A few weeks later, somewhat battered, rather famished, and about dead with river-fever, he drove the nose of his canoe into the earth bank by the village of the Toyaats and promptly fainted away. While getting his strength back, in the weeks that followed, he looked upon Tukesan and found her good. Like the father of Shpack, who lived to a ripe old age among the Siberian Deer People, Spike O'Brien might have left his aged bones with the Toyaats. But romance gripped his heart-strings and would not let him stay. As he had journeyed from York Factory to Fort Yukon, so, first among men, might he journey from Fort Yukon to the sea and win the honour of being the first man to make the North-West Passage by land. So he departed down the river, won the honour, and was unannaled and unsung. In after years he ran a sailors' boarding-house in San Francisco, where he became esteemed a most remarkable liar by virtue of the gospel truths he told. But a child was born to Tukesan, who had been childless. And this child was Jees Uck. Her lineage has been traced at length to show that she was neither Indian, nor Eskimo, nor Innuit, nor much of anything else; also to show what waifs of the generations we are, all of us, and the strange meanderings of the seed from which we spring.
What with the vagrant blood in her and the heritage compounded of many races, Jees Uck developed a wonderful young beauty (из-за бродячей крови в ней и наследия, составленного многими расами, Джиз Ак превратилась в удивительную юную красавицу; to develop — развивать/ся/). Bizarre, perhaps, it was, and Oriental enough to puzzle any passing ethnologist (вероятно, это было странно и достаточно по-азиатски, чтобы озадачить любого случайного этнолога). A lithe and slender grace characterized her (ее характеризовало какое-то гибкое и тонкое изящество). Beyond a quickened lilt to the imagination, the contribution of the Celt was in no wise apparent (кроме оживленного стремления к фантазии, вклад кельта был никоим образом не виден; lilt — ритм /песни, стиха/; ритмичное движение, пружинящая походка; in no wise — никоим образом). It might possibly have put the warm blood under her skin (это, возможно, влило теплую кровь под кожу), which made her face less swart and her body fairer (что сделало ее лицо менее смуглым, а ее тело более прекрасным); but that, in turn, might have come from Shpack, the Big Fat (но это в свою очередь пришло, может быть, от Шпака, Большого Жирняка), who inherited the colour of his Slavonic father (который унаследовал цвет от своего славянского отца). And, finally, she had great, blazing black eyes — the half-caste eye, round, full-orbed, and sensuous (и, наконец, у нее были огромные, сияющие черные глаза, глаза человека смешанной расы, круглые, с полными глазными яблоками и чувственные), which marks the collision of the dark races with the light (что отмечает столкновение темных рас со светлыми). Also, the white blood in her, combined with her knowledge that it was in her, made her, in a way, ambitious (к тому же кровь белых в ней в сочетании с ее знаниями, которые были в ней = у нее, сделала ее в некотором отношении честолюбивой; in a way — в некотором отношении; в известном смысле; до известной степени). Otherwise by upbringing and in outlook on life, she was wholly and utterly a Toyaat Indian (во всем остальном, по воспитанию и точке зрения на жизнь, она была полностью и совершенно индианка-тояатка).
What with the vagrant blood in her and the heritage compounded of many races, Jees Uck developed a wonderful young beauty. Bizarre, perhaps, it was, and Oriental enough to puzzle any passing ethnologist. A lithe and slender grace characterized her. Beyond a quickened lilt to the imagination, the contribution of the Celt was in no wise apparent. It might possibly have put the warm blood under her skin, which made her face less swart and her body fairer; but that, in turn, might have come from Shpack, the Big Fat, who inherited the colour of his Slavonic father. And, finally, she had great, blazing black eyes — the half-caste eye, round, full-orbed, and sensuous, which marks the collision of the dark races with the light. Also, the white blood in her, combined with her knowledge that it was in her, made her, in a way, ambitious. Otherwise by upbringing and in outlook on life, she was wholly and utterly a Toyaat Indian.
One winter, when she was a young woman (однажды зимой, когда она была молодой женщиной), Neil Bonner came into her life (в ее жизнь вошел Нил Боннер). But he came into her life (но он вошел в ее жизнь), as he had come into the country, somewhat reluctantly (так же, как он вошел в провинцию, несколько неохотно; reluctant — делающий что-либо с большой неохотой, по принуждению; сопротивляющийся). In fact, it was very much against his will, coming into the country (по сути, приезд в провинцию был во многом вопреки его желанию). Between a father who clipped coupons and cultivated roses (между отцом, который стриг купоны и разводил розы; coupon — доход по ценным бумагам, фиксированный процент), and a mother who loved the social round (и матерью, которая любила светское общество), Neil Bonner had gone rather wild (Нил Боннер вел себя довольно необузданно: «весьма одичал»). He was not vicious (он не был порочным), but a man with meat in his belly and without work in the world has to expend his energy somehow (но мужчине с мясом в животе и без работы в мире приходится каким-то образом тратить свою энергию), and Neil Bonner was such a man (а Нил Боннер был таким мужчиной). And he expended his energy in such a fashion and to such extent (и он так и в такой степени тратил свою энергию) that when the inevitable climax came (что когда настала неизбежная кульминация), his father, Neil Bonner, senior, crawled out of his roses in a panic and looked on his son with a wondering eye (его отец, Нил Боннер-старший, выполз из своих роз в панике и посмотрел на своего сына удивленным взором). Then he hied himself away to a crony of kindred pursuits (потом он поспешил к закадычному другу родственной профессии; to hie — поэт., шутл. спешить; торопиться; crony — близкий, закадычный друг; pursuit — преследование; гонение, погоня; стремление; поиски; ) занятие, дело; профессия), with whom he was wont to confer over coupons and roses (с которым он имел обыкновение обсуждать купоны и розы; wont — имеющий обыкновение /чаще с инф./), and between the two the destiny of young Neil Bonner was made manifest (и между /ними/ двумя была сделана ясной = прояснена судьба молодого Нила Боннера; manifest — очевидный, явный, ясный). He must go away, on probation, to live down his harmless follies (он должен уйти на испытательный срок, чтобы искупить свои безобидные глупости; probation — испытание, стажировка; испытательный срок; to live down — загладить, искупить /своим поведением, образом жизни/; folly — глупость; глупый поступок или идея; безрассудный поступок или поведение) in order that he might live up to their own excellent standard (чтобы он мог быть достойным их собственных превосходных стандартов; to live up to — жить, действовать согласно /принципам и т. п./; быть достойным /чего-либо/).
One winter, when she was a young woman, Neil Bonner came into her life. But he came into her life, as he had come into the country, somewhat reluctantly. In fact, it was very much against his will, coming into the country. Between a father who clipped coupons and cultivated roses, and a mother who loved the social round, Neil Bonner had gone rather wild. He was not vicious, but a man with meat in his belly and without work in the world has to expend his energy somehow, and Neil Bonner was such a man. And he expended his energy in such a fashion and to such extent that when the inevitable climax came, his father, Neil Bonner, senior, crawled out of his roses in a panic and looked on his son with a wondering eye. Then he hied himself away to a crony of kindred pursuits, with whom he was wont to confer over coupons and roses, and between the two the destiny of young Neil Bonner was made manifest. He must go away, on probation, to live down his harmless follies in order that he might live up to their own excellent standard.
This determined upon (когда было порешено на этом), and young Neil a little repentant and a great deal ashamed (а молодой Нил /был/ немного раскаявшимся и очень устыдившимся), the rest was easy (остальное было легко). The cronies were heavy stockholders in the P. C. Company (закадычные друзья были крупными акционерами компании «Пасифик Коуст»
