Posted: 16.05.09 14:32. Post subject: Цветок Шиповника

ЦВЕТОК ШИПОВНИКА

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Разве я человек? По-моему, уже нет. Причём давно. Тогда кто я? Что не человек, это точно. Рога, уши коровьи, морда, как у них, копытных. Правда, копыт у меня нет, есть лапы. Так что я точно не бык – у меня ещё и клыки есть. И хвост. Пушистый такой. Как бы я без хвоста на четырёх бегал? Лапы – как у кошки лапы. Почти. Потому что у меня ещё на передних лапах пальцы. Нормальные такие пальцы, почти как человеческие, только с когтями. И когти не убираются. Ненавижу на свою морду смотреть! Образина! Все зеркала, какие нашёл, давным-давно побил. А что? Двинул один раз лапой – и готово! А, чего они говорят – «Вышли бы Вы, мессир, к людям, а не сидели бы тут, как…» Ага, как же! Если меня не подстрелят сразу, так буду у какого-нибудь охотничка в клетке сидеть. Или на цепи. Зверюшка домашняя, говорящая, и фокусы показывать умеет. Вот лежу я, значит, в углу двора возле конуры, хозяин мне миску помоев выносит, за ушком чешет, «дай лапу» говорит. Умница, пушистик! Тьфу! Вот так тут и живу один. Вообще-то не совсем – в моём замке почти все вещи живые. Разговаривают, бегают, советы дают. Ага, им-то что! Они –то хоть симпатичные, не то, что я – не пойми что за страшилище. У Люмьера вон даже с метёлкой любовь. Думают, я не замечаю. А я как на них взгляну, так тошно. Сколько же мне лет? Здесь время неправильное какое-то; да я, вообще-то, давно и считать перестал. Только вот если у розы уже нижние лепесточки привяли – значит, двадцать мне точно есть. И вот иду я как-то по анфиладе. Наступаю на ковёр, чтоб когтями не стучать. Выглядываю на лестницу – и, надо же – у нижних ступенек мужичок какой-то стоит, по сторонам оглядывается. Спрашивает «Тут кто-нибудь есть?» Зачем он явился? На меня, что ли, посмотреть? … Что я, комнатная собачка? От возмущения я уже рычу. Встал на верхней площадке лестницы и затаился. Наблюдаю. Слуги мои дорогие от радости разве что не подпрыгивают. «Пройдёмте, мессир, отдохните, выпейте чаю!» И идёт ведь! Ну, хватит! Я его к себе в гости не звал! В два прыжка пролетаю лестницу, сворачиваю налево, распахиваю дверь. Они его в моё кресло усадили! В моё любимое! И угощают! Ну, вот я сейчас вам всем покажу! Зверею. Ясно чувствую, как шерсть на загривке встаёт дыбом. Рычу. Да, вот нравится мне рычать! - Здесь чужой! Люмьер несёт чепуху, что-то объясняет, но слушать его я не собираюсь. Ага, мужичок увидел меня, перепугался. Да, я страшный! Сейчас снова зарычу – ещё страшнее буду. Рога у меня, клыки из пасти торчат, красный плащ по полу тащится. На картинках черти как раз такие. Подхожу на четырёх, принюхиваюсь, разглядываю «гостя». Никудышный он какой-то – маленький, лысенький. И бормочет: - Я …Я не хотел… А сам на мою морду пялится, глаз не сводит. Ну, чего уставился? Когсворт что-то мямлит, но я его не слушаю. Перепрыгиваю через кресло и вновь рычу. Мужичок пятится, я иду за ним. - Что ты здесь делаешь? - Я заблудился в лесу… И… и вот… -Ты нежеланный гость! А он всё смотрит и смотрит! Нет, это невыносимо! - На что ты уставился? Ты пришёл посмотреть на чудовище? - Я искал ночлег… А сам всё на меня смотрит. Свирепею ещё больше, хватаю мужика за шиворот, ору: - Здесь ты найдёшь ночлег! – и волоку его в башню. Завтра придумаю, что с ним делать. Ходят тут всякие… Шляюсь по парку. Всё заросло, отменные дебри получились, пруд давно никто не чистит. Западная стена обрушилась – не вся, конечно – просто есть там такой хороший проход… Иду в него, как в ворота. В другом месте пришлось бы сигать через забор. Сразу за парком начинается лес. Если идти прямо весь день, можно выйти в горы. Правда, на гребне хребта я был всего раз или два. Возвращаюсь вечером. Заметно похолодало, начал срываться снежок. Вот, опять моя как-бы-зима пришла. Потом будет как-бы-осень, потом – снова зима. К западу от Замка лета нет вообще. У парадного входа вижу осёдланного коня. Мужик безлошадный был – я проверял. Это ещё что за гости? Так и есть: дверь в башню открыта. Взлетаю по винтовой лестнице, на повороте въезжаю плечом в стенку. Не вписался. У двери, за которой мой мужик сидит, кто-то на коленях и с факелом. Переговариваются. Я отшвыриваю этого кого-то одной левой. Факел катится в сторону и гаснет. - Кто здесь? Ой. Оказывается, это девушка. - Кто здесь? – повторяет она. – Кто Вы? Я стою в тени, она меня не видит. И пусть не видит. Она такая… Такая… А я кто? - Хозяин этого замка, - рычу в ответ. Надо же – оказывается, не рычать не получается. - Это мой отец, - говорит она. – Он болен, ему нельзя здесь быть, это опасно! Отпустите его! Стану я его отпускать, как же! Может, я первый раз за столько лет живого человека увидел. - Он не должен был вторгаться сюда! Она всё ещё стоит на коленях, смотрит куда-то вверх – наверное, пытается разглядеть меня. Мужик выглядывает в дырку под