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CHAPTER I
CHAPTER II
CHAPTER III
CHAPTER IV
CHAPTER V
CHAPTER VI
CHAPTER VII
CHAPTER VIII
CHAPTER IX
CHAPTER X
CHAPTER XI
CHAPTER XII
CHAPTER XIII

The Secret Agent. A Simple Tale Text

secret agent - गुप्त एजेंट

Joseph - favorite son of Jacob

CHAPTER I

Mr Verloc, going out in the morning, left his shop nominally in charge of his brother-in-law. It could be done, because there was very little business at any time, and practically none at all before the evening. Mr Verloc cared but little about his ostensible business. And, moreover, his wife was in charge of his brother-in-law.

nominally - नाम के लिये, नाम के लिये

practically - लगभग, वास्तव में

ostensible - प्रत्यक्ष, तथाकथित

The shop was small, and so was the house. It was one of those grimy brick houses which existed in large quantities before the era of reconstruction dawned upon London. The shop was a square box of a place, with the front glazed in small panes. In the daytime the door remained closed; in the evening it stood discreetly but suspiciously ajar.

grimy - मैला

reconstruction - पुनर्निर्माण, पुनर्रचना

dawned - होना, निकलना, सामने आना

glazed - मिश्रण, चमकाना

panes - फलक, खिड़की का शीशा

daytime - दिन, दिन के समय, दिन के समय

discreetly - सावधानी से, सावधानी से

ajar - अधखुला

The window contained photographs of more or less undressed dancing girls; nondescript packages in wrappers like patent medicines; closed yellow paper envelopes, very flimsy, and marked two-and-six in heavy black figures; a few numbers of ancient French comic publications hung across a string as if to dry; a dingy blue china bowl, a casket of black wood, bottles of marking ink, and rubber stamps; a few books, with titles hinting at impropriety; a few apparently old copies of obscure newspapers, badly printed, with titles like The Torch, The Gong-rousing titles. And the two gas jets inside the panes were always turned low, either for economy's sake or for the sake of the customers.

undressed - निर्वस्त्रता, कपड़े उतारना

nondescript - साधारण

wrappers - ओढ़ना, आवरण, लपेटने का कागज

patent - पेटेंट, एकस्व, सुन्दर तरीका

flimsy - कच्चा, सूक्ष्म, झीना, पतला कपड़ा

dingy - काला और गन्दा

casket - शवपेटिका

hinting at - इशारा करना

impropriety - अनुचित व्यवहार, अनौचित्य

obscure - अज्ञात, दुरूह, कठिनाई

torch - मशाल

gong - घंटा

rousing - उत्तेजित करना, उत्तेजित, उठाना

sake - के लिये

customers - ग्राहक, असामी, खरीदनेवाला

These customers were either very young men, who hung about the window for a time before slipping in suddenly; or men of a more mature age, but looking generally as if they were not in funds.

hung about - लगाया हुआ

mature - पूर्ण विकसित

Some of that last kind had the collars of their overcoats turned right up to their moustaches, and traces of mud on the bottom of their nether garments, which had the appearance of being much worn and not very valuable. And the legs inside them did not, as a general rule, seem of much account either.

collars - झपट लेना, पट्टा, पकड़ना

overcoats - ओवरकोट

moustaches - मूँछ/श्मश्रु, मूँछ

nether - नीचे का, रसातली, निचला

garments - वस्ट्र, कपड़ा

With their hands plunged deep in the side pockets of their coats, they dodged in sideways, one shoulder first, as if afraid to start the bell going.

plunged - उछाल आना, फँसाना, प्रवेश करना

side pockets - साइड पॉकेट्स

dodged - झटके से चले जाना

sideways - की तरफ़, तीरछा होकर, एक तरफ़ से

The bell, hung on the door by means of a curved ribbon of steel, was difficult to circumvent. It was hopelessly cracked; but of an evening, at the slightest provocation, it clattered behind the customer with impudent virulence.

ribbon - फीता, फ़ीता, रिबन

circumvent - गतिरोध पैदा करना

hopelessly - निराशाजनक ढंग से

provocation - उत्तेजना, कारण, छेड़खानी

clattered - खड़खड़ की आवाज़ करना, खड़खड़ाहट

impudent - अविवेकी, अक्खड़, निर्लज्ज

virulence - उग्रता, अनिष्टकरता

It clattered; and at that signal, through the dusty glass door behind the painted deal counter, Mr Verloc would issue hastily from the parlour at the back. His eyes were naturally heavy; he had an air of having wallowed, fully dressed, all day on an unmade bed. Another man would have felt such an appearance a distinct disadvantage.

dusty - धूसर, धूल धूसरित, गंदा

hastily - जल्दी से, जल्दी से

parlour - बैठक खाना

wallowed - उमड़ पड़ना

unmade - नष्ट करना

In a commercial transaction of the retail order much depends on the seller's engaging and amiable aspect. But Mr Verloc knew his business, and remained undisturbed by any sort of ćsthetic doubt about his appearance.

transaction - लेन देन, कार्रवाई, सौदा

seller - विक्रेता

amiable - स्नेही, मिलनसार, कांत

undisturbed - अक्षुब्ध, अबाधित, उथल पुथल रहित

With a firm, steady-eyed impudence, which seemed to hold back the threat of some abominable menace, he would proceed to sell over the counter some object looking obviously and scandalously not worth the money which passed in the transaction: a small cardboard box with apparently nothing inside, for instance, or one of those carefully closed yellow flimsy envelopes, or a soiled volume in paper covers with a promising title. Now and then it happened that one of the faded, yellow dancing girls would get sold to an amateur, as though she had been alive and young.

impudence - अक्खड़पन, अक्खड़तापूर्ण वचन

abominable - घटिया, नृशंस, भद्दा, घृणित

menace - कष्टारी व्यक्ति या वस्तु

scandalously - शर्मनक ढंग से, शर्मनक ढंग से

cardboard - गत्ता

faded - सनक

amateur - शौकिया, अव्यवसायी

Sometimes it was Mrs Verloc who would appear at the call of the cracked bell. Winnie Verloc was a young woman with a full bust, in a tight bodice, and with broad hips. Her hair was very tidy. Steady-eyed like her husband, she preserved an air of unfathomable indifference behind the rampart of the counter.

