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Английский язык с Г. Р. Хаггардом. Копи царя Соломона / H. R. Haggard. King Solomon's MinesHe was, I think, taking a last farewell of all that was left of the poor girl who loved him so well. And, curious as it may seem to you, my reader, sitting at home at ease and reflecting on the vast, indeed, the immeasurable, wealth which we were thus abandoning, I can assure you that if you had passed some twenty-eight hours with next to nothing to eat and drink in that place, you would not have cared to cumber yourself with diamonds while plunging down into the unknown bowels of the earth, in the wild hope of escape from an agonizing death. If it had not, from the habits of a lifetime, become a sort of second nature with me (и, если бы не мои привычки, /сформированные/ за всю мою жизнь, которые стали своего рода моей второй натурой; lifetime — продолжительность жизни, целая жизнь) never to leave anything worth having behind if there was the slightest chance of my being able to carry it away (/и заставляли меня/ никогда не оставлять ничего стоящего, если у меня была хоть малейшая возможность унести это с собой; ...» |
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