour	акварель
obelisk [Є?b?l?sk]	обелиск
announce	объявлять
overwhelmingly [???v?'welm??l?]	ошеломляюще
All the way	И всё же это так
I wish you could see him	Жаль, что ты не видала его
woollen	шерстяной
muffler ['m?fl?]	кашне
quill [kw?l]	гусиное перо
quill toothpick	гусиная зубочистка
windmill ['w?ndm?l]	ветряная мельница
game	зд. забавный
bought it anyhow	И как бы то ни было купил его

He ordered another--an oil sketch of the Lackawanna freight depot--to take back with him. Music lessons! Oh, I guess Art is still in it."
"I'm so glad you've kept on," said Delia, heartily. "You're bound to win, dear. Thirty-three dollars! We never had so much to spend before. We'll have oysters to-night."
"And filet mignon with champignons," said Joe. "Were is the olive fork?"
On the next Saturday evening Joe reached home first. He spread his $18 on the parlour table and washed what seemed to be a great deal of dark paint from his hands. Half an hour later Delia arrived, her right hand tied up in a shapeless bundle of wraps and bandages.

He ordered another	Он заказал мне еще одну картину
oil sketch	Картину маслом
freight [fre?t]	фрахт, стоимость перевозки
freight depot	товарная станция
to take back with him	И заберёт её, когда поедет обратно
Art is still in it	Искусство всё ещё в нём = оно не отделимо от искусства
You're bound to win	Тебе суждено стать победителем
oyster [Є??st?]	устрица
filet mignon [?f?le? 'mi:njon]	"филе миньон"
Champignon ['?Фmpi:nj??]	шампиньон
olive fork	вилка для маслин
a great deal of dark pain	Большое количество чёрной краски
shapeless	зд. бесформенный
bundle [Єb?ndl]	узел
wrap [rФp]	Обёртка
bandage	бинт; повязка [ЄbФnd?d?]

"How is this?" asked Joe after the usual greetings. Delia laughed, but not very joyously.

Clementina," she explained, "insisted upon a Welsh rabbit after her lesson. She is such a queer girl. Welsh rabbits at 5 in the afternoon. The General was there. You should have seen him run for the chafing dish, Joe, just as if there wasn't a servant in the house.

I know Clementina isn't in good health; she is so nervous. In serving the rabbit she spilled a great lot of it, boiling hot, over my hand and wrist. It hurt awfully, Joe. And the dear girl was so sorry! But Gen. Pinkney!--Joe, that old man nearly went
distracted. He rushed downstairs and sent somebody--they said the furnace man or somebody in the basement--out to a drug store for some oil

joyously [Єd????sli]	радостно; весёло
Welsh rabbit[?wel?'rФb?t]	гренки с сыром
queer girl	девушка со странностями
just as if there wasn't	Как будто там не было
isn't in good health	Не совсем здорова
Spill [sp?l]	проливать
boiling	кипящий
wrist [r?st]	запястье
over my hand and wrist.	Прямо мне на руку и на запястье
It hurt awfully	Ужасно больно
distract [d?ЄstrФkt]	свести с ума
nearly went distracted	Чуть не сошел с ума
furnace [Єf??n?s]	печь, топка
furnace man	истопник
basement	Подвал
oil	зд. мазь

... and things to bind it up with. It doesn't hurt so much now."

"What's this?" asked Joe, taking the hand tenderly and pulling at some white strands beneath the bandages.

"It's something soft," said Delia, "that had oil on it. Oh, Joe, did
you sell another sketch?" She had seen the money on the table.

"Did I?" said Joe; "just ask the man from Peoria. He got his depot to-day, and he isn't sure but he thinks he wants another parkscape and a view on the Hudson. What time this afternoon did you burn your hand, Dele?"

"Five o'clock, I think," said Dele, plaintively. "The iron--I mean the rabbit came off the fire about that time. You ought to have seen Gen. Pinkney, Joe, when--"

"Sit down here a moment, Dele," said Joe.

things to bind it up with	зд. бинты
pulling at	потягивая за
Strand [strФnd]	прядь, нить
beneath [b?Єni??]	внизу
something soft	Нечто мягкое
that had oil on it	На него накладывают масло
He got his depot to-day	Он забрал сегодня свою товарную станцию
parkscape	пейзаж в парке
a view on	Вид на
plaintive ['ple?nt?v]	жалобный, горестный
The iron--I mean	Утюг... то есть, я хотела сказать
came off the fire	Сняли с плиты
Sit down here a moment	Присядь на минутку

He drew her to the couch, sat beside her and put his arm across her shoulders.