bust - छाती

bodice - चोली, चोली/अँगिया, अँगिया

unfathomable - अज्ञेय, गहन, अथाह, अथाह/अगाध

indifference - उदासीनता, उपेक्षा

rampart - परकोटा

Then the customer of comparatively tender years would get suddenly disconcerted at having to deal with a woman, and with rage in his heart would proffer a request for a bottle of marking ink, retail value sixpence (price in Verloc's shop one-and-sixpence), which, once outside, he would drop stealthily into the gutter.

comparatively - तुलनात्मक रूप से

tender - मुलायम, नरम

disconcerted - अशांत कर देना

rage - ज़ोर से चलना, रोष व्यक्त करना

proffer - देना, आगे बढ़ाते हुए देना

sixpence - छः पेंस

stealthily - छिप कर

gutter - नाली

The evening visitors-the men with collars turned up and soft hats rammed down-nodded familiarly to Mrs Verloc, and with a muttered greeting, lifted up the flap at the end of the counter in order to pass into the back parlour, which gave access to a passage and to a steep flight of stairs.

rammed - भित्ति पातक, ठोकर मारना, भेंड़ा

nodded - ऊँघना, झूमना, सिर हिलाना, हुक्म

familiarly - in a familiar manner

muttered - शिकायत, फुसफुसाहट, बड़बड़ाना

flap - फ्लैप

pass into - पास करना

The door of the shop was the only means of entrance to the house in which Mr Verloc carried on his business of a seller of shady wares, exercised his vocation of a protector of society, and cultivated his domestic virtues. These last were pronounced. He was thoroughly domesticated. Neither his spiritual, nor his mental, nor his physical needs were of the kind to take him much abroad.

shady - छायादार/छायामय, नीच, छायादार

vocation - योग्यता, धंधा, ईश्वरीय आह्वान

protector - संरक्षक, रक्षक, रक्षी, रक्षमान

cultivated - करना, तैयार करना, तैयार करना

virtues - गुण, सद्गुण, नैतिकता, नैतिक गुण

domesticated - पालतू बनाना

He found at home the ease of his body and the peace of his conscience, together with Mrs Verloc's wifely attentions and Mrs Verloc's mother's deferential regard.

ease - शांत करना, आराम, हल्का करना

conscience - विवेक, अन्तरात्मा, ज़मीर

wifely - पत्नीसुलभ

deferential - सम्मानपूर्ण, श्रद्धासूचक

Winnie's mother was a stout, wheezy woman, with a large brown face. She wore a black wig under a white cap. Her swollen legs rendered her inactive.

stout - हट्टा-कट्टा

wheezy - घरघराता

wig - उपकेश, विग

swollen - सुन्दर, बढ़ाना, मोड़ना, उठाना

rendered - देना, अर्पण करना, पैदा करना

inactive - निष्क्रिय, प्रभावहीन, बेकार

She considered herself to be of French descent, which might have been true; and after a good many years of married life with a licensed victualler of the more common sort, she provided for the years of widowhood by letting furnished apartments for gentlemen near Vauxhall Bridge Road in a square once of some splendour and still included in the district of Belgravia.

descent - कुल, वंश परंपरा, वंशज, पतन

licensed - स्वच्छंदता, लाइसेंस

victualler - रसद संभरक, सराय वाला

widowhood - वैधव्य, वैधव्य काल, विधवापन

furnished - सुस्सजित करना, प्रस्तुत करना

splendour - चमक, भव्यता, वैभव, जगमगाहट

This topographical fact was of some advantage in advertising her rooms; but the patrons of the worthy widow were not exactly of the fashionable kind. Such as they were, her daughter Winnie helped to look after them. Traces of the French descent which the widow boasted of were apparent in Winnie too. They were apparent in the extremely neat and artistic arrangement of her glossy dark hair.

topographical - स्थलाकृतिक

patrons - संरक्षक, दर्शक, ग्राहक

worthy - योग्य, ईमानदार, उपयुक्त, लायक

widow - विधवा, वीडो, बेवा, राँड़

boasted - डींग मारना, डींग, गौरव, इतराना

glossy - चमकीला, चिकना, पत्रिका

Winnie had also other charms: her youth; her full, rounded form; her clear complexion; the provocation of her unfathomable reserve, which never went so far as to prevent conversation, carried on on the lodgers'part with animation, and on hers with an equable amiability. It must be that Mr Verloc was susceptible to these fascinations. Mr Verloc was an intermittent patron.

charms - बहकाना, मनोहरता, आकर्षित करना

complexion - वर्ण, स्वरूप

equable - स्थिर, शांत, स्थिरचित्त

amiability - सौम्यता, मिलनसारीई, मिलनसारी

susceptible - योग्य, भावुक, अतिसंवेदनशील

fascinations - आकर्षण, मोह, सम्मोहन

intermittent - आंतरायिक, बीच बीच में होने वाला

patron - संरक्षक, दर्शक, ग्राहक

He came and went without any very apparent reason. He generally arrived in London (like the influenza) from the Continent, only he arrived unheralded by the Press; and his visitations set in with great severity. He breakfasted in bed, and remained wallowing there with an air of quiet enjoyment till noon every day-and sometimes even to a later hour.

influenza - इन्फ़्लुएन्ज़ा, भारी नज़ला

unheralded - अघोषित, बिना सूचना का

visitations - मुसीबत, मुलाकात, निरीक्षण

severity - कठोरता, कठिनाई, उग्रता, जड़ता

wallowing - - गमगुमी, (wallow) - गमगुमी

enjoyment - मज़ा, आनंद

noon - मध्याह्न

But when he went out he seemed to experience a great difficulty in finding his way back to his temporary home in the Belgravian square.

