Three Short Stories [antikvár]

THE AMBITIOUS GUESTi One September night a family had gathered round their hearth^, and piled® it high with the drifiwood* of mountain streams®, the dry cones® of the pine', and the splintered^ ruins of great trees that had come crashing down^ the precipice^®. Up the chimney roared the fire, and brightened the room with its broad blaze^^. The faces of the father and mother had a sober^^ gladness; the children laughed; the eldest daughter was the image^® of Happiness at seventeen; and the aged grandmother, who sat knitting^^ in the warmest place, was the image of Happiness grown old. They had found the "herb, heart's-ease"i® in the bleakest^® spot of all New England. This family were situated^' in the Notch^® of the White Hills, where the wind was sharp throughout the year^®, and pitilessly cold in the winter, — giving their cottage all its fresh inclemency^" before it descended^i on the valley of the Saco. They dwelt in a cold spot and a dangerous one; for a mountain towered22 adove their heads, so steep, that the stones would often rumble down^® its sides and startle^^ them at midnight. The daughter had just uttered some simple jest^® that filled them all with mirth^®, when the wind came through the ^ the ambitious (aem'bifas) guest — aMSHnaosHH rocx; ^ hearth (ha: 6) — oribHinTe; ^ to pile — nacJiarara, aaxpnaxH; ^ driftwood — cnJiaBJbeHO flPBo; ® stream (stri:m) — noxoK; ® cone (koun) — nramapKa; ' pine — Sop; ® to splinter — pacuenaxH ce; ® to crash down — cxponoinTaTH ce (ca myMOM); lo precipice ('presipis) — npoBanHja; ^^ broad blaze — jaK SjiecaK; 12 — (Tpe3BeH), CMHpeH; image ('imids)—CMKa; to knit — miecTH; i® "herb, heart''s-ease" — „xpasa, MajiHHa flynxHua"; bleak BexpoMexan; to situate — HacxaHHXH ce, cMecxHXH ce; Notch — KJiaaan, TecHa^; i» throughout the year — xokom roAHHe; 20 inclemency (in'klemansi) — cypoBocT, omxpHHa; 21 to discend—cnymxaxH ce, cHJiasHxn; 22 to tower —y3flH3axH ce Kao Kyjia; 23 to rumble down—Koxpji.axH ce; 24 to startle — xprnyxH, npenyxn; 25 to utter a y^i/— Hcnpa-iaxH bhu; 26 mirth (m^:^) — Becen>e.