| Instead, he found himself with Yossarian, Dunbar and Hungry Joe in a whore house in Rome, poignantly in love with an indifferent girl there with whom he finally did lie down the morning after the night he slept alone in the sitting room, only to be interrupted almost immediately by her incorrigible kid sister, who came bursting in without warning and hurled herself onto the bed jealously so that Nately could embrace her, too. Nately's whore sprang up snarling to whack her angrily and jerked her to her feet by her hair. The twelve-year-old girl looked to Nately like a plucked chicken or like a twig with the bark peeled off her sapling body embarrassed everyone in her precocious attempts to imitate her elders, and she was always being chased away to put clothes on and ordered out into the street to play in the fresh air with the other children. The two sisters swore and spat at each other now savagely, raising a fluent, deafening commotion that brought a whole crowd of hilarious spectators swarming into the room. Nately gave up in exasperation. | А вместо этого Нейтли-младший очутился вместе с Йоссарианом, Данбэром и Заморышем Джо в Риме, в публичном доме, терзаясь от любви к равнодушной девке. Наутро, после одинокой ночевки в гостиной, он все-таки разыскал ее. Не успели они как следует устроиться в постели, как в комнату без предупреждения ворвалась двенадцатилетняя сестренка нейтлевой девицы. |
| He asked his girl to get dressed and took her downstairs for breakfast. | Пришлось одеться и спуститься вниз позавтракать. |
| The kid sister tagged along, and Nately felt like the proud head of a family as the three of them ate respectably in a nearby open-air café. | Сестренка увязалась за ними, и, когда они втроем чинно завтракали в ближайшем кафе, Нейтли чувствовал себя гордым главой семейства. |
| But Nately's whore was already bored by the time they started back, and she decided to go streetwalking with two other girls rather than spend more time with him. Nately and the kid sister followed meekly a block behind, the ambitious youngster to pick up valuable pointers, Nately to eat his liver in mooning frustration, and both were saddened when the girls were stopped by soldiers in a staff car and driven away. | Но на обратном пути нейтлева подружка заскучала и, не желая тратить попусту время с Нейтли, решила прошвырнуться по улице со своими двумя товарками. |
| Nately went back to the café and bought the kid sister chocolate ice cream until her spirits improved and then returned with her to the apartment, where Yossarian and Dunbar were flopped out in the sitting room with an exhausted Hungry Joe, who was still wearing on his battered face the blissful, numb, triumphant smile with which he had limped into view from his massive harem that morning like a person with numerous broken bones. | Нейтли вернулся в кафе и угостил девочку шоколадным мороженым, отчего она заметно повеселела. Когда они вернулись в бордель, утомившиеся Йоссариан и Данбэр валялись в гостиной в обществе изможденного Заморыша Джо, на помятой морде которого застыла туповатая, блаженная, победоносная улыбка. С этой улыбкой он и появился поутру в гостиной, приковыляв из своего обширного гарема походкой человека, которому переломали все кости. |
| The lecherous and depraved old man was delighted with Hungry Joe's split lips and black-and-blue eyes. | Распухшие губы и синяки под глазами Заморыша Джо привели старикашку-хозяина в восторг. |
| He greeted Nately warmly, still wearing the same rumpled clothes of the evening before. | Одетый в ту же изжеванную рубаху, что и накануне, старик тепло приветствовал Нейтли. |