Belgravian - बेल्ग्रेवियन

He left it late, and returned to it early-as early as three or four in the morning; and on waking up at ten addressed Winnie, bringing in the breakfast tray, with jocular, exhausted civility, in the hoarse, failing tones of a man who had been talking vehemently for many hours together.

tray - ट्रे

jocular - परिहासशील, विनोदप्रिय, मज़ाकिया

exhausted - थकाना, खींच लेना

civility - नम्रता, शिष्टता, सभ्यता

hoarse - कर्कश

vehemently - जोरदार, ज़ोरदार ढंग से

His prominent, heavy-lidded eyes rolled sideways amorously and languidly, the bedclothes were pulled up to his chin, and his dark smooth moustache covered his thick lips capable of much honeyed banter.

prominent - प्रमुख, दृश्य, सुस्पष्ट

lidded - रोकना, ढक्कन, रूकावट, आच्छद

amorously - कामुकता से, कामुकता से

languidly - उत्साहहीन तरीके से

bedclothes - बिस्तर के चादर कम्बल

chin - ठुड्डी

moustache - मूँछ, मूछ

thick lips - मोटे होंठ

honeyed - मधु, शहद

banter - हास्य/उपहास, हँसी मज़ाकअ

In Winnie's mother's opinion Mr Verloc was a very nice gentleman. From her life's experience gathered in various "business houses" the good woman had taken into her retirement an ideal of gentlemanliness as exhibited by the patrons of private-saloon bars. Mr Verloc approached that ideal; he attained it, in fact.

gentlemanliness - शौर्य

attained - पाना, प्राप्त करना, सिद्ध करना

"Of course, we'll take over your furniture, mother," Winnie had remarked.

The lodging-house was to be given up. It seems it would not answer to carry it on. It would have been too much trouble for Mr Verloc. It would not have been convenient for his other business.

lodging - आवास, (lodge)

What his business was he did not say; but after his engagement to Winnie he took the trouble to get up before noon, and descending the basement stairs, make himself pleasant to Winnie's mother in the breakfast-room downstairs where she had her motionless being. He stroked the cat, poked the fire, had his lunch served to him there.

engagement - वचन, सगाई, वाग्दान, अनुबंध

descending - उतरना, उतारना, नीचे उतरना

motionless - स्थिर, अचल, गतिहीन, निःस्पंद

poked - निकलना, ढकेलना, चुभोना

He left its slightly stuffy cosiness with evident reluctance, but, all the same, remained out till the night was far advanced. He never offered to take Winnie to theatres, as such a nice gentleman ought to have done. His evenings were occupied. His work was in a way political, he told Winnie once. She would have, he warned her, to be very nice to his political friends.

stuffy - नीरस, उबाऊ, दम घोंटनेवाला

cosiness - आराम

reluctance - प्रतिष्टंभ, अरुचि, अनिच्छा

offered - देना, अर्पण करना, बलि देना

And with her straight, unfathomable glance she answered that she would be so, of course.

glance - चमकना, ग्लांस करना, नजर डालना

How much more he told her as to his occupation it was impossible for Winnie's mother to discover. The married couple took her over with the furniture. The mean aspect of the shop surprised her. The change from the Belgravian square to the narrow street in Soho affected her legs adversely. They became of an enormous size.

adversely - प्रतिकूल रूप से

On the other hand, she experienced a complete relief from material cares. Her son-in-law's heavy good nature inspired her with a sense of absolute safety. Her daughter's future was obviously assured, and even as to her son Stevie she need have no anxiety. She had not been able to conceal from herself that he was a terrible encumbrance, that poor Stevie.

good nature - अच्छी स्वभाव

conceal - छिपाना

encumbrance - बाधा, भार

But in view of Winnie's fondness for her delicate brother, and of Mr Verloc's kind and generous disposition, she felt that the poor boy was pretty safe in this rough world. And in her heart of hearts she was not perhaps displeased that the Verlocs had no children.

fondness - इश्क, झुकाव, स्नेह, लगाव

delicate - स्वादिष्ट, लिहाज रखनेवाला

disposition - प्रवृत्ति, प्रबंध, स्थिति

displeased - अप्रसन्न कर देना

As that circumstance seemed perfectly indifferent to Mr Verloc, and as Winnie found an object of quasi-maternal affection in her brother, perhaps this was just as well for poor Stevie.

indifferent - घटिया, तुच्छ, साधारण, उदासीन

quasi - लगभग, नाम का

maternal - मातृ, मातृसुलभ, मातृवंशी, मातृक

affection - स्नेह, प्यार

For he was difficult to dispose of, that boy. He was delicate and, in a frail way, good-looking too, except for the vacant droop of his lower lip. Under our excellent system of compulsory education he had learned to read and write, notwithstanding the unfavourable aspect of the lower lip. But as errand-boy he did not turn out a great success.

