"Those were the days, old man (вот это были деньки, старина). Those were the days. I've got to leave you here (я должен покинуть тебя здесь). We’ll see each other (мы увидим друг друга: «каждый другого»)—some time (когда-нибудь). If you are in a jam (если ты окажешься в неприятном положении; jam — сжатие, зажатие, сжимание; защемление; неловкая ситуация, затруднительное положение), you can always get me at Kurtz's (ты всегда можешь найти меня у Куртца)." He moved away and turning (он двинулся прочь и, обернувшись) waved the hand he had had the tact not to offer (помахал рукой, которую он имел такт не предложить): it was like the whole past moving off under a cloud (это было так, словно целое прошлое = все прошлое целиком двигалось прочь под тучей). Martins suddenly called after him (Мартинс внезапно крикнул ему вслед), "Don't trust me, Harry (не доверяй мне, Гарри)," but there was too great a distance now between them (но между ними было уже: «теперь» слишком большое расстояние) for the words to carry (чтобы слова донеслись; to carry — везти, перевозить; доставлять).

government ['gAvnmqnt], recently ['ri:sntlI], suddenly ['sAdnlI]

"Taxed. I earn thirty thousand free. It's the fashion. In these days, old man, nobody thinks in terms of human beings, Governments don't, so why should we? They talk of the people and the proletariat, and I talk of the mugs. It's the same thing. They have their five year plans and so have I."

"You used to be a Catholic."

"Oh, I still believe, old man. In God and Mercy and all that. I'm not hurting anybody's soul by what I do. The dead are happier dead. They don't miss much here, poor devils," he added with that odd touch of genuine pity, as the car reached the platform and the faces of the doomed-to-be-victims, the tired pleasure-hoping Sunday faces, peered in at them. "I could cut you in, you know. It would be useful. I have no one left in the Inner City."

"Except Cooler? And Winkler?"

"You really mustn't turn policeman, old man." They passed out of the car and he put his hand again on Martins' elbow. "That was a joke, I know you won't. Have you heard anything of old Bracer recently?"

"I had a card at Christmas."

"Those were the days, old man. Those were the days. I've got to leave you here. We’ll see each other—some time. If you are in a jam, you can always get me at Kurtz's." He moved away and turning waved the hand he had had the tact not to offer: it was like the whole past moving off under a cloud. Martins suddenly called after him, "Don't trust me, Harry," but there was too great a distance now between them for the words to carry.

15

ANNA WAS AT the theatre (Анна была в театре)," Martins told me, "for the Sunday matinee (для воскресного утреннего представления). I had to see the whole thing through a second time (мне пришлось увидеть эту целую вещь от начала до конца: «сквозь» второй раз). About a middle-aged pianist (про средних лет пианиста) and an infatuated girl (и потерявшую голову девушку; infatuated — влюбленный до безумия; ослепленный, поглупевший от любви, ср.: infatuated with a passion — ослепленный страстью) and an understanding (и понимающую)—a terribly understanding (ужасно понимающую)—wife (жену). Anna acted very badly (Анна играла очень плохо)—she wasn't much of an actress at the best of times (она мало что представляла как актриса /даже/ в лучшие времена). I saw her afterwards in her dressing-room (я навестил ее потом в ее гримерной), but she was badly fussed (но она была ужасно нервной/озабоченной; fuss — суета, беспокойство из-за пустяков; нервное состояние, возбужденное состояние).