Portuguese–English parallel text
O Policial e o Hino
The Cop and the Anthem
O. Henry
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Em seu banco no Madison Square, Soapy se mexeu inquieto.
On his bench in Madison Square Soapy moved uneasily.
Quando os gansos selvagens grasnam alto durante as noites, quando as mulheres sem casacos de pele de foca ficam gentis com seus maridos, e quando Soapy se mexe inquieto em seu banco na praça, você pode saber que o inverno está próximo.
When wild geese honk high of nights, and when women without sealskin coats grow kind to their husbands, and when Soapy moves uneasily on his bench in the park, you may know that winter is near at hand.
Uma folha seca caiu no colo de Soapy. Aquele era o cartão de visitas do Jack Frost. Jack é gentil com os habitantes regulares do Madison Square e avisa com antecedência sobre sua visita anual.
A dead leaf fell in Soapy’s lap. That was Jack Frost’s card. Jack is kind to the regular denizens of Madison Square, and gives fair warning of his annual call.
Nas esquinas de quatro ruas, ele entrega seu cartão de papelão ao Vento Norte, o lacaio da mansão de Todo o Ar Livre, para que seus habitantes possam se preparar.
At the corners of four streets he hands his pasteboard to the North Wind, footman of the mansion of All Outdoors, so that the inhabitants thereof may make ready.
A mente de Soapy tomou consciência do fato de que havia chegado a hora de ele se transformar em um singular Comitê de Meios e Recursos para se prevenir contra o rigor que se aproximava. E, portanto, ele se mexeu inquieto em seu banco.
Soapy’s mind became cognisant of the fact that the time had come for him to resolve himself into a singular Committee of Ways and Means to provide against the coming rigour. And therefore he moved uneasily on his bench.
As ambições de hibernação de Soapy não eram das mais altas. Nelas não havia considerações sobre cruzeiros pelo Mediterrâneo, nem sobre céus sonolentos do Sul flutuando na Baía do Vesúvio. Três meses na Ilha era o que sua alma desejava.
The hibernatorial ambitions of Soapy were not of the highest. In them there were no considerations of Mediterranean cruises, of soporific Southern skies drifting in the Vesuvian Bay. Three months on the Island was what his soul craved.
Três meses de cama e comida garantidas e de companhia agradável, a salvo de Bóreas e dos policiais fardados de azul, pareciam a Soapy a essência de tudo o que era desejável.
Three months of assured board and bed and congenial company, safe from Boreas and bluecoats, seemed to Soapy the essence of things desirable.
Durante anos, a hospitaleira Blackwell fora seu refúgio de inverno.
For years the hospitable Blackwell’s had been his winter quarters.
Assim como seus compatriotas nova-iorquinos mais afortunados compravam passagens para Palm Beach e a Riviera a cada inverno, Soapy fazia seus preparativos humildes para sua fuga anual rumo à Ilha. E agora a hora havia chegado.
Just as his more fortunate fellow New Yorkers had bought their tickets to Palm Beach and the Riviera each winter, so Soapy had made his humble arrangements for his annual hegira to the Island. And now the time was come.
Na noite anterior, três jornais de domingo, distribuídos debaixo de seu casaco, em torno de seus tornozelos e sobre seu colo, não tinham conseguido repelir o frio enquanto ele dormia em seu banco perto do chafariz na antiga praça.
On the previous night three Sabbath newspapers, distributed beneath his coat, about his ankles and over his lap, had failed to repulse the cold as he slept on his bench near the spurting fountain in the ancient square.
Assim, a Ilha surgiu imensa e oportuna na mente de Soapy. Ele desprezava os recursos oferecidos em nome da caridade para os desamparados da cidade. Na opinião de Soapy, a Lei era mais benigna do que a Filantropia.
So the Island loomed big and timely in Soapy’s mind. He scorned the provisions made in the name of charity for the city’s dependents. In Soapy’s opinion the Law was more benign than Philanthropy.
Havia uma infinidade de instituições, municipais e de caridade, pelas quais ele poderia passar e receber abrigo e comida adequados a uma vida simples. Mas, para alguém com o espírito orgulhoso de Soapy, as dádivas da caridade vêm com um preço.
There was an endless round of institutions, municipal and eleemosynary, on which he might set out and receive lodging and food accordant with the simple life. But to one of Soapy’s proud spirit the gifts of charity are encumbered.
Se não for em dinheiro, você tem que pagar em humilhação de espírito por cada benefício recebido das mãos da filantropia.
If not in coin you must pay in humiliation of spirit for every benefit received at the hands of philanthropy.
Assim como César teve o seu Brutus, cada cama de caridade deve cobrar o pedágio de um banho, cada pedaço de pão a sua compensação em uma inquisição privada e pessoal.
As Caesar had his Brutus, every bed of charity must have its toll of a bath, every loaf of bread its compensation of a private and personal inquisition.
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