"What have you been doing for the last two weeks, Dele?" he asked.

She braved it for a moment or two with an eye full of love and stubbornness, and murmured a phrase or two vaguely of Gen. Pinkney; but at length down went her head and out came the truth and tears.

"I couldn't get any pupils," she confessed. "And I couldn't bear to have you give up your lessons; and I got a place ironing shirts in that big 24^th street laundry.

He drew her to the couch	Он усадил её на кушетку
put his arm across her shoulders	обнял ее за плечи
She braved it for a moment	На мгновение она оставалась храброй
stubbornness [Єst?b?nn?s]	упрямство; упорство;
murmur ['m?:m?]	роптать, ворчать
vague [ve?g]	неопределённый
but at length	Но спустя некоторое время
down went her head	опустила голову
out came the truth and tears	И правда вырвалась со слезами
I couldn't get any pupils	Я не могла получить учеников
confess	признаваться
I got a place	Я получила работу
iron shirts	гладить рубашки.
laundry [Єl??ndr?]	прачечная

And I think I did very well to make up both General Pinkney and Clementina, don't you, Joe?

And when a girl in the laundry set down a hot iron on my hand this afternoon I was all the way home

making up that story about the Welsh rabbit. You're not angry, are you, Joe? And if I hadn't got the work you mightn't have sold your sketches to that man from Peoria.

"He wasn't from Peoria," said Joe, slowly.

"Well, it doesn't matter where he was from. How clever you are, Joe --and--kiss me, Joe--and what made you ever suspect that I wasn't giving music lessons to Clementina?"

"I didn't," said Joe, "until to-night. And I wouldn't have then, on I sent up this cotton waste ...

In that big Twentyfourth street laundry	В той большой прачечной на 24-ой улице
to make up both	Придумать обоих
set down a hot iron on my hand	Поставила горячий утюг на мою руку
all the way home	На всём пути домой
making up that story	сочиняла эту историю
if I hadn't got the work	если бы я не устроилась на работу
you mightn't have sold	ты бы, может быть, не продал
what made you ever suspect	Что тебя навело на подозрения
I didn't	Я и не догадывался
until to-night	До сегодняшнего вечера
And I wouldn't have	Я бы и сегодня не догадался
cotton waste [?k?tn'we?st]	обтирочный материал

engine-room	котельная
for a girl upstairs	Для какой-то девушки, работающей наверху
who had her hand burned	которой обожгли руку
smoothing-iron	Утюг для разглаживания
firе the engine	Топить котёл
purchaser	покупатель
creations of the same art	Произведения того же самого искусства
but you wouldn't call it either	Но ты бы никогда не смогла это назвать
either painting or music.	ни живописью, ни музыкой.

and oil from the engine-room this afternoon for a girl upstairs who had her hand burned with a smoothing-iron. I've been firing the engine in that laundry for the last two weeks."

"And then you didn't--"

"My purchaser from Peoria," said Joe, "and Gen. Pinkney are both creations of the same art--but you wouldn't call it either painting or music.

And then they both laughed, and Joe began:

"When one loves one's Art no service seems--"

But Delia stopped him with her hand on his lips. "No," she said--

"just 'When one loves.'"

When one loves one's Art no service seems too hard. To a woman nothing seems quite impossible to the powers of the man she worships. О'Генри -- мастер крылатых изречений. "It ain't the roads we take; it's what's inside of us that makes us turn out the way we do.

great wall of China - Великая китайская стена крупнейший памятник архитектуры. Проходит по северному Китаю на протяжении 8851,8 км.

did things in six octaves Литота -- говорить о возвышенном обыденно -- это образное выражение, стилистическая фигура, оборот, в котором содержится художественное преуменьшение величины, силы значения изображаемого предмета или явления.

When one loves one's Art no service seems too hard.

That is our premise. This story shall draw a conclusion from it, and show at the same time that the premise is incorrect. That will be a new thing in logic, and a feat in story-telling somewhat older than the great wall of China.

