Give Russian equivalents of the following words and expressions in the text and use them in the

sentences of your own:

nothing left to do but...; crying beggary; Christmas day; to buy smb. a present; to save every penny;

xpenses; to calculate; something fine and rare; to pull down one's hair; gold watch; to reach below

knee; to stay still

3. Answer the questions:

1) Where did Della and Jim live?

2) How much money could Della save for Jim's Christmas present?

3) What is their weekly income?

4) What did Della do before the mirror?

5) What possessions were of Della 's and Jim's pride?

6) Did Della have long beautiful hair?

4. Agree or disagree with the following statement:

1) Della couldn't save enough money for Jim Christmas present.

2) Della and Jim lived in a furnished flat at 8 dollars a week.

3) Della wanted to buy a nice present for Jim.

4) She didn't know how to get money to buy a present.

5) The James Dillingham Youngs hadn't any valuable possessions at home because they were very poor.

Find and read aloud the sentences describing

1) the flat where Della and Jim lived;

2) two possessions in which they both took mighty pride.

Chapter 2

On went her old brown jacket^l; on went her old brown hat, and with the brilliant sparkle still in her

eyes, hurried out of the door and down the stairs to the street.

Where she stopped the sign read²:

"Mine Sofronie³. Hair goods of all kinds."

Della ran up to the second floor.

"Will you buy my hair?" she asked.

"I buy hair," said Madame. "Take your hat off and let's have a look of it⁴."

Down rippled the brown cascade.

"Twenty dollars," said Madame, lifting the mass with practised hand.

"Give it to me quick," said Della.

Oh, the next two hours passed on rosy wings. She was ransacking the stores for Jim's present. She found it at last. It surely had been made for Jim and no one else. There was no other like it in many of the stores, and she had turned all of them inside out⁵.

It was a platinum chain simple and nice, without any ornamentation, — as all good things should be. It was even worthy of Jim's watch. As soon as she saw it she knew that it must be Jim's. It was like him. Quietness and value — this de­scription applied to both. Twenty-one dollars they tooк from her for it, and she hurried home with 87 cents.

When Della reached home she lighted the gas and went to work repairing the devastation⁶ made by generosity added to love.

Within forty minutes her head was covered with tiny curls that made her look wonderfully like a mischievous schoolboy⁷. She looked at herself the mirror long, carefully, and critically.

"I hope," she said to herself, "Jim won't kill me before he takes a second look at me⁸. But what could I do — oh! what could I do with a dollar and eighty-seven cents?"

Notes

¹ on went her old brown jacket — но вот на ней старая коричневая жакетка (обратный порядок слов здесь исполь ван для усиления смысла)

² the sign read — вывеска гласила

³ Мте Sofronie — Мадам Софрони

⁴ let's have a look of it — посмотрим их

⁵ and she had turned all of them inside out — a она все в них перевернула вверх дном

⁶ went to work repairing the devastation — принялась исправлять разрушения

⁷ that made her look wonderfully like a mischievous schoolboy — которые сделали ее удивительно похожей на озорно го школьника

⁸ before he takes a second look at me — сразу как только взглянет на меня

EXERCISES

1. Find in the text English equivalents of the following words and expressions:

коричневая жакетка; вывеска; платиновая цепочка; без всяких украшений; как только; спокойствие; достоинство; включить газ; щедрость; мелкие локоны

2. Give Russian equivalents of the following words end expressions in the text and use them in the sentences of your own:

to hurry to the street; hair goods of all kinds; to run to the second floor; to take one's hat off; to ransack the stores for smb.'s present; within forty minutes; mischievous schoolboy

3. Answer the questions:

1) Where did Della come to get money?

2) How much money did she get for her hair?

3) What present did Della buy for Jim?

4) How much did she pay for the present?

5) Why did she decide to buy it?

6) What did Della do when she came home?

4. Discuss the following:

1) Della found the way of getting money for Jim's Christmas present — to cut off and sell her

hair. Was it a right decision?

2) Della bought a very expensive present for Jim — a platinum chain. Should people, in your

opinion, always make expensive presents for Christmas Day?

5. Find and read aloud the sentences in the text de­scribing the present which Delia bought for Jim.

Chapter 3

At seven o'clock the coffee was made and the frying-pan was on the stove, hot and ready to cook the chops.

Jim was never late. Della took the chain in her hand and sat at the corner of the table near the door. Then she heard his step on the stairs, and she turned white¹ for just a moment. Then she whispered:

"Please God, make him think I am still pretty."

The door opened and Jim stepped in and closed it. He looked thin and very serious. Poor fellow, he was only twenty-two. He needed a new overcoat and he was without gloves.

