Portuguese–English parallel text
Número Três
Number Three
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“Eu… eu queria perguntar sobre o emprego”, disse Ana. Sua voz soou fraca e insegura, até para ela mesma. “Aquele que você mencionou no café. Se ainda estiver disponível.”
“I… I wanted to ask about the job,” Ana said. Her voice sounded thin and unsure, even to herself. “The one you mentioned in the café. If it’s still available.”
“Claro que está.” Helen pareceu contente, mas não surpresa, como se Ana simplesmente tivesse chegado na hora em que era esperada. “Você pode me encontrar esta tarde? Às três horas, no número três da Bridge Street. Acho que seria mais fácil explicar se você pudesse ver o que estamos planejando.” Ela fez uma pausa. “Vou garantir que o aquecimento esteja ligado. Aquelas casas velhas são geladas.”
“Of course it is.” Helen sounded pleased but not surprised, as if Ana had simply arrived at the time she had been expected. “Can you meet me this afternoon? Three o’clock, at number three Bridge Street. I think it would be easier to explain if you could see what we’re planning.” She paused. “I’ll make sure the heating is on. Those old houses are freezing.”
Número três, Bridge Street. Bem do outro lado da rua da padaria, três portas acima da loja do Shah. Ana fechou os olhos depois da ligação. De todos os lugares do mundo, Helen tinha escolhido aquele em que todo mundo de quem ela tentava fugir podia vê-la entrar.
Number three, Bridge Street. Directly across the road from the bakery, three doors up from Shah’s. Ana closed her eyes after the call. Of all the places in the world, Helen had chosen the one where everybody she was trying to avoid could watch her walk in.
Daniel estava fazendo torradas quando ela contou. Ele parou com a faca de manteiga no ar. “Número três? Você vai ao castelo do inimigo, em plena luz do dia, em frente à padaria?” Depois ele viu o rosto dela e pousou a faca. “Desculpe. Piada ruim. Você tem que comer, Ana, e tem que pagar aluguel em algum lugar. Ninguém nesta cidade tem o direito de julgar você por ouvir uma oferta de emprego. Nem mesmo a Priya.”
Daniel was making toast when she told him. He stopped with the butter knife in the air. “Number three? You’re going to the enemy’s castle, in broad daylight, opposite the bakery?” Then he saw her face and put the knife down. “Sorry. Bad joke. You have to eat, Ana, and you have to pay rent somewhere. Nobody in this town has the right to judge you for listening to a job offer. Not even Priya.”
“A Priya vai me julgar de qualquer jeito”, disse Ana.
“Priya will judge me anyway,” Ana said.
“Provavelmente”, concordou Daniel. “Mas ela vai alimentar você enquanto faz isso. Esse é o tipo de julgamento com o qual eu posso viver.”
“Probably,” Daniel agreed. “But she’ll feed you while she does it. That’s the kind of judging I can live with.”
Ela foi mesmo assim. Desceu a Bridge Street às três para as três, com o capuz levantado e os olhos na calçada, como uma criminosa voltando à cena do crime. Não olhou para a porta verde da padaria. Não olhou para a janela da Priya, embora pudesse sentir a Priya olhando para ela. Bateu na porta do número três, e ela se abriu na mesma hora.
She went anyway. She walked down Bridge Street at five to three with her hood up and her eyes on the pavement, like a criminal returning to the scene. She did not look at the green door of the bakery. She did not look at Priya’s window, although she could feel Priya looking at her. She knocked on the door of number three, and it opened at once.
Por dentro, a casa estava vazia e cheirava a tinta fresca e pedra velha. Os móveis dos Harrison tinham sumido, e as paredes estavam vazias, com exceção dos quadrados claros onde quadros antes ficavam pendurados. Helen tinha transformado a sala da frente em uma espécie de escritório. Havia uma mesa comprida cheia de desenhos, dois aquecedores brilhando em laranja e uma máquina de café que parecia mais cara do que o carro do Daniel.
Inside, the house was empty and smelled of fresh paint and old stone. The Harrisons’ furniture had gone, and the walls were bare except for pale squares where pictures had once hung. Helen had turned the front room into a kind of office. There was a long table covered with drawings, two heaters glowing orange, and a coffee machine that looked more expensive than Daniel’s car.
No meio da mesa havia uma maquete da Bridge Street, feita de papelão branco e plástico transparente. Ana reconheceu a forma da rua na mesma hora: a descida até o rio, a velha ponte de pedra no final. Mas as casas eram diferentes. Onde agora ficavam os números três, cinco e sete, havia um prédio longo e elegante, com janelas grandes e um jardim no terraço.
In the middle of the table stood a model of Bridge Street, made of white card and clear plastic. Ana recognised the shape of the street at once: the slope down to the river, the old stone bridge at the bottom. But the houses were different. Where numbers three, five and seven now stood, there was one long, elegant building with large windows and a roof garden.
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