she offed with her cap o’ rushes and cleaned herself (она сняла свой камышовый чепец и почистила себя), and away she went to the dance (и отправилась на бал).
The master’s son was rarely glad when he saw her (сын хозяина был на редкость: «редко» рад, когда он увидел ее). He danced with none but her (он не танцевал ни с кем, кроме нее) and never took his eyes off her (и вовсе не сводил своих глаз с нее). When she wouldn’t tell him her name (когда она не захотела сказать ему свое имя), nor where she came from (ни откуда она пришла), he gave her a ring (он дал ей кольцо) and told her if he didn’t see her again (и сказал ей, что если он не увидит ее снова) he should die (он умрет).
Well, before the dance was over (прежде чем бал был окончен), off she slipped (прочь она ускользнула), and home she went (и домой она пошла), and when the maids came home (и когда служанки пришли домой) she was pretending to be asleep with her cap o’ rushes on (она притворялась быть спящей = что спит в своем камышовом чепце).
Well, come this evening, Cap o’ Rushes said she was too tired to go, and do what they would she stayed at home. But when they were gone, she offed with her cap o’ rushes and cleaned herself, and away she went to the dance.
The master’s son was rarely glad when he saw her. He danced with none but her and never took his eyes off her. When she wouldn’t tell him her name, nor where she came from, he gave her a ring and told her if he didn’t see her again he should die.
Well, before the dance was over, off she slipped, and home she went, and when the maids came home she was pretending to be asleep with her cap o’ rushes on.
Well, next day they says to her (на следующий день они говорят ей), ‘There (вот: «там»), Cap o’ Rushes, you didn’t come last night (ты не пришла прошлой: «последней» ночью), and now you won’t see the lady (и теперь ты не увидишь эту даму), for there’s no more dances (ибо нет больше танцев).’
‘Well, I should have rarely liked to have seen her (я бы исключительно: «редко» хотела увидеть ее),’ says she.
The master’s son tried every way (сын хозяина пробовал каждый способ: «путь») to find out (обнаружить) where the lady was gone (куда дама ушла), but go where he might (но куда бы он ни ходил), and ask whom he might (и кого он ни спрашивал) he never heard anything about her (он так и не: «никогда не» услышал что-то о ней). And he got worse and worse for the love of her (и ему становилось все хуже и хуже из-за любви к ней) till he had to keep his bed (пока он не должен был оставаться в постели).
‘Make some gruel for the young master (сделай немного каши для молодого хозяина),’ they said to the cook (сказали кухарке). ‘He’s dying for the love of the lady (он умирает от любви к той даме).’ The cook set about making it (кухарка начала делать ее; to set about – приступать) when Cap o’ Rushes came in (когда Камышовый чепец вошла внутрь).
‘What are you a-doing (что ты делаешь; разг. вместо doing)?’ says she.
‘I’m going to make some gruel (я собираюсь сделать немного каши; to be going to do something – собираться сделать что-то) for the young master (для молодого хозяина),’ says the cook (говорит кухарка), ‘for he’s dying for the love of the lady (ибо он умирает от любви к той даме).’
‘Let me make it (позволь мне сделать ее),’ says Cap o’ Rushes.
Well, next day they says to her, ‘There, Cap o’ Rushes, you didn’t come last night, and now you won’t see the lady, for there’s no more dances.’
‘Well, I should have rarely liked to have seen her,’ says she.
The master’s son tried every way to find out where the lady was gone, but go where he might, and ask whom he might he never heard anything about her. And he got worse and worse for the love of her till he had to keep his bed.
‘Make some gruel for the young master,’ they said to the cook. ‘He’s dying for the love of the lady.’ The cook set about making it when Cap o’ Rushes came in.
‘What are you a-doing?’ says she.
‘I’m going to make some gruel for the young master,’ says the cook, ‘for he’s dying for the love of the lady.’
‘Let me make it,’ says Cap o’ Rushes.
Well, the cook wouldn’t at first (кухарка не хотела сперва), but at last she said yes (но наконец она сказала да), and Cap o’ Rushes made the gruel (и Камышовый чепец сделала кашу). And when she had made it (а когда она сделала ее), she slipped the ring into it (она незаметно положила кольцо в нее) on the sly (тайком) before the cook took it upstairs (прежде чем кухарка понесла ее наверх: «взяла ее наверх по лестнице»).
The young man he drank it (молодой человек выпил ее) and then he saw the ring at the bottom (и тогда он увидел кольцо на дне).
‘Send for the cook (пошлите за кухаркой),’ says he. So up she comes (так что вверх она приходит