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| "I will stay away to-day," whispered he to himself. | Что уж! "Сегодня нарочно не пойду, - упрямо, но бессильно подумал он. |
| "It doesn't do to bore people to death by calling on them like that every day. | - Невозможно каждый день надоедать людям, да и... вовсе мне там, кажется, не рады". |
| And, besides, it is plain I am not a man people long for." His resolution to stay at home that evening seemed fixed enough, and yet an inner voice told him that even to-day, as on most other days during the past three months, he would go to the Nikol?ievs'. | В уме это решение казалось твердым, но где-то глубоко и потаенно в душе, почти не проникая в сознание, копошилась уверенность, что он сегодня, как и вчера, как делал это почти ежедневно в последние три месяца, все-таки пойдет к Николаевым. |
| Every time he bade these friends of his good-bye at midnight, he had, with shame and indignation at his own weakness and lack of character, sworn to himself on his honour that he would not pay another call there for two or three weeks. Nay, he had even made up his mind to give up altogether these uncalled-for visits. | Каждый день, уходя от них в двенадцать часов ночи, он, со стыдом и раздражением на собственную бесхарактерность, давал себе честное слово пропустить неделю или две, а то и вовсе перестать ходить к ним. |
| And all the while he was on his way home, whilst he was undressing, ah! even up to the moment he fell asleep, he believed it would be an easy matter for him to keep his resolution. | И пока он шел к себе, пока ложился в постель, пока засыпал, он верил тому, что ему будет легко сдержать свое слово. |
| The night went by, the morning dawned, and the day dragged on slowly and unwillingly, evening came, and once more an irresistible force drew him to this handsome and elegant abode, with its warm, well-lighted, comfortable rooms, where peace, harmony, cheerful and confidential conversation, and, above all, the delightful enchantment of feminine beauty awaited him. | Но проходила ночь, медленно и противно влачился день, наступал вечер, и его опять неудержимо тянуло в этот чистый, светлый дом, в уютные комнаты, к этим спокойным и веселым людям и, главное, к сладостному обаянию женской красоты, ласки и кокетства. |
| Romashov sat on the edge of his bed. | Ромашов сел на кровати. |
| It was already dark, but he could, nevertheless, easily discern the various objects in his room. | Становилось темно, но он еще хорошо видел всю свою комнату. |
| Oh, how he loathed day by day his mean, gloomy dwelling, with its trumpery, tasteless furniture! | О, как надоело ему видеть каждый день все те же убогие немногочисленные предметы его "обстановки". |
| His lamp, with its ugly shade that resembled a night-cap, on the inconvenient, rickety writing-table, looked haughtily down on the nerve-torturing alarm-clock and the dirty, vulgar inkstand that had the shape of a badly modelled pug-dog. Over his head something intended to represent a wall decoration-a piece of felt on which had been embroidered a terrible tiger and a still more terrible Arab riding on horseback, armed with a spear. In one corner a tumbledown bookstand, in the other the fantastic silhouette of a hideous violoncello case. Over the only window the room could boast a curtain of plaited straw rolled up into a tube. Behind the door a clothes-stand concealed by a sheet that had been white in prehistoric times. |