dispose - सजाना, ठीक रखना, ठिकाने लगाना

frail - कमजोर

vacant - खाली, विचार शून्य, रिक्त

droop - झुकना, लटकन, कुम्हलाना

compulsory education - अनिवार्य शिक्षा

notwithstanding - फिर भी, के बावजूद, तथापि, तब भी

unfavourable - अशुभ, प्रतिकूल, नकारात्मक

errand - दूतकार्य

He forgot his messages; he was easily diverted from the straight path of duty by the attractions of stray cats and dogs, which he followed down narrow alleys into unsavoury courts; by the comedies of the streets, which he contemplated open-mouthed, to the detriment of his employer's interests; or by the dramas of fallen horses, whose pathos and violence induced him sometimes to shriek pierceingly in a crowd, which disliked to be disturbed by sounds of distress in its quiet enjoyment of the national spectacle. When led away by a grave and protecting policeman, it would often become apparent that poor Stevie had forgotten his address-at least for a time. A brusque question caused him to stutter to the point of suffocation. When startled by anything perplexing he used to squint horribly. However, he never had any fits (which was encouraging); and before the natural outbursts of impatience on the part of his father he could always, in his childhood's days, run for protection behind the short skirts of his sister Winnie. On the other hand, he might have been suspected of hiding a fund of reckless naughtiness. When he had reached the age of fourteen a friend of his late father, an agent for a foreign preserved milk firm, having given him an opening as office-boy, he was discovered one foggy afternoon, in his chief's absence, busy letting off fireworks on the staircase. He touched off in quick succession a set of fierce rockets, angry catherine wheels, loudly exploding squibs-and the matter might have turned out very serious. An awful panic spread through the whole building. Wild-eyed, choking clerks stampeded through the passages full of smoke, silk hats and elderly business men could be seen rolling independently down the stairs. Stevie did not seem to derive any personal gratification from what he had done. His motives for this stroke of originality were difficult to discover. It was only later on that Winnie obtained from him a misty and confused confession. It seems that two other office-boys in the building had worked upon his feelings by tales of injustice and oppression till they had wrought his compassion to the pitch of that frenzy. But his father's friend, of course, dismissed him summarily as likely to ruin his business. After that altruistic exploit Stevie was put to help wash the dishes in the basement kitchen, and to black the boots of the gentlemen patronising the Belgravian mansion. There was obviously no future in such work. The gentlemen tipped him a shilling now and then. Mr Verloc showed himself the most generous of lodgers. But altogether all that did not amount to much either in the way of gain or prospects; so that when Winnie announced her engagement to Mr Verloc her mother could not help wondering, with a sigh and a glance towards the scullery, what would become of poor Stephen now.

diverted - मनोरंजन करना

stray - भ्रमण करना, विषय से हट जाना

alleys - गली, पगडण्डी, वीथिका

unsavoury - अस्वादिष्ट, बदबूदार, घृणित

contemplated - विचार करना, विचार करना

detriment - हानि

pathos - करुण रस, कारुणिकता, करुण रस

induced - लाना, प्रेरित करना

shriek - चीखना, चिल्लाना, ठहाका लगाना

distress - दुःख होना, कठिनाई, दुःख होना

spectacle - प्रदर्शन, तमाशा, दृश्य, चश्मा

grave - कब्र

brusque - अशिष्ट, रूखा, अशिष्ट/रूखा

stutter - हकलाहट, हकलापन, कंठभंग

suffocation - दम घुटना, श्वासरोध, निःश्वास रोध

startled - चकित, चौंक जाना, चौंकाना

perplexing - हैरान करना, व्याकुल करना

squint - नज़र, तिरछा, भेंगा

horribly - भयंकर रूपसे, बुरी तरह से

outbursts - प्रकोप, आवेग, प्रक्षोभ, समुद्घात

Impatience - अधैर्यता, अधीरता, असहिष्णुता

reckless - लापरवाह, असावधान, अविचारी

naughtiness - शरारतपन

foggy - कोहरेदार, भ्रमपूर्ण, धुँधला

absence - अनुपस्थिति

letting off - छोड़ रहा है

staircase - सीढ़ी, सोपान

succession - उत्तराधिकार, सिलसिला, ताँता

fierce - भारी, घमासान, उत्तेजित, तीव्र

Catherine - female given name

squibs - फुलझड़ी

choking - चोक, सांस रूकना

stampeded - भागना, जोर देना, भगदड़ मचाना

independently - अलग अलग, स्वतंत्र रूप से

gratification - खुशी, आनन्द, संतोष, संतुष्टि

motives - प्रेरक, प्रयोजन, उद्देश्य, कारण

originality - असलियत, मौलिकता, नवीनता

misty - कोहरे से आच्छादित

confession - इक़रार, इकरार

feelings - भावना, अहसास, जज्बात

injustice - जफा, अन्याय

oppression - ज़ुल्म, उत्पीड़न

compassion - दया, करुणा

frenzy - पागलपन, उन्माद

summarily - बिना देरी किए, फ़ौरन ही

altruistic - परोपकारी, परार्थवादी

patronising - संरक्षण देना

mansion - हवेली, महल

shilling - 1971 तक ब्रिटेन में प्रचलित एक सिक्का, (shill) 1971 तक ब्रिटेन में प्रचलित एक सिक्का

most generous - सबसे दयालु

sigh - आह भरना

scullery - बर्तन माँजने की जगह

It appeared that Mr Verloc was ready to take him over together with his wife's mother and with the furniture, which was the whole visible fortune of the family. Mr Verloc gathered everything as it came to his broad, good-natured breast. The furniture was disposed to the best advantage all over the house, but Mrs Verloc's mother was confined to two back rooms on the first floor.

good-natured - (good-natured) अच्छे स्वभाव

disposed - सजाना, ठीक रखना, ठिकाने लगाना

confined - कैद रखना, सीमा, सीमीत रखना

The luckless Stevie slept in one of them. By this time a growth of thin fluffy hair had come to blur, like a golden mist, the sharp line of his small lower jaw. He helped his sister with blind love and docility in her household duties. Mr Verloc thought that some occupation would be good for him. His spare time he occupied by drawing circles with compass and pencil on a piece of paper.

luckless - अभागा

fluffy - मुलायम, फूला हुआ, नरम

blur - धब्बा, विकृत करना, धुंधला करना

mist - धुंध

lower jaw - नीचे का जॉ

docility - आज्ञापरायणता

compass - कम्पास, कुतुबनुमा

He applied himself to that pastime with great industry, with his elbows spread out and bowed low over the kitchen table. Through the open door of the parlour at the back of the shop Winnie, his sister, glanced at him from time to time with maternal vigilance.

pastime - मनोरंजन, मन्बहलाव, शौक्*अ

bowed - झुकाना, सिर झुकाना, गलही

glanced - चमकना, ग्लांस करना, नजर डालना

vigilance - सतर्कता, दक्षता, सावधानी

CHAPTER II

Such was the house, the household, and the business Mr Verloc left behind him on his way westward at the hour of half-past ten in the morning.

westward - पश्चिम, पश्चिम की ओर

It was unusually early for him; his whole person exhaled the charm of almost dewy freshness; he wore his blue cloth overcoat unbuttoned; his boots were shiny; his cheeks, freshly shaven, had a sort of gloss; and even his heavy-lidded eyes, refreshed by a night of peaceful slumber, sent out glances of comparative alertness.