дверью, лопочет: - Уходи, Белль, оставь меня! Белль – это что, её имя? -Что я могу сделать? Надо же! Ничего ты не можешь сделать. Давно всё плохо и становится только хуже. «Уходи», - думаю я – «уходи же! Почему ты меня не боишься?» - Но должен же быть какой-то выход… - о чём она думает? Хожу взад-вперёд, стучу по каменному полу когтями, стараюсь держаться в тени. -Стой! Удивляюсь, замираю, поворачиваю голову. Девушка делает шаг вперёд, к свету. Она такая… - Оставь лучше меня… Что? От удивления едва не роняю челюсть. -Тебя? Ты сядешь вместо него? Она что, совсем не понимает, что делает? Мужик кричит: -Белль, нет! Я не позволяю тебе! Ты не знаешь, что делаешь! Вправду за неё волнуется, что ли? - А если я соглашусь, - спрашивает она, - ты его выпустишь? Всё. Это оно. Другого шанса у меня не будет. Отвечаю: -Да. Но ты останешься здесь навсегда! А, вот теперь она меня наконец боится! Говорит нерешительно: - Выйди на свет! Вот этого я не ожидал. Ох, что делать-то? Осторожненько эдак делаю шаг к световому потоку из окна-бойницы. Показываться мне очень не хочется. Потому что… Всё, увидела меня, вскрикнула, лицо руками закрыла. Я сам, когда себя такого в зеркале первый раз увидел, тоже орал. Но это так, частности. А вдруг она сейчас передумает? Говорит: _Я обещаю… И всё же я в это почти не верю. Но если успеть… - Ладно, - тут же соглашаюсь я. Моё слово должно быть первым. Отмыкаю дверь, быстренько хватаю мужика за шиворот и волоку вниз, на выход. Кажется, грубо: он спиной ступеньки считает. Ну и вопит, упирается, конечно. Я бы, может, и получше его нёс, но его надо отправить отсюда быстро, а я на двух плоховато держусь, упасть могу. Поэтому подгребаю передней правой, мужика несу левой. Плечом открываю дверь во двор, шагаю к Тартарини, забрасываю мужика в карету. Командую: - Отвезите его домой! В землю он тут врос, что ли? Точно – копыта уже какими-то корнями заплело. Но ничего, поднимается, топает к мосту и дальше. Тартарини сейчас карета с копытами. На паука немного похож; в общем, зрелище жутковатое. Ничего, бодро так пошёл, справится. Он – не я, так что выберется без помех. А где это «домой» - ну, до ближайшего городка, наверное. Может, сам у пассажира спросит. Иду обратно, наверх поднимаюсь уже медленнее. Слышу, как меня окликает Люмьер. Вот он, в нише стоит. _Чего тебе? - Мессир, я подумал, если девушка проведёт в замке какое-то время, то не могли бы вы предложить ей комнату? Хмыкаю что-то неопределённое и иду дальше. Надо же – сам я об этом как-то не подумал. Девушка стоит в том самом закутке, за дверью, в окно смотрит. Гляжу поверх её головы туда же и вижу, что Тартарини как раз переходит мост. Всхлипывает, оборачивается ко мне, слёзы с лица стирает: - Ты даже не дал мне с ним проститься… А я его больше не увижу. Не увижу никогда… Что, пушистик, доволен? Чувствую себя идиотом. Правда, нехорошо как-то получилось. Рявкаю: - Идём. В твою комнату. Вот, теперь говорить учиться надо. Слова-то я помню, а вот разговариваю позорно. Ладно, как есть, так есть. Она удивляется: - В мою комнату? Но я думала… -Ты хочешь остаться в башне? -Нет. - Тогда пойдём. Я иду впереди, на двух, несу Люмьера в правой передней. Он старается, светит изо всех сил, все три свечи зажёг. На двух я как следует уже давно не ходил, разучился. Вот теперь думаю, как бы не упасть, а то передняя (или верхняя) часть туши перевешивает. Украдкой оглядываюсь, смотрю, кого же это я в Замке поселил. Какая же она маленькая! Люмьер молчать долго не может. Тихонько начинает давать советы: - Скажите ей что-нибудь! Правда, что это я молчу? - Надеюсь, тебе здесь нравится, - оборачиваюсь я к ней. Она кивает, но, похоже, не очень-то искренне. Нашёл тоже, где спрашивать, пушистик! Здесь с потолка полтора десятка химерских каменных морд торчат. Эти ещё пострашнее моей будут. Оглядываюсь, смотрю на неё. Маленькая такая, тоненькая, в платье синем. И глаза – упрямые, карие. И хвостик с синим бантиком из длинных тёмных волос. Красивая… -Здесь теперь твой дом, так что ходи где хочешь. Но не в Западном Крыле! - А что в Западном Крыле? - Запрещено! – коротко говорю я и для убедительности рычу. Она вздрагивает. Идём дальше. В Западном Крыле я всё ободрал и разгромил, но её это не касается. Замок большой, ей места хватит. И вообще – чего? Чего, чего – живу я там, вот чего! Комната у лестницы, между Западным и Восточным, ещё на зимней стороне. Сколь я помню, когда кузина СелестИ гостила, она именно здесь жила. Значит, для Белль подойдёт. - Это твоя комната, - пропускаю её вперёд, сам стою у двери. – Если тебе что-нибудь нужно, мои слуги о тебе позаботятся. Люмьер шепчет мне в ухо: - Обед! Пригласите её на обед! Вообще-то это будет ужин уже, но это я потом думаю, а прежде вытягиваюсь весь и выговариваю как можно торжественней: Ты… Пообедаешь со мной! И это не просьба! Захлопываю дверь и ухожу, довольный собой. Кажется, всё получилось!

