Дракула / Dracula

I wonder masel’ who’d be bothered tellin’ lies to them, even the newspapers, which is full of fool-talk.[100 - Them feet-folks from York and Leeds that be always eatin’ cured herrin’s and drinkin’ tea an’ lookin’ out to buy cheap jet would creed aught. I wonder masel’ who’d be bothered tellin’ lies to them, even the newspapers, which is full of fool-talk. – Эти бездельники из Йорка только и делают что едят копченую селедку, пьют чай да высматривают, где бы купить подешевле черный янтарь, вот они в это верят.

Не знаю, кто сболтнул им такую глупость, этого не встретишь даже в газетах, в которых полным-полно ерунды.]”

I thought he would be a good person to learn interesting things from, so I asked him if he would mind telling me something about the whale fishing in the old days.

He was just settling himself to begin when the clock struck six, whereupon he laboured to get up, and said he needed to go home where his grand-daughter was waiting for him.

He hobbled away, and I could see him hurrying, as well as he could, down the steps. The steps are a great feature on the place. They lead from the town to the church, there are hundreds of them, I do not know how many, and they wind up in a delicate curve. The slope is so gentle that a horse could easily walk up and down them.

I think they must originally have had something to do with the abbey. I shall go home too. Lucy went out, visiting with her mother, and as they were only duty calls, I did not go.

1 August.—I came up here an hour ago with Lucy, and we had a most interesting talk with my old friend and the two others who always come and join him. He is evidently the Sir Oracle of them, and I should think must have been in his time a most dictatorial person.

He will not admit anything, and down faces everybody.

If he can’t out-argue them he bullies them, and then takes their silence for agreement with his views.

The old man told the girls that under the tombs with the names of sailors cut on them there were no bodies because all sailors had actually died in the sea. This story about an empty cemetery upset Lucy and after a while they decided to return home.

The same day. I came up here alone, for I am very sad. There was no letter for me.