75 лучших рассказов / 75 Best Short Stories. Коллектив авторов
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state in the Midwest (93 491 sq. km), joined the USA after the American Revolutionary War
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Sandusky – a city on Lake Erie in northern Ohio, founded by the British in 1745
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Lake Erie – one of the five Great Lakes on the USA-Canadian border
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Wapping – an area in eastern London
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the old Globe Theatre – a theatre built in 1599 on the south bank of the Thames and famous for the performance of the greatest Shakespeare’s plays; it remained in use until 1644.
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Covent Garden – 1) London’s wholesale flower, fruit and vegetable market in central London at the time when the story was written; 2) the Royal Opera House which is near the place where the market used to be.
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the Strand – the street in central London linking the West End and the City of London
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Waterloo Station – a main line railway station in London
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hors de combat – disabled due to the wound or injury
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K. C. – King’s Counsel
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Kingsway – a street in central London where companies’ offices are located
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the Aldwych Theatre – a theatre on the corner of Drury Lane in the West End, built in 1905
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Lancashire – a county in northwestern England
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Bakkan – a province and city in Vietnam
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M. P. – Member of Parliament
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Chancery Lane – a street in central London where lawyers’ offices are located
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the Law Courts – the main building of the House of Justice where all important judicial decisions are adopted
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New Oxford Street – a street in central London, the shopping centre of the city
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Lincoln’s Inn Fields – a street in central London
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inamorata = sweetheart, beloved (Italian)
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Knightsbridge – an area in west-central London with expensive jewellers’ and antique shops
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sine qua non – necessary conditions (Latin)
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St. George and his Dragon – a Christian martyr of the 3d century and the patron saint of England; St. George saved a Libyan king’s daughter from the dragon and killed the monster in return for the promise that the people of Libya would be baptized.
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cromlechs – in prehistoric architecture, a cromlech is an acircle of stones enclosed by a broad rampant
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Cornwall – a historic county on the Atlantic coast in southwestern England
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St. Yves – a coastal town in Cornwall
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Wesleyanism – the Wesleyan church, one of the Protestant churches, founded by John Wesley (1703–1791), a clergyman and church reformer; the members of the Wesleyan church promise to live a sinless life.
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Sarah – a biblical figure, in the Old Testament, the wife of Abraham and the mother of Isaac
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Abraham – in the Old Testament, the first of the Hebrew patriarchs, revered in Judaism, Christianity and Islam
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Hagar – in the Old Testament, Sarah’s maid and Abraham’s mistress, the mother of his illegitimate son, Ishmael
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Britannia metal – the alloy composed of tin, antimony and copper, used for making household utensils
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Penzance – a town in Cornwall where the English Channel joins the Atlantic Ocean
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escutcheon – a metal plate placed on a wooden article either to decorate it or to protect the wood
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chartreuse – the liqueur made from more than 130 different plants by the monks of La Grande Chartreuse in France
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Derby – one of the most famous English horse races, an annual event since 1730; the Derby is run on the first Saturday of June.
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cheroot – a thin cigar open at both ends
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claret – famous Bordeaux wine made since Roman times in the region around the city of Bordeaux in France; the word claret is not used in modern French.
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hansom – a low two-wheeled open carriage with the elevated driver’s seat
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West Kensington – a fashionable district in central London
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W. – West
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brougham – a four-wheeled one-horse carriage designed in 1838 by Henry Brougham, a former lord chancellor of England
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kept me on tenter-hooks – idiom kept me in a state of anxiety