 Posted: 24.12.16 18:33. Post subject: Алассиэн пишет: Соб..

Алассиэн пишет:

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Собрав несколько отказов от переводчиков, пошла я на поклон к Гуглу. Есть там программка автоперевода. Всё равно я стилистику не почувствую, если буду переводить сама - объём знаний не тот.

Если ты всё ещё ищешь переводчика, можно, я попробую? С английским у меня неплохо, и некоторую стилистику изобразить могу.

 Posted: 25.12.16 12:12. Post subject: Hello, Aranel! Аласс..

Hello, Aranel! Алассиэн давно тут не была, но я, дерзкая птичка :-) , решила за неё поручиться, что перевод можно делать.
А вот мой собственный перевод моей повести. Наверное, ошибок в нём ещё много.
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A NEW WAY FOR ''BEAUTY AND THE BEAST'' IS ''THE STORY OF SARAH MONFORTE AND DR. ROCKY MCNEIL'' Sarah Monforte lives with her father Alex. She is a small town girl about 23 years old who lives with her father and 34 year old stepmother. Sarah Monforte lived with her father Alex and stepmother Louisa before she married David Crook. He's the 27 year old son of Leonard Crook, a senior policeman of Sarah's hometown. Leonard's mansion is close to Sarah father’s house. David and Sarah are at the masquerade ball at Leonard's house. After the ball, Sarah started to drive a car when she was drunk. David laughs. I'm going to arrest you for drunk driving!” “Where are you driving?”, asked David when they passed by something that looked like a castle from the Middle Ages on the hill. Sarah said, “To the Eclimont Hotel”. David, ''But it's a real castle, not a hotel! We're not in France...'' Too late. Sarah parked the car near the hill and ran into the castle yelling, ''Welcome to the Eclimont Hotel!'' David, ''Sarah, wake up, please! Let's go home! (Sarah sat in an antique chair in a drunken sleep). David begged her, ''Go home, we cannot stay here'. She opened her eyes for one moment and the master of the castle watched her from upper gallery. David raised his eyes when he saw a shadow on Sarah's face. But he didn’t see the master, just heard the sound of his stomping feet. David ran up on the gallery and called. ''Who's there?''. David ran towards the master's voice and they asked one another, "Who's there?''. David and the master of the castle clashed in the dark when David ran towards the master's voice that he mistakenly thought was an echo. David saw the master when he lit the light. He was a dragon-like creature who scratched him with his claws when they stumbled together. Frightened, David ran away with a torn sleeve and a scratched arm. David drove away from the castle and still heard the monster's laugh from behind. Sarah awoke in the morning after David's escape. She came out to the castle's garden. Sarah heard the voice say, '''Good morning, my girl''. Still drunk, she doesn't know that it isn't David's voice and answers, ''Why do you call me girl? I'm Sarah. I'm Sarah Monforte''. The voice says, ''Your name is Sarah? Sarah Monforte?''. Sarah answered. ''Yes, my name is Sarah Monforte. I'm your wife''. The voice said a little bit angrily, ''I don’t have a wife! And I'll never get one!''. Sarah, “You’re acting so weird, David!''. When Sarah called him David he asked, ''Who's David?''. She did not answer at first and the voice repeated, ''Who's David? Is he the same guy who was with you last night?''. Sarah's head got cleaner. She stepped onto the tracks of the car's wheels and discovered that David had run away and left her. She cried, ''He's gone! Gone and left me alone!''. The voice of the master said, ''You're not alone, Sarah. You got me!''. Sarah asked, ''Who are you?''. HIs answer was, ''The master of this castle''. Some time later Sarah heard his voice again, ''Are you hungry my dear? Please come back to my garden. Breakfast is waiting for you. I made it myself.'' When Sarah said, ''Without servants?'', he said, ''What kind of servants could someone like me have?''. She ate her breakfast and thought deeply about his words. When the master invited Sarah to come in, she did it in hope of meeting him inside the castle, but she met no one. She found no one but the chair she sat on was warm as if someone had sat upon it. Sarah went back to the garden, worrying what everything meant. Why did the master call her my dear without knowing her? Why didn't he want to show his face? Who is he at all? Sarah was covered with a blanket by the master from behind. She looked around but she saw his footsteps only. Sarah went into the wood in the same night. She could not sleep knowing she can't see a man, only his footsteps. It’s too mysterious and too frightening. She walked for some time and was scratched by the thorns. Later the powerful piano playing and singing sounds called her back to the garden. Sarah listened the master singing while she held the tree trunk. Sarah got closer to the light in the window; the master played and sang while he was hidden by the large blue curtain with ''I have traveled across the Universe'' written on it. When Sarah did get closer the master stopped to sing and cried: ''I know where you have been. All