Who was interested not in him but in Julia.

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Mrs. de Vries was a widow (миссис де Фриз была вдовой). She was a short stout

woman (она была невысокой полной женщиной; short — короткий, низкий)

with a fine Jewish nose (с прекрасным еврейским носом) and fine Jewish eyes (и

прекрасными еврейскими глазами), a great deal of energy (очень энергичной),

a manner at once effusive and timid (с манерами одновременно экспансивными

и застенчивыми), and a somewhat virile air (и      было в ней нечто мужское: «   и

немного мужским видом»; air — воздух, атмосфера; манеры). She had a

passion for the stage (у нее была страсть к театру: «сцене»). When Julia and

Michael had decided to try their luck in London (когда Джулия и Майкл решили

попытать счастья в Лондоне; luck — судьба, случай, счастье, удача) Jimmie

Langton, to whose rescue she had sometimes come (Джимми Лэнгтон, к кому на

помощь она иногда приходила) when it looked as though he would be forced to

close his repertory theatre (когда казалось, что он будет вынужден закрыть

свой репертуарный театр; it looks as though — похоже на то, что), had written

to her (написал ей) asking her to do what she could for them (с просьбой к ней

сделать все что в ее силах: «что она могла» для них). She had seen Julia act in

Middlepool (она видела. как Джулия играла в Миддлпуле). 

widow ['wIdqV] effusive [I'fju:sIv] timid ['tImId] virile ['vIraIl] rescue ['reskju:]

Mrs. de Vries was a widow. She was a short stout woman with a fine Jewish

Nose and fine Jewish eyes, a great deal of energy, a manner at once effusive

And timid, and a somewhat virile air. She had a passion for the stage. When

Julia and Michael had decided to try their luck in London Jimmie Langton, to

Whose rescue she had sometimes come when it looked as though he would be

Forced to close his repertory theatre, had written to her asking her to do what