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(которое побудило меня продолжить и наконец довести до конца тот ущерб) I had inflicted upon the unoffending brute (который я нанес безобидному зверю).


This spirit of perverseness, I say, came to my final overthrow. It was this unfathomable longing of the soul to vex itself – to offer violence to its own nature – to do wrong for the wrong’s sake only – that urged me to continue and finally to consummate the injury I had inflicted upon the unoffending brute.

One morning, in cool blood (одним утром, хладнокровно: «в прохладной крови»), I slipped a noose about its neck (я затянул петлю вокруг его шеи) and hung it to the limb of a tree (и повесил его на ветку дерева; to hang); – hung it with the tears streaming from my eyes, and with the bitterest remorse at my heart (повесил его со слезами, струившимися из моих глаз, и с горчайшими угрызениями совести в моем сердце); – hung it because I knew that it had loved me (повесил его потому, что я знал, что он /раньше/ любил меня), and because I felt it had given me no reason of offence (и потому, что я чувствовал, что он не давал мне причины для обиды); – hung it because I knew that in so doing I was committing a sin (повесил его потому, что я знал, что, делая так, я совершал грех) – a deadly sin that would so jeopardize my immortal soul (тяжкий: «смертный» грех,[3] который подвергнет мою бессмертную душу такой опасности) as to place it – if such a thing were possible – even beyond the reach of the infinite mercy of the Most Merciful and Most Terrible God (что поместит ее = душу – если такое возможно – за пределы досягаемости бесконечного милосердия Милосерднейшего и Ужаснейшего Бога).


One morning, in cool blood, I slipped a noose about its neck and hung it to the limb of a tree; – hung it with the tears streaming from my eyes, and with the bitterest remorse at my heart; – hung it because I knew that it had loved me, and because I felt it had given me no reason of offence; – hung it because I knew that in so doing I was committing a sin – a deadly sin that would so jeopardize my immortal soul as to place it – if such a thing were possible – even beyond the reach of the infinite mercy of the Most Merciful and Most Terrible God.

On the night of the day on which this cruel deed was done (ночью того дня, в который это жестокое деяние было совершено), I was aroused from sleep by the cry of fire (я был разбужен ото сна криком о пожаре). The curtains of my bed were in flames (полог моей кровати был в огне). The whole house was blazing (весь дом пылал; whole – целый). It was with great difficulty that (лишь с большой трудностью: «это было с большой трудностью, что») my wife, a servant, and myself, made our escape from the conflagration (моя жена, слуга и я сам совершили бегство из пламени). The destruction was complete (разрушение было полным). My entire worldly wealth was swallowed up (мое все мирское богатство было поглощено), and I resigned myself thenceforward to despair (и я предался с тех пор отчаянию).


On the night of the day on which this cruel deed was done, I was aroused from sleep by the cry of fire. The curtains of my bed were in flames. The whole house was blazing. It was with great difficulty that my wife, a servant, and myself, made our escape from the conflagration. The destruction was complete. My entire worldly wealth was swallowed up, and I resigned myself thenceforward to despair.

I am above the weakness of seeking to establish a sequence of cause and effect (я – выше слабости попыток установить последовательность причины и следствия;