your back is scratched! Why did you walk in the wood at night? I was too alarmed to sleep.'' Sarah: ''Yes, I couldn't sleep too. I was scared to hear the voice when I didn't see the speaker. Can you come out for me? I must to know who are you - human or ghost''. The master: ''Oh, no, no, no, no, no! I'd do anything for you, but I can't do THAT!'' Sarah: ''Why? Maybe you have wounds or scars? You can come, if it's so - I'll not afraid of your scars.'' The master: ''Worse than all of wounds, I swear!'' Sarah: ''Maybe you're an invisible man?'' The master: ''If I were invisible, I would come out for you. But I’m not and I can't really do that!'' Then Sarah decided to find him by herself, in spite of all chances. The master had seen Sarah himself because he watched her through his magic cooper bowl that shows the wishes when somebody fills it with water. So he knew where she've been. In the morning, he had helped her in her errand without knowing it. It was the same morning after that night talk, when Sarah combed her hair (when she sat on a dry fountain and the master came, behind her back, and put the big pendant on the fountain). Sarah discovers the same pendant that the master put on the fountain almost exactly behind her back. Sarah goes to the wood by his footsteps pretending that she wants to bring the gift back. In fact she just wants to see him. Sarah: ''Thank you very much, but I can't to receive so expensive a gift. It’s cost is several million dollars.'' Sarah sees the master from his wide back as a big long-haired man, dressed in a black cloak. Sarah, stepping over the log: ''Here are you! I've finally found you, and you can take back this jewel.'' The master jumped up from the log but it was too late - Sarah had already met him face to face. A minute after, Sarah screamed and dropped the pendant. The dropped pendant fell down at Sarah's feet. The master of the castle turned out to be a monster, something like a dragon-man with claws on his hands and ''mounds'' on his face. He said: ''Sarah, I told you... Sarah, wait! I'll not do you any harm!'' But Sarah was too scared to listen and she ran away deep into the woods. When she stopped to get some rest, she heard the steps of the master who was following her. She continued to run away in horror and soon she disappeared in the woods. The master tried to run after but he stumbled in the roots and fell down. Then he returned to his castle and watched Sarah in the bowl. He had seen that Sarah climbed on the hidden ruins of some Indian temple. Though Sarah is tired and hungry she's still too scared to return to the monster. Some hours later, she had an halucination that the old crooked tree is the monster and she ran over the ruins and fell down. This thing happened close to sunset. The alarmed master went out to find Sarah by her footsteps. The master found Sarah lying unconscious with both of her legs broken. When she recovered she was in bed. Sarah discovered that she's barely dressed. She tried to get up without knowing that her legs are broken and she fell down in pain. After that, she was raised up on two strong arms and there was a voice that said: ''You're crazy! You've can cause a tumor that way!'' Sarah's in dread to see the master sitting near her bed. ''See, my sweet, - he said. - ''You fell off the high object - you fell out of the ruins of Toltec temple in the woods when you forgot you were high up. You'll start to walk again but it won’t be soon. I came out just to bring some medicine for you, and you...'' ''Go away!'' - cried Sarah. The master: ''Calm down Sarah. I'll do you just good, not bad.'' Sarah: ''Go away, you're the Devil!'' The master: ''You must not to call me ''Devil''. I'm not your enemy, but your true friend. I knew that this would happen if you should see me. That's all my fault...'' He stopped in the middle, and Sarah said: ''Where is my dress?'' The master: ''I tore it.'' Sarah: ''You did what? I have no clothes'' The master: ''Here, I'll give you some dresses of my former servant, Mary.'' Sarah: ''Your servant Mary... You had a servant... Where is she now?'' The master: ''She ran away.'' Sarah: ''Why? When? How?'' The master: ''When it was? Two and a half years ago. We'll talk about it, but not now.'' Day after day passes. The master sings and plays piano to entertain Sarah (he, himself, is hidden behind the curtain, because he invited the aides and he won't let them see him and be afraid of him). Sarah's in amazement that he's so kind and gently with her- she doesn't understand how he can be such an ''angel'' in Devil's clothes''. Her, Sarah and the aides as her ''Indian servants''. They're really dressed like Indian servant-maids, and they give her Indian perfume. Sarah in the levitation (one more manuver by the master to entertain her made with the system called ''Dream Machine''). The days pass, and the master continues to do everything for her and heals her by his wonderful homemade creams by his own recipe. Sarah's less and less frightened of his appearance. She knows that no man was so good to her except of her father and David had never been good. The master's quite sad that he