Joe Larrabee came out of the post-oak flats of the Middle West pulsing with a genius for pictorial art. At six he drew a picture of the town pump with a prominent citizen passing it hastily. This effort was framed and hung in the drug store window by the side of the ear of corn with an uneven number of rows. At twenty he left for New York with a flowing necktie and a capital tied up somewhat closer.

Delia Caruthers did things in six octaves so promisingly in a pine-tree village in the South that her relatives chipped in enough in her chip hat for her to go "North" and "finish." They could not see her f--, but that is our story.

Ри?хард Ва?гнер-- немецкий композитор, создатель цикла опер на сюжет германской мифологии.

Ре?мбрандт Ха?рменс ван Рейн -- нидерландский великий мастер светотени, крупнейший представитель золотого века голландской живописи.

Эмиль Вальдтейфель 1837-1915 (фр. иmile Waldteufel) -- французский композитор, дирижёр и пианист, автор многих известных вальсов.

Фредери?к Франсуа? Шопе?н -- польский композитор и пианист-виртуоз, педагог.

Улун, ооло?нг / бирюзовый чай "Темный дракон") -- также называют "цин ча", что можно перевести как бирюзовый, угольно-черный, сине-зеленый, а также этот иероглиф обозначает "расцвет", состояние, в котором что-то находится на пике жизненных сил. Он между зелёным и красным в китайской классификации. При его обработке ферментацию не доводят до конца: ей подвергается не весь лист, а лишь его края и часть поверхности

Joe and Delia met in an atelier where a number of art and music students had gathered to discuss chiaroscuro, Wagner, music, Rembrandt's works, pictures, Waldteufel, wall paper, Chopin and Oolong.

Joe and Delia became enamoured one of the other, or each of the other, as you please, and in a short time were married--for (see above), when one loves one's Art no service seems too hard.

Mr. and Mrs. Larrabee began housekeeping in a flat. It was a lonesome flat--something like the A sharp way down at the left-hand end of the keyboard. And they were happy; for they had their Art, and they had each other.

sell all thou hast - древний английский -- цитата из Библии

But if home be the other kind - Ну, а уж если нет в вашем доме согласия очень редкая книжная форма Subjunctive Mood

Golden Gate - Мост Золотые Ворота -- висячий мост через пролив Золотые Ворота. Он соединяет город Сан-Франциско на севере полуострова Сан-Франциско и южную часть округа Марин, рядом с пригородом Саусалито.. открыт в 1937 г. Длина - 1970 м, масса -- 894 500 т. От проезжей части до поверхности воды -- 67 м.

Hatteras - Хаттерас (мыс) -- мыс на побережье Северной Каролины, США.

Cape Horn - Кейп-Хорн (англ. Cape Horn) -- не включенная территория в округе Алпайн, штат Калифорния. Свой статус территория получила 19 января 1981 года. Высота центра населенного пункта -- 2 440 м над уровнем моря.

... sell all thou hast, and give it to the poor--janitor for the privilege of living in a flat with your Art and your Delia.

Flat-dwellers shall indorse my dictum that theirs is the only true happiness. If a home is happy it cannot fit too close--let the dresser collapse and become a billiard table; let the mantel turn to a rowing machine, the escritoire to a spare bedchamber, the washstand to an upright piano; let the four walls come together, if they will, so you and your Delia are between. But if home be the other kind, let it be wide and long--enter you at the Golden Gate, hang your hat on Hatteras, your cape on Cape Horn and go out by the Labrador.

High-lights светово?й эффе?кт (в живописи, фотографии); основно?й моме?нт, факт to be in (или to hit) the highlight быть в це?нтре внима?ния

Игра слов

His fees are high; his lessons are light- его гонорары -- высокие; его уроки лёгкие (несерьёзные) Дерет он за свои уроки крепко, а обучает слегка.

Joe was to become. I'm to give three lessons a week (page ... )сильная модальная конструкция "to be to do" - сравните с вопросами Who is to blame? What is to be done? Кто виноват? Что делать?

whisker ['w?sk?] бакенбарды у людей, но усы кошки, тигра , а также разг. небольшое расстояние he came within a ~ of success (coll) он был на пороге успеха

Joe was painting in the class of the great Magister--you know his fame. His fees are high; his lessons are light--his high-lights have brought him renown. Delia was studying under Rosenstock--you know his repute as a disturber of the piano keys.

They were mighty happy as long as their money lasted. So is every-- but I will not be cynical. Their aims were very clear and defined.