unusually - अप्रायिक रूप से, असमान्यतः

exhaled - श्वास छोड़ना, श्वास छोड़ना

charm - सुंदरता

dewy - ओस से भीगा, ओस से भीगा

freshness - शीतलता, ताज़गी

overcoat - ओवरकोट, लबादा

unbuttoned - बटन खोलना, बटन खोलना

freshly - ढिठाई से, धृष्टतापूर्वक

gloss - चमक

refreshed - फिर से भरना, ताजा करना

slumber - सोना, अल्पनिद्रा, नींद

glances - चमकना, ग्लांस करना, नजर डालना

alertness - सतर्कता

Through the park railings these glances beheld men and women riding in the Row, couples cantering past harmoniously, others advancing sedately at a walk, loitering groups of three or four, solitary horsemen looking unsociable, and solitary women followed at a long distance by a groom with a cockade to his hat and a leather belt over his tight-fitting coat.

beheld - निहारना

Row - झगड़ा

cantering - सरपट, कदम चाल, कदम चाल चलाना

harmoniously - सद्भावपूर्ण ढंग से, तालमेल से

sedately - संयत ढंग से, गम्भीरता से

loitering - आवारागर्दी, (loiter) आवारागर्दी

solitary - अकेला

horsemen - अश्वारोही, घुड़सवार

unsociable - ग़ैरमिलनसार, असमाजशील

groom - साईस

cockade - a rosette worn in a hat as an office or party badge

leather belt - चमड़े का बंदर

Carriages went bowling by, mostly two-horse broughams, with here and there a victoria with the skin of some wild beast inside and a woman's face and hat emerging above the folded hood. And a peculiarly London sun-against which nothing could be said except that it looked bloodshot-glorified all this by its stare.

carriages - बच्चा गाड़ी, आचरण, चाल, वाहक

broughams - बंद घोड़ागाड़ी, बंद घोड़ागाड़ी

Victoria - विक्टोरिया

beast - वहश, जानवर, हैवान, जंतु

hood - सिर गर्दन ढकने के लिये टोपी या चोगा

peculiarly - अजीब तरह से, विशेष रुप से

bloodshot - क़िरमिज़ी

glorified - गौरवान्वित करना, गुणगान करना

It hung at a moderate elevation above Hyde Park Corner with an air of punctual and benign vigilance. The very pavement under Mr Verloc's feet had an old-gold tinge in that diffused light, in which neither wall, nor tree, nor beast, nor man cast a shadow. Mr Verloc was going westward through a town without shadows in an atmosphere of powdered old gold.

moderate - औसत दर्जे का, कम, कम होना

elevation - ऊँचा स्थान, उन्नति, ऊँचाई

punctual - समयनिष्ठ, समयनिष्ट, पाबंद

benign - हितकारी, वांछित, दयालु, सौम्य

pavement - पटरी, छज्जा, फर्श

tinge - झलक, भर देना, रंग देना

diffused - फैला हुआ, व्याप्त होना

There were red, coppery gleams on the roofs of houses, on the corners of walls, on the panels of carriages, on the very coats of the horses, and on the broad back of Mr Verloc's overcoat, where they produced a dull effect of rustiness. But Mr Verloc was not in the least conscious of having got rusty.

coppery - तांबई, ताम्रवर्ण

gleams - झलक, चमचमाना, चमकना, किरण

rustiness - रस्सी

rusty - पुराना, जंग लगा, मंद

He surveyed through the park railings the evidences of the town's opulence and luxury with an approving eye. All these people had to be protected. Protection is the first necessity of opulence and luxury.

opulence - समृद्धि, ऐश्वर्य, रईसी

They had to be protected; and their horses, carriages, houses, servants had to be protected; and the source of their wealth had to be protected in the heart of the city and the heart of the country; the whole social order favourable to their hygienic idleness had to be protected against the shallow enviousness of unhygienic labour.

favourable - हितकारी, अनुकूल, स्विकाराट्मक

idleness - आलस्य, अलकस

enviousness - क्रोध

unhygienic - अस्वास्थ्यकर

It had to-and Mr Verloc would have rubbed his hands with satisfaction had he not been constitutionally averse from every superfluous exertion. His idleness was not hygienic, but it suited him very well. He was in a manner devoted to it with a sort of inert fanaticism, or perhaps rather with a fanatical inertness.

constitutionally - सम्वैधानिक रूप से

averse - अनिच्छुक, अनिच्छुक९, असम्मत

superfluous - निरर्थक, अतिरिक्त, अनावश्यक

exertion - प्रयास, परिश्रम, श्रम

hygienic - स्वास्थ्यकर

fanaticism - कट्टरपन/हठधर्म, कट्टरपन

fanatical - कट्टर, कट्टरता

inertness - जड़ता

Born of industrious parents for a life of toil, he had embraced indolence from an impulse as profound as inexplicable and as imperious as the impulse which directs a man's preference for one particular woman in a given thousand. He was too lazy even for a mere demagogue, for a workman orator, for a leader of labour. It was too much trouble.

industrious - परिश्रमी, मेहनती

toil - कठिन परिश्रम करना, परिश्रम

indolence - अकर्मण्यता, सुस्ती

impulse - आवेग

profound - गहन, गहरा, पारंगत, अथाह, गाढ़ा

inexplicable - दुरूह, व्याख्या न करने योग्य

imperious - उद्धत, दंभपूर्ण

mere - केवल

demagogue - जनोत्तेजक नेता, दलपति

workman - मजदूर

orator - वक्ता

He required a more perfect form of ease; or it might have been that he was the victim of a philosophical unbelief in the effectiveness of every human effort. Such a form of indolence requires, implies, a certain amount of intelligence.

philosophical - शांतचित्त, दार्शनिक

unbelief - अविश्वास, विश्वासहीनता

effectiveness - प्रभावकारिता, फल साधना

Mr Verloc was not devoid of intelligence-and at the notion of a menaced social order he would perhaps have winked to himself if there had not been an effort to make in that sign of scepticism. His big, prominent eyes were not well adapted to winking. They were rather of the sort that closes solemnly in slumber with majestic effect.

