Kidnapped / Похищенный. Книга для чтения на английском языке

He was smallish in stature, but well-set and as nimble as a goat; his face was of a good open expression, but sunburnt very dark, and heavily freckled and pitted with the small-pox; his eyes were unusually light and had a kind of dancing madness in them, that was both engaging and alarming; and when he took off his great-coat, he laid a pair of fine silver-mounted pistols on the table, and I saw that he was belted with a great sword. His manners, besides, were elegant, and he pledged the captain handsomely. Altogether I thought of him, at the first sight, that here was a man I would rather call my friend than my enemy.

The captain, too, was taking his observations, but rather of the man’s clothes than his person. And to be sure, as soon as he had taken off the great-coat, he showed forth mighty fine for the round-house of a merchant brig: having a hat with feathers, a red waistcoat, breeches of black plush, and a blue coat with silver buttons and handsome silver lace; costly clothes, though somewhat spoiled with the fog and being slept in.

�I’m vexed, sir, about the boat,’ says the captain.

�There are some pretty men gone to the bottom,’ said the stranger, �that I would rather see on the dry land again than half a score of boats.’

�Friends of yours?’ said Hoseason.

�You have none such friends in your country,’ was the reply. �They would have died for me like dogs.’

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Примечания

1

well-kenned = well-known – (шотл.) известный

2

laddie = laddy – (шотл.) мальчуган, паренек

3

Dinnae = do not – (шотл.