Joe was to become capable very soon of turning out pictures that old gentlemen with thin side-whiskers and thick pocketbooks would sandbag one another in his studio for the privilege of buying. Delia was to become familiar and then contemptuous with Music, so that when she saw the orchestra seats and boxes unsold she could have sore throat and lobster in a private dining-room and refuse to go on the stage.

Delia said she must give music lessons. must -очень редко употоребляется в прошедшем времени, чтобы выразить 100% уверенность.

Byzantine - Византийский стиль.

I never saw anything like it before. В совр. Английском -
I have never seen anything like it before

зарплата (служащих) salary; (рабочих) wage(s);

But the best, in my opinion, was the home life in the little flat-- the ardent, voluble chats after the day's study; the cozy dinners and fresh, light breakfasts; the interchange of ambitions--ambitions interwoven each with the other's or else inconsiderable--the mutual help and inspiration; and--overlook my artlessness--stuffed olives and cheese sandwiches at 11 p.m.

But after a while Art flagged. It sometimes does, even if some switchman doesn't flag it. Everything going out and nothing coming in, as the vulgarians say. Money was lacking to pay Mr. Magister and Herr Rosenstock their prices. When one loves one's Art no service seems too hard. So, Delia said she must give music lessons to keep the chafing dish bubbling.

For two or three days she went out canvassing for pupils. One evening she came home elated.

"Joe, dear," she said, gleefully, "I've a pupil. And, oh, the loveliest people! General--General A. B. Pinkney's daughter--on Seventy-first street. Such a splendid house, Joe--you ought to see the front door! Byzantine I think you would call it. And inside!
Oh, Joe, I never saw anything like it before.

Benvenuto Cellini -Бенвенуто Челлини (итал. Benvenuto Cellini; 3 ноября 1500, Флоренция -- 13 февраля 1571, Флоренция) -- выдающийся итальянский скульптор, ювелир, живописец, воин и музыкант эпохи Ренессанса.

I guess I can sell papers or lay cobblestones, and bring in a dollar or two. Все главные мысли в современном английском в предаточных предложениях. I guess I can sell... lay ... bring in

$5 a lesson как хорошо платили за частные уроки, если we can live as happily as millionaires on $15 a week

"My pupil is his daughter Clementina. I dearly love her already. She's a delicate thing-dresses always in white; and the sweetest, simplest manners! Only eighteen years old. I'm to give three lessons a week; and, just think, Joe! $5 a lesson. I don't mind it a bit; for when I get two or three more pupils I can resume my lessons with Herr Rosenstock. Now, smooth out that wrinkle between your brows, dear, and let's have a nice supper."

"That's all right for you, Dele," said Joe, attacking a can of peas with a carving knife and a hatchet, "but how about me? Do you think I'm going to let you hustle for wages while I philander in the regions of high art? Not by the bones of Benvenuto Cellini!

I guess I can sell papers or lay cobblestones, and bring in a dollar or two." Delia came and hung about his neck.

"Joe, dear, you are silly. You must keep on at your studies. It is not as if I had quit my music and gone to work at something else. While I teach I learn. I am always with my music. And we can live as happily as millionaires on $15 a week.

You mustn't think of leaving Mr. Magister. Mustn't -- категорическое запрещение. И думать не смей бросать мистера Маэстри.

Если вы хотите воспринимать английскую литературу, как носители, - всегда переводите фамилии. Tinkle ['t??kl] звон колокольчика или металлических предметов разг. телефонный звонок;

Ро?стбиф (от англ. Roast beef -- дословно "жареная говядина") -- блюдо английской кухни, представляющее собой запечённый в духовом шкафу большой кусок говяжьего мяса. Иногда ростбиф готовят на решётке-гриль или тушат.

You mustn't think of leaving Mr. Magister."
"All right," said Joe, reaching for the blue scalloped vegetable dish. "But I hate for you to be giving lessons. It isn't Art. But you're a trump and a dear to do it."

