...He lurched through the door. In that desperate moment, in the whirl of his emotions, there seemed to be no other way out of his horrible predicament. He had grown to love the girl with all the consuming passion of his soul, realizing fully his blind folly at the same time. He had built no false hopes. As to speaking of that love—even betraying it by a glance—he had sheathed himself in the armor of reserved constraint; he had been sure that he sooner would have gone down on his hands and knees and bayed that silver moon from the deck of the yacht Olenia than do what he had just done...

... Он, пошатываясь, вошел в дверь. В тот отчаянный момент, в водовороте своих эмоций, казалось, что другого выхода из его ужасного положения нет. Он полюбил девушку со всей всепоглощающей страстью своей души, в то же вре Развернуть