Jim stepped inside the door. His eyes were fixed upon Delia, and there was an expression in them that she could not read, and it frightened her. It was not anger, nor surprise, nor disapproval, nor horror, nor any of the sentiments that she had been prepared for. He simply stared at her with that strange expression on his face. Delia jumped off the table and went to him. "Jim, darling," she cried, "don't look at me that way. I had my hair cut off ² and sold it because I couldn't have lived through ³ Christmas without giving you a present. It'll grow out again — you won't mind ⁴, will you? I just had to do it. My hair grows awfully fast. You don't know what a nice — what a beautiful, nice gift I've got for you."

"You've cut off your hair?" asked Jim, as if he had not realized yet the fact.

"Cut it off and sold it," said Delia. "Don't you like me just as well, anyhow? I am me without my hair, am not I?"

Jim looked about the room curiously.

"You say your hair is gone?" he repeated.

"You needn't look for it," said Delia. "It's sold, I tell you — sold and gone, too. Be good to me, for I did it for you. Shall I put the shops on ⁵, Jim?"

Jim seemed quickly to wake out of his trance. He embraced his Delia. Eight dollars a week or a mil­lion a year — what is the difference? A mathemati­cian would give you the wrong answer. The magi brought valuable gifts, but one was not among them.

Notes

¹ she turned white — она побледнела

² 1 had my hair cut off — я остригла волосы

³ 1 couldn't have lived through — я не пережила бы

⁴ you won't mind — ты ведь не сердишься

⁵ Shall I put the chops on? — Жарить котлеты?

EXERCISES

1. Find in the text English equivalents of the follo­wing words and expressions:

никогда не опаздывать; испугаться; упрек; чув­ство; странное выражение лица; продать что-л.; ужасно быстро; жарить котлеты; обнять кого-л.; ценные подарки

2. Give Russian equivalents of the following words and expressions in the text and use them in the sentences of your own:

a frying-pan; a stove; chops; to hear smb.'s step on the stair; to turn white; to need a new overcoat; to stare at smb.; to have one's hair cut off; beautiful nice gift; it's sold; be good to smb.; to wake out of the trance

3. Answer the questions:

1) Why was Delia excited when Jim came home?

2) What frightened Delia when Jim stared at her?

3) Did Delia explain to Jim why she had cut her hair off?

4) What did she say to him?

5) Was Jim angry with Delia?

6) Could he quickly wake out of his trance?

4. Agree or disagree with the following statements:

1) Jim came home at eight o'clock in the evening.

2) When she heard his steps on the stairs she was very calm.

3) Jim wasn't surprised when he looked at Delia.

4) Delia was frightened by a strange expression on his face.

5) Jim embraced Delia when he woke out of his trance.

5. Act a dialogue between Delia and Jim.

Chapter 4

Jim drew a package from his overcoat pocket and threw it upon the table.

"Don't make any mistake, Dell," he said, "about me. I don't think in the way of a head-dress or a haircut that could make me like my girl any less¹. But if you unwrap that package you may see why I behaved so at first."

White fingers tore the string and paper. And then a screem of joy; and then, alas! A quick change to hysterical tears, so that the master of the flat had to use all the comforting powers he could.

For there lay The Combs — the set of combs that Della had admired for long in a Broadway² win­dow. Beautiful combs to wear in her beautiful brown hair. They were expensive combs, she knew, and she had not the least hope of possessing them. And now they were hers, but the hair that they should have adorned³ was gone.

At length she was able to look up with dim eyes and a smile and say: " My hair grows so fast, Jim!" And then Della jumped up like a little cat and cried, "Oh, oh!"

Jim had not yet seen his beautiful present. She held it out to him upon her open hand. "Isn't it charming, Jim? I hunted all over town to find it. You'll have to look at the time a hundred times a day now. Give me your watch. I want to see how it looks on it."

Instead of obeying, Jim lay down on the sofa and put his hands under the back of his head⁴ and smiled.

"Dell," said he, "let's put our Christmas presents away and keep them awhile⁵ They're too nice to use just at present. I sold the watch to get the money to buy your combs. And now it's time to put the chops on."

The magi, as you know, were wise men — won­derfully wise men. They invented the art of giving Christmas presents. And here I have told you the simple story of two foolish children in a flat at eight dollars a week who unwisely sacrificed for each other the greatest treasures of their house. But of all who give gifts these two were the wisest. Of all who give and receive gifts, such as they are the wisest. Everywhere they are wisest. They are the magi.