"When one loves one's Art no service seems too hard," said Delia.
"Magister praised the sky in that sketch I made in the park," said Joe. "And Tinkle gave me permission to hang two of them in his window. I may sell one if the right kind of a moneyed idiot sees them."
"I'm sure you will," said Delia, sweetly. "And now let's be thankful for Gen. Pinkney and this veal roast."
During all of the next week the Larrabees had an early breakfast. Joe was enthusiastic about some morning-effect sketches he was doing in Central Park, and Delia packed him off breakfasted, coddled, praised and kissed at 7 o'clock. Art is an engaging mistress. It was most times 7 o'clock when he returned in the evening. At the end of the week Delia, sweetly proud but languid, triumphantly tossed three five-dollar bills on the 8x10 (inches) centre table of the 8x10 (feet) flat parlour.

that does get monotonous. to do + infinitive эмоциональная конструкция, намного сильнее, чем that gets monotonous very much.

Tries / doesn't practise/ have to tell / dresses /does get monotonous. / comes in/asks. Идеальный пример для изучающих Present Indefinite

Astrakhan - Каракуль -- шкуры ягнят каракульской породы, снятый на 1-3 сутки после рождения.

Astrakhan rug portieres - роскошь, доступная только миллионерам.

"high" во фразе "high bred" не прилагательное, а наречие.

all legal tender notes - самые что ни на есть настоящие банкноты. a five pound bank-note - a five dollar bill.

Sometimes," she said, a little wearily, "Clementina tries me. I'm afraid she doesn't practise enough, and I have to tell her the same things so often. And then she always dresses entirely in white, and that does get monotonous. But Gen. Pinkney is the dearest old man! I wish you could know him, Joe. He comes in sometimes when I am with Clementina at the piano--he is a widower, you know--and stands there pulling his white goatee. 'And how are the semiquavers and the demisemiquavers progressing?' he always asks.

"I wish you could see the wainscoting in that drawing-room, Joe! And those Astrakhan rug portieres. And Clementina has such a funny little cough. I hope she is stronger than she looks. Oh, I really am getting attached to her, she is so gentle and high bred. Gen. Pinkney's brother was once Minister to Bolivia."
And then Joe, with the air of a Monte Cristo, drew forth a ten, a five, a two and a one--all legal tender notes--and laid them beside Delia's earnings.

Пеория (англ. Peoria) -- штат Аризона. В июле 2008 года город попал на 55 место в список ТОП-100 Лучших городов для проживания журнала Money.

quill птичье перо; (гусиное) перо для письма; игла дикобраза

quill-driver ['kw?l?dra?v?] шутл., пренебр. щелкопёр, писец, писака

Lackawanna - Лакауанна - о?круг штат Пенсильвания

filet mignon [?f?le? 'mi:njon] "филе миньон", небольшие кусочки поджаренной нежной говядины. В США считается блюдом только очень состоятельных людей, входит в меню дорогих ресторанов.

"Sold that watercolour of the obelisk to a man from Peoria," he announced overwhelmingly.

"Don't joke with me," said Delia, "not from Peoria!"

"All the way. I wish you could see him, Dele. Fat man with a woollen muffler and a quill toothpick. He saw the sketch in Tinkle's window and thought it was a windmill at first, he was game, though, and bought it anyhow. He ordered another--an oil sketch of the Lackawanna freight depot--to take back with him. Music lessons! Oh, I guess Art is still in it."

"I'm so glad you've kept on," said Delia, heartily. "You're bound to win, dear. Thirty-three dollars! We never had so much to spend before. We'll have oysters to-night."

"And filet mignon with champignons," said Joe. "Were is the olive fork?"

On the next Saturday evening Joe reached home first. He spread his $18 on the parlour table and washed what seemed to be a great deal of dark paint from his hands.

You should have seen him. Тебе следовало его увидеть, но ты его не видел.

Should + Perfect Infinitive - значит, что действие было б желательно сделать, но оно сделано не было.

Should + not + Perfect Infinitive - значит, что действие было б желательно не делать, но оно было сделано.

if there wasn't a servant. сослагательное наклонение. Правильнее (согласно стандарту) if there weren't a servant.

went distracted - went - глагол связка

. Half an hour later Delia arrived, her right hand tied up in a shapeless bundle of wraps and bandages.
"How is this?" asked Joe after the usual greetings. Delia laughed, but not very joyously.