devoid - रहित

menaced - हानिकारक, धमकी

winked - टिमटिमाना, आँख मारना, आँख झपकना

scepticism - संशयवाद, अविश्वास

winking - आँख मारना, पलक झपकना

solemnly - in a solemn manner

majestic - शानदार, तेजस्वी, राजसी, भव्य

Undemonstrative and burly in a fat-pig style, Mr Verloc, without either rubbing his hands with satisfaction or winking sceptically at his thoughts, proceeded on his way. He trod the pavement heavily with his shiny boots, and his general get-up was that of a well-to-do mechanic in business for himself.

undemonstrative - अप्रदर्शनशील

burly - स्थूल

sceptically - संशयपूर्ण ढंग से

thoughts - विचार, मत, इरादा, विचारधारा

trod - ट्रॉड, (tread) ट्रॉड

He might have been anything from a picture-frame maker to a lock-smith; an employer of labour in a small way.

picture-frame - (picture-frame) फ़ोटो फ्रेम

Maker - बनाने वाला, ईश्वर, रचनाकार

Smith - लोहार r=lohār

But there was also about him an indescribable air which no mechanic could have acquired in the practice of his handicraft however dishonestly exercised: the air common to men who live on the vices, the follies, or the baser fears of mankind; the air of moral nihilism common to keepers of gambling hells and disorderly houses; to private detectives and inquiry agents; to drink sellers and, I should say, to the sellers of invigorating electric belts and to the inventors of patent medicines. But of that last I am not sure, not having carried my investigations so far into the depths. For all I know, the expression of these last may be perfectly diabolic. I shouldn't be surprised. What I want to affirm is that Mr Verloc's expression was by no means diabolic.

indescribable - अनिर्वचनीय, अवर्णनीय

handicraft - हस्तशिल्प, हस्तकला, हस्त शिल्प

dishonestly - बेईमानी से, बेईमानी से

vices - अवगुण, दुराचार, शिकंजा

follies - मूर्खता, फ़ली, ignorance

mankind - मानवता, आदमज़ाद, मानवजाति

nihilism - नाइलीज़्म, निषेधवाद, विनाशवाद

keepers - रक्षक{रखवाली करने वाला}, रक्षक

gambling - द्यूत, किमार, जूआ

disorderly - अव्यवस्थित

inquiry - जाँच, सर्वेक्षण, अन्वेषण

sellers - विक्रेता, बैकर्ता

invigorating - बलवर्धन करना, पुष्ट करना

inventors - आविष्कारक

affirm - दृढतापूर्वक कहना

diabolic - क्रूर, पैशाचिक

Before reaching Knightsbridge, Mr Verloc took a turn to the left out of the busy main thoroughfare, uproarious with the traffic of swaying omnibuses and trotting vans, in the almost silent, swift flow of hansoms. Under his hat, worn with a slight backward tilt, his hair had been carefully brushed into respectful sleekness; for his business was with an Embassy.

thoroughfare - t-needed i

uproarious - कोलाहलपूर्ण, हास्यकर

swaying - झुकाव, (sway) झुकाव

omnibuses - सर्वसंग्रह कार्यक्रम

trotting - ट्रॉटिंग, (trot) ट्रॉटिंग

swift - द्रुतगामी, तुरन्त

hansoms - बग्घी, घोड़ा गाड़ी

backward - पीछे की ओर का, उल्टा, पिछड़ा हुआ

tilt - झुकना

respectful - विनीत, आदरपुर्ण, भध्र

sleekness - चिकनापन

embassy - दूतावास, राजदूतावास

And Mr Verloc, steady like a rock-a soft kind of rock-marched now along a street which could with every propriety be described as private. In its breadth, emptiness, and extent it had the majesty of inorganic nature, of matter that never dies. The only reminder of mortality was a doctor's brougham arrested in august solitude close to the curbstone.

propriety - मर्यादा, औचित्यअ, शिष्टाचार

breadth - फ़ासला, विशालता, विस्तार

emptiness - शून्य, खालीपन, शून्यता

Majesty - तेजस्विता, गरिमा, प्रताप, विभूति

inorganic - अकार्बनिक, अजैव, जड

reminder - स्मरण पत्र, तकाज़ा, अनुस्मारक

mortality - नश्वरता, मृत्यु संख्या

brougham - बंद घोड़ागाड़ी, बंद घोड़ागाड़ी

solitude - एकांत, विरानी, अकेलापन, खिलवत

curbstone - कोर पत्थर

The polished knockers of the doors gleamed as far as the eye could reach, the clean windows shone with a dark opaque lustre. And all was still. But a milk cart rattled noisily across the distant perspective; a butcher boy, driving with the noble recklessness of a charioteer at Olympic Games, dashed round the corner sitting high above a pair of red wheels.

polished - चमकाना, चमक, रोगन करना

knockers - कुंडी, आलोचक, वक्षअ

gleamed - झलक, चमचमाना, चमकना, किरण

opaque - अस्पष्ट, अपारदर्शी

lustre - चमक

cart - छकड़ा गाड़ी, गाड़ी

rattled - खनखनाना, घबड़ा देना, खनखनाहट

noisily - शोर शराबे के साथ

butcher - कसाई, बूचड़, (butch) कसाई

noble - बहुत अच्छा, उतम, शानदार

recklessness - लापरवाही

charioteer - सारथी

Olympic - ओलिंपिक

dashed - मिश्रण, टक्कर, टकराना, झलक

A guilty-looking cat issuing from under the stones ran for a while in front of Mr Verloc, then dived into another basement; and a thick police constable, looking a stranger to every emotion, as if he too were part of inorganic nature, surging apparently out of a lamp-post, took not the slightest notice of Mr Verloc.

police constable - पुलिस कांस्टेबल

surging - प्रेरणा, (surge) प्रेरणा

With a turn to the left Mr Verloc pursued his way along a narrow street by the side of a yellow wall which, for some inscrutable reason, had No. 1 Chesham Square written on it in black letters. Chesham Square was at least sixty yards away, and Mr Verloc, cosmopolitan enough not to be deceived by London's topographical mysteries, held on steadily, without a sign of surprise or indignation.