knows her name, while she doesn’t know how to call him. One day, when she'd already started some walking, he asked her: ''Tell me baby, do you remember a young Dr. Rocky McNeil?'' Sarah: ''Rocky McNeil? Yes, I've remember that man. He had broke up all at the court, and afterwards he'd disappeared for two years.'' The master: ''I'll tell you why he became such a thing. If you're not against it...'' Sarah: ''I'm not against.'' The master tells about Rocky's ancestors Scottish Lord and Lady McNeil, who went to the US at the end of 19th century, carrying the castle's parts and how in USA they rebuilt their castle. The ghost of the castle's founder (and the ancestor of all McNeils) went with the castle, and when the castle was rebuilt, he returned to rule it silently. The Lord and Lady's granddaughter, Rocky's mother Margaret McNeil was still thinking herself as a Scottish lady (not as an American) and she called herself ''Lady Margaret'', although she spoiled her reputation by her wedding with Woodrow James, the gangster biker, who left her when he was told she's pregnant. Here's baby Rocky with his Mom Margaret and Nanna Mary. Mary Lance, this stout and jolly widow, was their housekeeper, too. The spoiled story with a biker had not confused Margaret; and when their son was born, she gave him two last names - both her and his outlaw Dad's, too. Because of it, his full name is Rockwell James McNeil. Rocky grew as a very talented boy, and he had became the Doctor of Sciences in the age of 21. Here he's in that day, with his lecturer Professor Lawrence Greenwood. Rocky had a musical talent, too, and played in all the musical instruments. Here he playing piano for his Mom's friend's' daughters; they've all been his fans and loved him, though he'd never gave them any hope. He was the gifted illusionist, too, and had a big state of focus-aides. His former Nanna Mary Lance became the assistant of the young scientist. She did not provide that her life as an assistant of ''master Rocky'' will become a nightmare. This thing slowly had started, when Rocky, after his 23rd Birthday, was awaken in the middle of the night by his mother's crying, and he had seen that she's attacken by the big gangster, - his biological father Woodrow James. The frightened Rocky stood still of hororor some minutes, then he recovered himself and he had sneaked out of the castle. But it was too late - there was his mother's body, she was killed by Woodrow who had stabbed her in her neck. Rocky screamed: ''No, mama, NO!'' The bloody Woodrow tried to kill his son Rocky, too, when he heared his voice; but the villain was killed himself, stricken by the first lightning when the storm begun in the same night.'' (Sarah was very scared in that place of the master's story). The master had continued his story: ''Rocky wept on his mother's body out loud; to his mother's body, he had swore through the tears that he'll never marry himself, because of this terrible result of his mama's marriage. Some hours later, the stressed boy finally lost his mind. Yeah, the mourn and the dread both drove Rocky insane; he had two attacks of madness with a three-day-crisis between them; and in the first attack he started eating all day long (while he was thinking himself ought to die of hunger if he'll stop eat). Here, Rocky is slowly getting fat, while he eating buckets of chicken and over-filled bowls of pies. With all that, he couldn't help feeling like his stomach is empty. He got hunger-attacks even in the night-hours; then, he was waking up and going to eat cakes and pies from Mary's pantries. In one night, Mary was awaken by the knocking door's noise and she had discovered Rocky eating slice aftter slice of pie - in the middle of the night! Ans so, she said: ''What's the matter with you, master Rocky? In the middle of the night!'' Rocky: ''If you're really care for me, you'll not let me die of hunger. I've see in the mirror as I do, as my bones are sticking out.'' Mary: ''Who? Are you? In fact, you've put on plenty of weight!'' Rocky: ''Oh, Mary, are you eat less? And you're... don't read me morals, I'm not a child anymore!'' Mary: ''I'm sorry if did I read you morals, but you can catch dyspepsia if you'll go on that way!'' Rocky: ''Shudder, if you've won't to be fired of this job! The pies are for owners, not for servants!'' Frightened Mary wasn't ready for treat like this from her young master's side; and she'd gone as quickly as she could. After Mary's exit, Rocky took to himself more pies to over-fill a bowl with them, - and he'd continued his midnight meal... Rocky had actually took twice of his previous size: here, right now, he's nearly 300 lbs. Mary got thin in the same quantity of pounds, 'cause mad Rocky shuffled all the food, - including much of this what she did to herself. She got not only weight-loss, but a joy-loss, too. Yeah, Mary became thin, pale, and always frightened. Her greyish-brown hair became completely grey. Rocky in his second attack of madness started seeing himself as the biggest maker of the biggest robots.'' The master continued his story: ''Mary was really in horror of the giant-fanged-robot's