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1.Suggest the Ukrainian for the following.

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(After W.S. Maugham )

Sir Edgar Swift was in the Indian Service and had a
distinguished career. He had been for five years Governor of the
North-West Provinces and had finished his term with reputation of
being the most capable man in India. He had proved himself a great
administrator, though resolute he was tactful, and if he was
peremptory he was also generous and moderate. Tall and spare in his
well-cut blue serge, he looked both athletic and distinguished. Mary
knew he was a good tennis player, a fine rider and an excellent shot.
Taking off his hat he displayed a thick head of black curling hair
hardly touched with grey. His face was bronzed by the Indian sun, a
lean face with a strong chin and an aquiline nose; his brown eyes
under the heavy brows were deep-set and vigilant. Fifty-four? He did
not look a day more than forty-five. A handsome man in the prime of
life. He had dignity without arrogance. He inspired you with
confidence. He wasted no time on small talk. He was ambitious. He
liked power and was not afraid of responsibility. He was the slave to
his integrity.
Rowley was not a good-looking man. He had a tolerable figure,
but he was of average height. He had not a single figure that you
could call good: he had white teeth, but they were not very even; he
had a fresh colour, but not a very clear skin; he had a good head of
hear, but it was between dark and fair; his eyes were large, but they
were pallid blue. He had an air of dissipation and people who didn’t
like him said he looked shifty. It was freely admitted he couldn’t be
trusted. He had a bad record. When he was twenty he married a girl
who was engaged to somebody else, and three years later his wife
divorced him. He was not just over thirty. He was in short a young
man with a shocking reputation which he deserved.
It was a strange contrast he made with Edgar as he walked
across the terrace. Edgar, with his height and his spareness, had

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Текст друкується за виданням W.S. Maugham. Up at the Villa. – Київ:
Кобза, 1995.

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