inscrutable - रहस्यमय, गूढ

Cosmopolitan - सर्वव्यापी

be deceived - भ्रमित होना

indignation - रोष, क्रोध/रोष, नाराज़गी

At last, with business-like persistency, he reached the Square, and made diagonally for the number 10.

persistency - दृढ़ता

diagonally - तिरछा, विकर्णतः

This belonged to an imposing carriage gate in a high, clean wall between two houses, of which one rationally enough bore the number 9 and the other was numbered 37; but the fact that this last belonged to Porthill Street, a street well known in the neighbourhood, was proclaimed by an inscription placed above the ground-floor windows by whatever highly efficient authority is charged with the duty of keeping track of London's strayed houses. Why powers are not asked of Parliament (a short act would do) for compelling those edifices to return where they belong is one of the mysteries of municipal administration. Mr Verloc did not trouble his head about it, his mission in life being the protection of the social mechanism, not its perfectionment or even its criticism.

carriage - गाड़ी

rationally - तर्कसंगत ढंग से, विवेक से

proclaimed - प्रमाणित करना, प्रशंसा करना

inscription - शिलालेख

strayed - इधर उधर भटकना, भटक जाना

compelling - undefined

edifices - भवन

municipal administration - नगर प्रशासन

It was so early that the porter of the Embassy issued hurriedly out of his lodge still struggling with the left sleeve of his livery coat. His waistcoat was red, and he wore knee-breeches, but his aspect was flustered. Mr Verloc, aware of the rush on his flank, drove it off by simply holding out an envelope stamped with the arms of the Embassy, and passed on.

hurriedly - in a hurried manner

Lodge - रखना, जमा करना, मकान, दायर करना

sleeve - आस्तीन, बाँह

livery - पोशाक, वर्दी

waistcoat - वास्कट

knee-breeches - (knee-breeches) नी ब्रीचेज

flustered - घबरा देना, घबड़ाना, घबड़ाहट

flank - मकान का किनारा, बीच में

He produced the same talisman also to the footman who opened the door, and stood back to let him enter the hall.

talisman - तिलिस्म, तिलस्म, मंगल

footman - नौकर, वर्दीधारी सेवक

stood back - पीछे हट गया

A clear fire burned in a tall fireplace, and an elderly man standing with his back to it, in evening dress and with a chain round his neck, glanced up from the newspaper he was holding spread out in both hands before his calm and severe face.

fireplace - चिमनी

evening dress - सांस्कृतिक वस्त्र

He didn't move; but another lackey, in brown trousers and claw-hammer coat edged with thin yellow cord, approaching Mr Verloc listened to the murmur of his name, and turning round on his heel in silence, began to walk, without looking back once.

lackey - नौकर, पिछलगा

claw - पंजा

hammer - हथौड़ा, (ham)

cord - डोरी, बिजली का तार

murmur - बड़बड़ाना, सरसराहट, बड़बड़ाहट

turning round - घुमना

Mr Verloc, thus led along a ground-floor passage to the left of the great carpeted staircase, was suddenly motioned to enter a quite small room furnished with a heavy writing-table and a few chairs. The servant shut the door, and Mr Verloc remained alone. He did not take a seat.

With his hat and stick held in one hand he glanced about, passing his other podgy hand over his uncovered sleek head.

podgy - छोटा और मोटा, थुलथुल

uncovered - पर्दा दूर कर, बता देना, खोलना

sleek - चिकना, आकर्षक, चिकना बनाना

Another door opened noiselessly, and Mr Verloc immobilising his glance in that direction saw at first only black clothes, the bald top of a head, and a drooping dark grey whisker on each side of a pair of wrinkled hands. The person who had entered was holding a batch of papers before his eyes and walked up to the table with a rather mincing step, turning the papers over the while.

noiselessly - बिना आवाज़ किये

immobilising - गतिहीन कर देना, गतिहीन कर देना

bald - गंजा

drooping - झुकना, लटकन, कुम्हलाना

whisker - गलमुच्छा, मूँछ

wrinkled - सिकोड़ना, छोटी मोटी समस्या

batch - जत्था

mincing - कोमल, नाज़ुक, (mince)

privy councillor Wurmt, Chancelier d'Ambassade, was rather short-sighted. This meritorious official laying the papers on the table, disclosed a face of pasty complexion and of melancholy ugliness surrounded by a lot of fine, long dark grey hairs, barred heavily by thick and bushy eyebrows.

privy councillor - प्रिवी मंत्री

meritorious - सराहनीय, गुणी

disclosed - बताना, दिखाना, प्रकट करना

pasty - मिठाई, पेस्टी

melancholy - निराशाजनक, उदासी की अवस्था

ugliness - चिड़चिड़ापन, भद्दापन, कुरूपता

bushy - घना, झाड़ीदार

eyebrows - भौंह, भौं

He put on a black-framed pince-nez upon a blunt and shapeless nose, and seemed struck by Mr Verloc's appearance. Under the enormous eyebrows his weak eyes blinked pathetically through the glasses.

blunt - कुंद

shapeless - आकारहीन, भद्दा, बेडौल

blinked - टिमटिमाना, आँख झपकना, पलक झपकना

pathetically - बहुत ही, बहुत ही

He made no sign of greeting; neither did Mr Verloc, who certainly knew his place; but a subtle change about the general outlines of his shoulders and back suggested a slight bending of Mr Verloc's spine under the vast surface of his overcoat. The effect was of unobtrusive deference.

subtle - हल्का, जटिल, कुशाग्र, तीक्ष्ण

spine - मेरुदण्ड, रीढ़ की हड्डी

unobtrusive - सतर्क, प्रच्छन्न, विनीत

deference - सम्मान, आदर करना

"I have here some of your reports," said the bureaucrat in an unexpectedly soft and weary voice, and pressing the tip of his forefinger on the papers with force. He paused; and Mr Verloc, who had recognised his own handwriting very well, waited in an almost breathless silence.

bureaucrat - नौकरशाह r=naukraśāh, अफ़सर

unexpectedly - अचानक, अकस्मात

weary - थकाना, उकता देना, उबाऊ

forefinger - देशिनी, तर्जनी अँगुली, तर्जनी

recognised - स्वीकार करना, पहचानना

handwriting - हस्तलिपि

breathless - हँफा देनेवाली, स्तब्ध, बेदम

"We are not very satisfied with the attitude of the police here," the other continued, with every appearance of mental fatigue.

fatigue - थकान

The shoulders of Mr Verloc, without actually moving, suggested a shrug. And for the first time since he left his home that morning his lips opened.

shrug - कंधे उचकाना, कंधे उचकाना

"Every country has its police," he said philosophically. But as the official of the Embassy went on blinking at him steadily he felt constrained to add: "Allow me to observe that I have no means of action upon the police here."

philosophically - दार्शनिक ढंग से

blinking at - चिंकना

constrained - विवश करना, बाधित करना

"What is desired," said the man of papers, "is the occurrence of something definite which should stimulate their vigilance. That is within your province-is it not so?"

