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Английский для смелых. Истории о духах и привидениях / Great Ghost Stories - стр. 36
(похожий на мерцание приближающегося фонаря; gleam – слабый свет; проблеск, вспышка). I at first concluded that Jacob had retraced his steps and followed me (я сначала решил /было/, что Джейкоб вернулся по своим следам и шел за мной; to conclude – сделать вывод; to retrace – прослеживать ход развития; проходить обратно по пройденному пути; step – шаг); but even as the conjecture presented itself (но как раз тогда, когда мне в голову пришла эта мысль; conjecture – догадка, предположение; to present – представлять; предъявлять), a second light flashed into sight (замерцав, появился второй огонек; to flash – сверкать, вспыхивать; sight – поле зрения, видимость) – a light evidently parallel with the first (огонек, очевидно, параллельный первому), and approaching at the same rate of motion (и приближающийся в том же темпе; rate – норма; размер; темп; скорость; motion – движение). It needed no second thought to show me that these must be the carriage-lamps of some private vehicle (не надо было дважды думать, чтобы понять: «чтобы показать мне», что это наверняка фонарики какого-то частного экипажа), though it seemed strange that any private vehicle should take a road professedly disused and dangerous (хотя это и казалось странным, что какой-то частный экипаж может оказаться на дороге явно неиспользуемой и опасной; to take – брать; использовать).
Meanwhile the night air seemed to become colder and colder, and though I walked fast I found it impossible to keep myself warm. My feet were like ice. I lost sensation in my hands, and grasped my gun mechanically. I even breathed with difficulty, as though, instead of traversing a quiet north country highway, I were scaling the uppermost heights of some gigantic Alp. This last symptom became presently so distressing, that I was forced to stop for a few minutes, and lean against the stone fence. As I did so, I chanced to look back up the road, and there, to my infinite relief, I saw a distant point of light, like the gleam of an approaching lantern. I at first concluded that Jacob had retraced his steps and followed me; but even as the conjecture presented itself, a second light flashed into sight – a light evidently parallel with the first, and approaching at the same rate of motion. It needed no second thought to show me that these must be the carriage-lamps of some private vehicle, though it seemed strange that any private vehicle should take a road professedly disused and dangerous.
There could be no doubt, however, of the fact
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