Английский с Джеромом К. Джеромом. Сюрприз мистера Милберри и другие истории / Jerome К. Jerome. The Surprise of Mr. Milberry - стр. 29
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He leant his head against the bed-post and groaned. “Milly may be here at any moment,” says he, “and I'll have to tell her the baby's been sent by mistake to a Dog Show! I daresn't do it,” he says, “I daresn't do it.”
“Go on to Birmingham,” I says, “and try and find it. You can catch the quarter to six and be back here before eight.”
“Come with me,” he says; “you're a good man, come with me. I ain't fit to go by myself.”
He was right; he'd have got run over outside the door, the state he was in then.
“Well,” I says, “if the guv'nor don't object (ну что ж, если хозяин не возражает…; guv'nor = governor – правитель, управляющий; /разг./ хозяин, начальник) —”
“Oh! he won't, he can't (о, он не будет, он не может),” cries the young fellow, wringing his hands (восклицает молодой человек, ломая руки; fellow – /разг./ человек, парень, малый; to wring – скручивать, выламывать