Kitabı oku: «The Invisible Man. B2 / Человек-невидимка», sayfa 6

glare [glɛə] – гл. пристально или сердито смотреть (на кого-л.)

to fall into conversation – завязать разговор

rage[reɪʤ] – сущ. ярость, гнев, бешенство; приступ сильного гнева

trudge[trʌʤ] – гл. идти с трудом, устало тащиться

trustful ['trʌstf(ə)l] – прил. доверчивый

Chapter 3
The Thousand and One Bottles

The next day the stranger's luggage arrived through theslush. There was a pair of trunks and a box of books-big, thick books, some of which were just in an incomprehensible handwriting-and a dozen or more boxes and cases, containing glass bottles. The stranger, muffled in his hat, coat and gloves, came out impatiently to meet the cart. “Come along with those boxes,” he said. “I've been waiting long enough.”

Then he turned andrushed swiftly up the steps into the inn. Mr. Hall went straight upstairs, and the stranger's door being ajar, he pushed it open and entered.

The blind was down and the room dim. Hecaught a glimpse of what seemed a handless arm waving towards him. Then he was struck violently in the chest, hurled back, and the door slammed in his face and locked. It was so rapid that it gave him no time to observe.

A couple of minutes after, he joined the little group outside the “Coach and Horses.”

Mr. Hall, staring at them from the steps and listening, found it incredible that he had seen upstairs. Besides, his vocabulary was too limited to express his impressions.

“Come along,” cried an angry voice in the doorway. “The sooner you get those things in the better. Hurry up!”

When the first box was carried into the parlour, the stranger flung himself upon it eagerly, and began to unpack it,scattering the straw on Mrs. Hall's carpet. And from it he began to produce bottles-little bottles containing powders, small and slender bottles with coloured and white fluids, blue bottles labeled Poison, bottles with round bodies and slender necks, large green glass bottles, large white glass bottles-putting them in rows everywhere.

The stranger went to the window andset to work, not bothering in the least about the litter of straw, the fire which had gone out, the box of books outside or the trunks and his other luggage that had gone upstairs.

When Mrs. Hall brought his dinner, he was already soabsorbed in his work that he did not hear her until she had put the tray on the table.

Then he half turned his head and immediately turned it away again. But she saw he had removed his glasses; and it seemed to her that his eye sockets were extraordinarily hollow. He put on his spectacles again, and then turned and faced her.