Formerly I would jaunt with Kathleen in our grown-up days. The barrow-

Loads do not change much, of apples and rayon vests in common blues and

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Low-taste mauve, of silver plate, trays, and teapots long since changed hands

From the bygone citizens to dealers, from shops to the new flats and

breakable homes, and then over to the bar-row-stalls and the dealers again:

Georgian spoons, rings, ear-rings of turquoise and opal set in the butterfly

pattern of true-lovers' knot, patch-boxes with miniature paintings of ladies

On ivory, snuff-boxes of silver with Scotch pebbles inset.

Sometimes as occasion arises on a Saturday morning (иногда, когда

появляется возможность в субботнее утро), my friend Kathleen (моя подруга

Кэтлин), who is a Catholic (которая католичка), has a Mass said for my soul

(заказывает обедню за упокой моей души), and then I am in attendance as it

were at the church (и тогда я присутствую, так как она происходит в церкви).

But most Saturdays (но большинство суббот) I take my delight (я нахожу

удовольствие) among the solemn crowds (среди серьезных толп) with their

aimless purposes (с их «бесцельными целями»), their eternal life not far away

(их вечная жизнь не так уж далеко), who push past (которая бьется за) the

counters and stalls (прилавками и палатками), who handle (торгуется), buy

(покупает), steal (крадет), touch (касается), desire (желает), and ogle the

merchandise (нежно поглядывает на товары). I hear the tinkling tills (я слышу

звон денежных ящиков), I hear the jangle of loose change (я слышу

дребезжание мелких денег) and tongues (и языков) and children wanting to

hold and have (и детей, жаждущих подержать и заиметь).

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Sometimes as occasion arises on a Saturday morning, my friend Kathleen,

Who is a Catholic, has a Mass said for my soul, and then I am in attendance

As it were at the church. But most Saturdays I take my delight among the

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