project which was shown by Rocky. But she was frightened not from his projects only, - she was frightened from himself, too, 'cause he treated her badly - worse day by day. One day, Mary was talked to her daughter Christine, who called her by the phone (actually, Mary had four children, but she was really close to her youngest daughter Christine only). Christine, who had no communication with her Mom so many days, was worried about her and asked her how she doing. Mary was a very honest-true character and couldn't lie even to save her life. From her natural honesty, she told her daughter ALL about Rocky and how he treat her bad. Unfortunately, Rocky stood close to that door and overheared Mary, - how she was telling by the phone about him (how he treats her worse day by day). Rocky burst into that room, took the phone straight of Mary's hand, and threw the phone down and broke it to pieces. And he said: ''Damn you, how you've dare to call and complain?'' Mary: ''I swear I did not call, this was my daughter who called me!'' Rocky: ''I don't wanna listen to you, old duck! There'll be no telephone for you to complain!'' Then Mary requested him to let her visit them - her daughter Christine and little granddaughter Polly. Rocky refused. Mary asked for let her writing letters to Christine, but Rocky said he'll burn all these letters in the fireplace. Mary then said she'll quit this her job in his castle, and then Rocky smashed her face. Poor Mary fell down on the sofa, crying: ''For what? Why? Oh my God, for what, why?!'' Next morning, Mary wass ent for buying some food groceries in the store in the closest town. At the store, Mary met her daughter Christine who called her before. After the first minutes of joy, Christine cried: ''Oh, Mom, what is this mean? Did he beat you?'' (she's seen the frozen blood on Mom's face). Mary cried: ''Honey, that was terrible! He smashed the phone and my face when I has answered his refuse to visit you in the quitting request! If you and Peter were take me out of this hell!..'' Christine: ''We'll do, we'll take you!'' Rocky came after these Christine's words, and he sais to Mary: ''Where you're going, old duck? I'll kill you if you don't come back!'' Christine: ''Keep your mouth shut, you're spoiled creature!'' Rocky: ''You're... I'll kill both of you, two!'' Christine: ''I'll charge you, you're monster!'' The old cashier said: ''Don't talk to him, ma'am! Can't you see he's mad?'' Christine: ''Oh, mad! It's getting better, I'll book him a room in a mental hospital!'' Rocky: ''I'll book you by myself, all of you!'' Christine: ''Shudder, bandit!'' The cashier said: ''Ma'am, there's no mean to dispute with mad.'' Finally, Mary was forced to return the castle with her psychic boss. She shook from fear, waiting him to hit her again. But he didn't even take a look at her, assembling mechanisms. Mary didn't stop dream to escape the castle. Next evening, she decided to run away alone and started packing her bags. But Rocky discovered it. He burst into a frenzy of rage, pushed her to the floor, and he dropped and crashed his antic piano. After throwing and breaking the piano, Rocky had started to recover it straightly, demanding from hardly-stand-up Mary to give him tools. When Peter and Christine came to take Mary out, Rocky took them away when he encircled the castle with alternative current lines. Afterwards, he drove his fanged robot straight to their garden. Here's Polly, a mute but very clever Christine's daughter. But she wasn't so clever in that night - she has continued to play her ball while the robot had run straight on her. ''Polly, honey, come to me!'' - the scared Christine cried, when she saw that mechanical monster on wheels, with tusks and claws. But the little gorl didn't know what a danger there is, and she had go on, playing, playing. Christine grabbed Polly and layed herself on the porch-stairs, while she was holding her. Peter: ''Let's call the police.'' Christine: ''What the police can do?'' Peter: ''The robot is operated, and they'll catch his operator. I guess who he is. This'll be for your mama's sake, too!'' The cops had actually came, but they've failed to take the mad ''operator'' by surprise. Rocky has really operated his robot by the special remote control with two antennas. He was hid in some garden, by himself. But he felt the cops coming, climbed on his ''Harley'' and ran away, throwing the remote control down (he had several ones for replacement). Rocky couldn't stop, while being an obsessed man, and he has continued to make monsters (among them, these mechanical ghosts that attacking these two girls). And the last monster that Rocky has made was a giant mechanical vampire bat with laser eyes. One young 12-year old girl was awaken in the middle of the night by the extremely strong light which hit her in the eyes through the window. The girl got up, curious to look what is this thing. She came out as she was, - dressed with her pijama. She was very scared by what she saw - that was a huge vampire bat, whose laser eyes were splashed this light. It flew low, under the tree's branches. The poor girl fainted from terror, with