| "Tis wonderful how many consaits mankind have consarnin' happiness and misery, here after!" exclaimed the hunter, borne away by the power of his own thoughts. 'Some believe in burnin's and flames, and some think punishment is to eat with the wolves and dogs. Then, ag'in, some fancy heaven to be only the carryin' out of their own 'arthly longin's, while others fancy it all gold and shinin' lights! Well, I've an idee of my own, in that matter, which is just this, Sarpent. Whenever I've done wrong, I've ginirally found 'twas owin' to some blindness of the mind, which hid the right from view, and when sight has returned, then has come sorrow and repentance. Now, I consait that, after death, when the body is laid aside or, if used at all, is purified and without its longin's, the spirit sees all things in their ra'al lights and never becomes blind to truth and justice. Such bein' the case, all that has been done in life, is beheld as plainly as the sun is seen at noon; the good brings joy, while the evil brings sorrow. There's nothin' onreasonable in that, but it's agreeable to every man's exper'ence." "I thought the pale-faces believed all men were wicked; who then could ever find the white man's heaven?" "That's ingen'ous, but it falls short of the missionary teachin's. You'll be Christianized one day, I make no doubt, and then 'twill all come plain enough. You must know, Sarpent, that there's been a great deed of salvation done, that, by God's help, enables all men to find a pardon for their wickednesses, and that is the essence of the white man's religion. | - Удивительно, право, как люди по-разному представляют себе блаженство и муку после смерти! - воскликнул охотник, отдаваясь течению своих мыслей. - Одни верят в неугасимое пламя, а другие думают, что грешникам придется искать себе пишу с волками и собаками. |
| I can't stop to talk this matter over with you any longer, for Hetty's in the canoe, and the furlough takes me away, but the time will come I hope when you'll feel these things; for, after all, they must be felt rather than reasoned about. | Но я не могу больше говорить обо всем этом: Хетти уже сидит в пироге и мой отпуск кончается. |
| Ah's! me; well, Delaware, there's my hand; you know it's that of a fri'nd, and will shake it as such, though it never has done you one half the good its owner wishes it had." | Горе мне! Ладно, делавар, вот моя рука. Ты знаешь, что это рука друга, и пожмешь ее как друг, хотя она и не сделала тебе даже половины того добра, которого я тебе желаю. |
| The Indian took the offered hand, and returned its pressure warmly. | Индеец взял протянутую руку в горячо ответил на пожатие. |
| Then falling back on his acquired stoicism of manner, which so many mistake for constitutional indifference, he drew up in reserve, and prepared to part from his friend with dignity. | Затем, вернувшись к своей обычной невозмутимости, которую многие принимали за врожденное равнодушие, он снова овладел собой, - чтобы расстаться с другом с подобающим достоинством. |
| Deerslayer, however, was more natural, nor would he have at all cared about giving way to his feelings, had not the recent conduct and language of Judith given him some secret, though ill defined apprehensions of a scene. | Зверобой, впрочем, держал себя более естественно и не побоялся бы дать полную волю своим чувствам, если бы не его недавний разговор с Джудит. |