Notes

¹ I don't think there's anything in the way of a headdress or a haircut that could make me like my little girl any less — никакая прическа и стрижка не могут заставить меня разлюбить мою девочку

² Broadway — Бродвей (главная улица в старой части Нью-Йорка)

³ that they should have adorned — которые они должны были украсить

⁴ under the back of his head — под голову

⁵ and keep them awile — и пусть они полежат немножко

EXERCISES

1. Find in the text English equivalents of the follo­wing words and expressions:

достать сверток из кармана пальто; возглас радости; быстрая перемена; набор гребней; доро­гие гребни; восхитительный; достать деньги, что­бы купить что-л.; мудрец (мудрый человек); придумать (изобрести); жертвовать друг для друга; сокровище

2. Give Russian equivalents of the following words and expressions in the text and use them in the
sentences of your own:

to make mistakes; a hair-dress; a haircut; unwrap a package; to behave; to have not the least hope; to wear smth.; at length; to hunt all over the town to find smth.; to put smth. away; to sell the watch; the art of giving Christmas presents

3. Answer the questions:

1) What did Jim take out from his overcoat pock­et?

2) Could a hair-dress or a haircut make Jim like Delia any less?

3) What present did Jim make to Delia for Christ­mas?

4) Did Delia like Jim's present? Why did she burst into tears?

5) Why didn't Jim give Delia his gold watch?

6) What did he say to Delia about the presents?

4. Discuss the following:

1) Why do you think Jim said: "Let's put our Christmas presents away and keep them for awhile"?

2) Do you agree with the author's words: "But of all who give gifts these two were the wisest?"

5. Retell the story on the part of: a) Delia; b) Jim.

О. HENRY

THE COP AND THE ANTHEM ¹

Chapter 1

On his bench in the park Soapy² moved uneasily, and when Soapy moves uneasily on his bench in the park, you may know that winter is near at hand³.

A yellow leaf fell on Soapy's lap. That was Jack Frost's card⁴. Jack is kind to the regular inhabi­tants of the park, and honestly warns them of his call, so they may make ready⁵.

Soapy understood that the time had come for him to provide himself with the means against the co­ming cold. And therefore he moved uneasily on his bench. Soapy's ambitions were not of the highest. He did not dream of the Mediterranean⁶ voyages, of Southern skies or of the Bay of Naples⁷.

Three months on the Blackwell Island⁸ was what his sole wished. Three months of assured bread and bed and nice company, and police, seemed to Soapy the essence of things desirable⁹.

And now the time has come. On the previous night three Sunday newspapers distributed be­neath his coat, about his feet and his body, could not save him from Cold as he slept on his bench near the fountain in the square. There was an end­less number of Philanthropic institutions in the town where he might get food in accordance with¹⁰ his simple life. But Soapy's proud spirit could not accept it. Isn't it better to be in the prison? To be a guest of the law is not a pleasant thing, but nobody at least meddles with a man's private affairs there.

Soapy, having decided to go to the Island, at once set about accomplishing his desire¹¹. There were

many ways of doing this. The pleasantest was to dine at some expensive restaurant, and then, after refusing to pay, be handed quietly to a policeman. An ordinary magistrate would do the rest.

Notes

¹ The Cop and the Anthem — в русском переводе "Фараон и церковное пение"(Сор соответствует русскому "фараон", презрительной кличке по­лицейских в дореволюционной России).

² Soapy ['soupi] — Соупи

³ near at hand — близко

⁴ Jack Frost's card — визитная карточка деда-мороза

⁵ may make ready — могли подготовиться

⁶ Mediterranean — Средиземное море

⁷Bay of Naples — Неаполитанский за­лив

⁸ Blackwell Island — остров Блэкуэлл (расположен в проливе Ист-Ривер между Нью-Йорком и Бруклином. На этом острове на­ходится большая тюрьма)

⁹ the essence of things desirable — зд. пределом желаний

¹⁰ in accordance with — в соответствии с

¹¹ et about accomplishing his desire — приступил к осуществлению своего желания

EXERCISES

1. Find in the text English equivalents of the follo­wing words and expressions:

постоянные жители; предупреждать кого-л.; обеспечить себя; гарантированный хлеб; спасти
кого-л. от холода; чувство гордости; пообедать в дорогом ресторане; судья

2. Give Russian equivalents of the following words and expressions in the text and use them in the sentences of your own:

to move uneasily; winter is near at hand; there­fore; to dream of smth.; in accordance with; to ac­cept smth.; to meddle with a man's private affairs; to set about accomplishing one's desire; to refuse; be handed to a policeman

3. Answer the questions:

1) Where did Soapy live?

2) What did Soapy understand one day?

3) What did Soapy dream of?

4) Why did he dream of the Blackwell Island?

5) Where could Soapy get food in the city?

6) Were there any ways to be handed to a police­man? What way was the pleasantest for him?

4. Agree or disagree with the following statements:

1) Soapy was a regular inhabitant of the park.

2) He wanted to protect himself against the co­ming cold.

3) The Mediterranean voyages and Southern skies seemed to him the most desirable thing in life.

4) Soapy might get food in the philantropic insti­tutions, but his proud spirit could not accept it.

5) Soapy did not know how accomplish his desire about the Island.

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