her face down. When her parents found her and layed her back in her bed, she've got ill and could not stop trembling. The parents knew who've made this monster which scared her so, 'cause Rocky McNeil became famous by the things like that. The Dad called the police, while Mom was cared for the daughter. In this time, Rocky McNeil sat on the bench at the edge of someone's private garden, operating the bat robot with a special remote control. Then, the cops had finally took Rocky by surprise and arrested him...'' Sarah was pale and shook in this place although she knew all about McNeil's robots, including the bat robot. The master continued: ''Rocky was really moved to the court. But when the procurator had started : ''Dr. Rockwell James McNeil, aged 26, is accused in...'' - then, the 26-year-old man screamed with a foam on his mouth: ''Do you think I'll sit?! No, you'll sit! On the frying pan! I'll eat your girl with the sauce! I have come out of space, I'll burn y'all with a Heaven's fire! You'll burn, burn, burn! You're all damned - damned with me!'' The frightened Judge let Rocky go home as the insane man (to the girl's mother, he said that the mad people caring isn't his business). Rocky didn't hesitate, - he has climbed on his bike and ran home. ''Open the gate, Mary!'' - he cried. Mary asked, when she did that: ''Did you run away out of the court, master Rocky?'' ''Shudder, or I'll hit you in your neck!'' - Rocky said. Mary did: she's shuddered. She knew that this threat isn't blank, all this period, she'd shook every time when the mad master has came close to her. At the supper, Rocky suddenly said: ''You feeding me bad, Mary.'' Mary: ''Who I feed bad? You are?'' Rocky: ''You said what?'' Mary: ''I said...nothing.'' Rocky: ''I've-heared you-said something-and I'll make you pay for it!'' Mad Rocky jumped out of the table and tried to kill Mary with his fist. Mary (on her knees): ''Oh, please, don't do it!'' (Meanwhile, the ghost of the castle's founder, who went to the US with the castle, could not bear that and flied into a skin of resting bat). Mary went on: ''Remember, Sir, I've nursed you; you were like a son to me!'' Rocky: ''I'm not any son for you, old duck! You has insulted me, and you ought to pay for it!'' When he ended this phrase, he wanted to try to kill her again, without knowing that the Ghost of the castle flies into a sleeping bat's body. Just in time, the enchanted bat woke up, flew close to the mad and bit him in the middle of the fist. The fist turned out to be a bleeding mix, and the man screamed out loud of a huge pain. Mary got up and asked: ''You've wound, Sir - can I help you?'' - though a danger which was so close to her one minute before. Rocky expelled her: ''Go away! Get out of my sight!'' But the pain was unbearable. Rocky tried to care a wound by himself. But the bandage was torn to bits. Then Rocky had a horror-attack and fainted straight on his bed. When he recovered himself, the morning came and the sun was shining brightly. He heared Mary knocking at the door. She said: ''Good morning, Sir. I gave your breakfast.'' At first, after the recovering, Rocky found himself to be normal again: the enchanted bat's bite gave him back his mind throughout the night. He talked to Mary as to his good old friend: ''Morning, Mary! Come on in, don't be afraid!'' Though Rocky returned to be a normal man, Mary was frightened even more than while he was crazy. She dropped all the tray with his breakfast down, and she ran away from the castle without all her things, to no return again. When Rocky saw himself in the mirror, he realized why Mary ran away in panic: his reflection was a dragon-like man (in that place of his story, Sarah realized that the master is Rocky). When Rocky watched his hands closer, he saw his claws are real. He really turned out to be a monster, and he has realized that the bat was a living weapon that the Ghost used for bring him a spell. He has remembered that he acted like a monster in human clothes last night, - for this he was turned into a monster with human soul. He had no more servants, no more phone of his own. Since then, he has went on the bike to call his former focus aides as aides-in-life, - in the night-hours, by the closest public call-box. One night, the night police patrol discovered him, and he was forced to return the castle without calling. But he ordered the aides (all that time) just to bring him the things, and not to stay; he has payed them from the castle's treasure room, when he put coins on the table, before their coming, and watched their work in the magic bowl. Rocky learned to cook, etc. - by himself, because he didn't want to scare people by his sight. He was terribly lonely, when he suddenly saw Sarah. The beautiful, straight young thing with dark chestnut tresses and flirtous velvet brown eyes (that she had opened to him for a moment) seemed to him like an angel. He had stumbled later in the corridor in the guy who were with her, and he laughed about his dread, but soon he has forgot him and returned to think about Sarah. For Rocky, that was love at first sight, and he was dying to say her so