as a ripple of music across still water (она, казалось, шла к Джиз Ак, как рябь музыки по неподвижной воде); her sweeping garment itself a song, her body playing rhythmically beneath (ее широкое одеяние само по себе /было/ песней, ее тело ритмично переливалось под ним;
And then came a woman, queenly tall, crowned with a glory of hair that was like a golden sun. She seemed to come toward Jees Uck as a ripple of music across still water; her sweeping garment itself a song, her body playing rhythmically beneath. Jees Uck herself was a man compeller. There were Oche Ish and Imego and Hah Yo and Wy Nooch, to say nothing of Neil Bonner and John Thompson and other white men that had looked upon her and felt her power. But she gazed upon the wide blue eyes and rose-white skin of this woman that advanced to meet her, and she measured her with woman's eyes looking through man's eyes; and as a man compeller she felt herself diminish and grow insignificant before this radiant and flashing creature.
'You wish to see my husband (вы желаете видеть моего мужа)?' the woman asked (спросила женщина); and Jees Uck gasped at the liquid silver of a voice that had never sounded harsh cries at snarling wolf-dogs (и Джиз Ак открыла рот /удивляясь/ мелодичной нежности голоса, который никогда не издавал резких криков на рычащих волкодавов);
'No,' Jees Uck answered slowly and gropingly (нет, — ответила Джиз Ак медленно и на ощупь = подыскивая слова;
'He is my husband (он мой муж),' the woman laughed (засмеялась женщина).
'You wish to see my husband?' the woman asked; and Jees Uck gasped at the liquid silver of a voice that had never sounded harsh cries at snarling wolf-dogs, nor moulded itself to a guttural speech, nor toughened in storm and frost and camp smoke.
'No,' Jees Uck answered slowly and gropingly, in order that she might do justice to her English. 'I come to see Neil Bonner.'
'He is my husband,' the woman laughed.
Then it was true (значит, это была правда)! John Thompson had not lied that bleak February day (Джон Томпсон не соврал в тот промозглый февральский день;
Then it was true! John Thompson had not lied that bleak February day, when she laughed pridefully and shut the door in his face. As once she had thrown Amos Pentley across her knee and ripped her knife into the air, so now she felt impelled to spring upon this woman and bear her back and down, and tear the life out of her fair body. But Jees Uck was thinking quickly and gave no sign, and Kitty Bonner little dreamed how intimately she had for an instant been related with sudden death.
Jees Uck nodded her head that she understood (Джиз Ак кивнула головой, что она поняла), and Kitty Bonner explained that Neil was expected at any moment (а Китти Боннер пояснила, что Нила ждут /и он может появиться/ в любой момент). Then they sat down on ridiculously comfortable chairs (потом они сели на нелепо удобные стулья;
'You knew my husband in the North (вы были знакомы с моим мужем на севере)?' Kitty asked, once (спросила Китти разок).
'Sure (конечно). I wash um clothes (я стирать ему одежду),' Jees Uck had answered (ответила Джиз Ак), her English abruptly beginning to grow atrocious (при этом ее английский вдруг начал становиться отвратительным;
'And this is your boy (а это ваш мальчик)? I have a little girl (у меня маленькая девочка).'
Jees Uck nodded her head that she understood, and Kitty Bonner explained that Neil was expected at any moment. Then they sat down on ridiculously comfortable chairs, and Kitty sought to entertain her strange visitor, and Jees Uck strove to help her.
'You knew my husband in the North?' Kitty asked, once.
'Sure. I wash um clothes,' Jees Uck had answered, her English abruptly beginning to grow atrocious.
'And this is your boy? I have a little girl.'
Kitty caused her daughter to be brought (Китти велела привести дочь: «побудила дочь быть