Clementina," she explained, "insisted upon a Welsh rabbit after her lesson. She is such a queer girl. Welsh rabbits at 5 in the
afternoon. The General was there. You should have seen him run for the chafing dish, Joe, just as if there wasn't a servant in the house. I know Clementina isn't in good health; she is so nervous.
In serving the rabbit she spilled a great lot of it, boiling hot, over my hand and wrist. It hurt awfully, Joe. And the dear girl was so sorry! But Gen. Pinkney!--Joe, that old man nearly went distracted. He rushed downstairs and sent somebody--they said the furnace man or somebody in the basement--out to a drug store for some oil and things to bind it up with. It doesn't hurt so much now."

"What's this?" asked Joe, taking the hand tenderly and pulling at some white strands beneath the bandages.
"It's something soft," said Delia, "that had oil on it. Oh, Joe, did you sell another sketch?"

She had seen the money on the table. Сначала она увидела деньги на столе, а потом спросила.

Hudson - Хадсон -- река на востоке США, относящаяся к бассейну Атлантического океана. Длина 492 км.

You ought to have seen Gen - конструкция близкая по смыслу Should + Perfect Infinitive , но с сильным моральным оттенком.

What have you been doing for the last two weeks, Dele?

В данном случае Present Perfect Continuous = Present Perfect. Так как здесь говорящий интересуется и результатом, и к процессом. What have you been done for the last two weeks, Dele?"

I've been firing the engine in that laundry for the last two weeks. (page ...) Я уже две недели как топлю котел в этой прачечной.

She had seen the money on the table.

"Did I?" said Joe; "just ask the man from Peoria. He got his depot to-day, and he isn't sure but he thinks he wants another parkscape and a view on the Hudson. What time this afternoon did you burn your hand, Dele?"
"Five o'clock, I think," said Dele, plaintively. "The iron--I mean the rabbit came off the fire about that time. You ought to have seen Gen. Pinkney, Joe, when--"

"Sit down here a moment, Dele," said Joe. He drew her to the couch, sat beside her and put his arm across her shoulders.

"What have you been doing for the last two weeks, Dele?" he asked.
She braved it for a moment or two with an eye full of love and stubbornness, and murmured a phrase or two vaguely of Gen. Pinkney;

down went her head and out came the truth and tears. Сильная и очень редко употребляемая конструкция. Стандартно: her head went down and the truth and tears came out.

I couldn't bear to have you give up your lessons. И не могла допустить, чтобы ты бросил уроки живописи. Двойная модальная конструкция.

if I hadn't got the work you mightn't have sold your sketches to that man from Peoria

Сослагательное наклонение прошедшее время

... but at length down went her head and out came the truth and tears.

"I couldn't get any pupils," she confessed. "And I couldn't bear to have you give up your lessons; and I got a place ironing shirts in that big Twenty fourth street laundry. And I think I did very well to make up both General Pinkney and Clementina, don't you, Joe? And when a girl in the laundry set down a hot iron on my hand this afternoon I was all the way home making up that story about the Welsh rabbit. You're not angry, are you, Joe? And if I hadn't got the work you mightn't have sold your sketches to that man from Peoria.

"He wasn't from Peoria," said Joe, slowly.

"Well, it doesn't matter where he was from. How clever you are, Joe --and--kiss me, Joe--and what made you ever suspect that I wasn't giving music lessons to Clementina?"

who had her hand burned with a smoothing-iron - которой обожгли руку утюгом

Конструкция to have smth done - значит, что действие сделано не говорящим. Чаще всего употребляется в Present Indefinite / Past Indefinite, но может употребляться во всех временах и в модальных конструкциях, но это уже грамматика другого уровня.

My hair is too long and very untidy. I must have it done pretty soon.

The washing machine had not broken down. I did not have to get it repaired yesterday.

The washing machine had broken down. I got it repaired yesterday.

Have you had your car repaired already? When we were passing by yesterday you were having it repaired.

I would like to get my car serviced tomorrow.

If I had not had my suit cleaned before the interview, I would not have been offered the job.

"I didn't," said Joe, "until to-night. And I wouldn't have then, only I sent up this cotton waste and oil from the engine-room this afternoon for a girl upstairs who had her hand burned with a smoothing-iron. I've been firing the engine in that laundry for the last two weeks."

"And then you didn't--"

"My purchaser from Peoria," said Joe, "and Gen. Pinkney are both creations of the same art--but you wouldn't call it either painting or music.

And then they both laughed, and Joe began:

"When one loves one's Art no service seems--"

But Delia stopped him with her hand on his lips. "No," she said-- "just 'When one loves.'"

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