much hearty things... In the morning, he did it by the mechanical voice pipes that he used to talk for his aides to not let people see him and be afraid...'' ''It won't be!'' - cried Sarah, hardly believing that her dread-looking, but very kind and gallant master is formerly mad Dr. McNeil. He said: ''Maybe it seems unbelievable, but it's true. Now I gonna have to leave you. Maybe you won't see me after all that I've told you.'' He has gone out of the room, and Sarah was thinking about his story a long time after that. In the morning at their first breakfast together, Sarah said him in the first time: ''Hello, Rocky!'' He asked her how she bears him after all that he told her, - is she angry with him? Sarah answered: ''No, Rocky, no! You've atoned all of your guilts, while you were so kind with me. You have interesting me the way you are now, not the way you've been before. When you were so good to me in the first day... yeah, how did you know what I did when you was hide from me?'' Then, Rocky taught her to use the magic bowl: ''See, my pretty - when you tell the bowl what you wish to see, it will show you in the water just like in the mirror.'' At first, he suggested to see David. Sarah wasn't against it. Sarah saw David, with his father, in the bowl. Leonard said: ''What about Sarah, son?'' David (showing his still scratched arm): ''No, Dad, no! Don't remind me that night, even as a hint!'' Then Sarah saw the marriage certificate that David left here in his escape's night. She threw the document - into the fireplace: ''You're a mean coward, and you're no longer my mate!'' Some after that day, Sarah got healed completely. Now, she've started walking in the garden with Rocky. In one of these walks, when they've sat near the fountain for some rest, Sarah took the ribbon and said: ''Let me braid your hair, Rocky.'' After this walk, Rocky had invited Sarah to his library. She went downstairs, wearing flowers in her hair and hugging the bouquet. When Rocky read the book, Sarah layed flowers into it, instead of markers. But some afterwards, Sarah started to feel longings. She has stood up periodically, while they've rested on the grass, and she has looked far away, standing. One day Rocky asked her: ''What's the matter, honey?''. Sarah said him the truth: she missing her Dad. And, she have asking for visit her father, 'cause there were several months they haven't seen one another. Rocky: ''You'll see your Dad, for sure. But... when you'll return?'' Sarah: ''I don't know. Maybe I'll never can do it.'' Rocky: ''Never... Why, my sweet baby, why?'' Sarah: ''I don't know. Everything can happen. Maybe David shall see me and take me home, and he'll follow my every move...'' Rocky: ''But you've burned your marriage certificate!'' Sarah: ''Yes, I did. But he doesn't know, and if he'd know, he'd said it isn't divorce-by-law. But I'll never forget you.'' Then, saddened Rocky went into the castle and returned with his bowl. Rocky: ''Please take it, Sarah. This is my final gift for you.'' sarah: ''A bowl? But you need it!'' Rocky: ''No, I don't. Please my sweet, take it - it's my request. You'll always can use it to remember me.'' His voice was trembling, and so did his hand when he sent her a bowl and the two coins of gold. He said: ''This one will be a ticket to the road, and the other will be your back -ticket - if you'll be back, nevertheless.'' He ended, almost crying: ''I bless the day I met you!'' Sarah packed the bowl and the coins in the handmade little sack, waved Rocky thanks and goodbye, and went down the hill. She saw the taxi there and waved stop for the driver. The driver was quite surprised for her strange dress and strange little sack, but when she gave him the coin of gold, he got happy to take her to where she wants. Rocky had returned into the castle and stood by the window, - looking after his precious guest, that he loved her so much. He thought that the light in his life has gone. He was alone again - so terrible alone, the only living thing in the big abandoned castle. After Sarah became completely out of sight, Rocky left his place at the window, sat on his chair and burst into a frenzy of crying.

 Posted: 25.12.16 12:12. Post subject: продолжение

 Posted: 25.12.16 13:42. Post subject: Хорошо, скоро у меня..

Хорошо, скоро у меня начнётся свободное время (новогодние праздники), и я рискну.

 Posted: 25.12.16 18:46. Post subject: Эхх, а я вот, к свое..

Эхх, а я вот, к своему стыду, как начала несколько лет назад дневник Линди к роману Алекс Флинн переводить, так он и лежит у меня мертвым грузом до сих пор...

 Posted: 30.12.16 12:12. Post subject: Извините, пожалуйста..

Извините, пожалуйста, но по внешним причинам у мня, судя по всему, будет меньше свободного времени, чем я думала. Я обязательно попробую, когда будет возможность и силы, но это будет всё-таки позже. Ещё раз, извините, что поспешила с обещанием.

 Posted: 31.12.16 11:59. Post subject: Ничего, Aranel, "..

Ничего, Aranel, "Цветок Шиповника" подождёт. Подождёт и проверка моих ошибок.

''Heaven can wait
And a band of angels wrapped up in my heart
Will take me through the lonely night''
Jim Steinman