Occurrence - घटना, उपस्थिति

province - प्रांत, प्रदेश

Mr Verloc made no answer except by a sigh, which escaped him involuntarily, for instantly he tried to give his face a cheerful expression. The official blinked doubtfully, as if affected by the dim light of the room. He repeated vaguely.

involuntarily - सितारा मछली, अनिच्छा से

doubtfully - संदेहपूर्ण ढंग से

dim - धुंधला

vaguely - अस्पष्टतः, संदिग्धतः

"The vigilance of the police-and the severity of the magistrates. The general leniency of the judicial procedure here, and the utter absence of all repressive measures, are a scandal to Europe. What is wished for just now is the accentuation of the unrest-of the fermentation which undoubtedly exists-"

magistrates - दण्डाधिकारी

leniency - नरमी, सदयता/नरमी

judicial - न्यायिक

utter - पूर्ण

repressive - दमनकारी, दमनात्मक

accentuation - स्वराघात, बलाघात, स्वरांकन

unrest - अशांति, अशान्ति/व्यस्तता

fermentation - उत्तेजना, सिर्का, खमीरण, किण्वन

Undoubtedly - निश्चित रूप से

"Undoubtedly, undoubtedly," broke in Mr Verloc in a deep deferential bass of an oratorical quality, so utterly different from the tone in which he had spoken before that his interlocutor remained profoundly surprised. "It exists to a dangerous degree. My reports for the last twelve months make it sufficiently clear."

bass - मन्द्र

oratorical - भाषण विषयक, भाषण विषयक

utterly - नितान्त, पूर्ण रूप से

interlocutor - वार्तालापी

profoundly - पूरी तरह से, पूर्णतया, नितान्त

"Your reports for the last twelve months," State Councillor Wurmt began in his gentle and dispassionate tone, "have been read by me. I failed to discover why you wrote them at all."

councillor - पार्षद्, सभासद/{सभा का} सदस्य

dispassionate - निष्पक्ष, निःसंग

A sad silence reigned for a time. Mr Verloc seemed to have swallowed his tongue, and the other gazed at the papers on the table fixedly. At last he gave them a slight push.

reigned - शासन, आधिपत्य करना, शासन करना

gazed - एक्टक देखने ताला, टकटकी

fixedly - दृढतापूर्वक

"The state of affairs you expose there is assumed to exist as the first condition of your employment. What is required at present is not writing, but the bringing to light of a distinct, significant fact-I would almost say of an alarming fact."

"I need not say that all my endeavours shall be directed to that end," Mr Verloc said, with convinced modulations in his conversational husky tone. But the sense of being blinked at watchfully behind the blind glitter of these eye-glasses on the other side of the table disconcerted him. He stopped short with a gesture of absolute devotion.

endeavours - प्रयत्न, प्रयत्न करना

modulations - ठीक करना, ठीक करना

conversational - बातचीत संबन्धी, संवादोचित

husky - भर्रायी हुई आवाज

blinked at - आँखों से झपकाया

watchfully - सतर्कतापूर्वक

glitter - चमक

devotion - भक्ति, निष्ठा

The useful, hard-working, if obscure member of the Embassy had an air of being impressed by some newly-born thought.

"You are very corpulent," he said.

corpulent - गोल मटोल, मोटा, मोटा तथा भारी

This observation, really of a psychological nature, and advanced with the modest hesitation of an officeman more familiar with ink and paper than with the requirements of active life, stung Mr Verloc in the manner of a rude personal remark. He stepped back a pace.

hesitation - हिचक, हिचकिचाहट, हिचकीचाहट

stung - उकसाना, प्रेरित करना, दर्द होना

"Eh? What were you pleased to say?" he exclaimed, with husky resentment.

eh - used as a tag question

exclaimed - चिल्लाना, चिल्लाकर कहना

resentment - क्रोध, विद्वेष, नाराज़ग्

The Chancelier d'Ambassade entrusted with the conduct of this interview seemed to find it too much for him.

entrusted - सौंपना, सौंप देना

"I think," he said, "that you had better see Mr Vladimir. Yes, decidedly I think you ought to see Mr Vladimir. Be good enough to wait here," he added, and went out with mincing steps.

decidedly - निश्चित रूप से, निश्चित रुप से

At once Mr Verloc passed his hand over his hair. A slight perspiration had broken out on his forehead. He let the air escape from his pursed-up lips like a man blowing at a spoonful of hot soup. But when the servant in brown appeared at the door silently, Mr Verloc had not moved an inch from the place he had occupied throughout the interview.

perspiration - पसीना, स्वेद

forehead - माथा, माथ, ललाट

pursed - बटुआ, सिकोड़ना, इनाम की राशि

blowing at - हवा में फेंकना

spoonful - चम्मच, चम्मच भर

silently - खामोशी से, चुपचाप

He had remained motionless, as if feeling himself surrounded by pitfalls.

pitfalls - कठिनाई, छिपी हुई दिक्कत

He walked along a passage lighted by a lonely gas-jet, then up a flight of winding stairs, and through a glazed and cheerful corridor on the first floor. The footman threw open a door, and stood aside. The feet of Mr Verloc felt a thick carpet.

flight of winding stairs - विन्डिंग स्टेयर्स की उड़ान

The room was large, with three windows; and a young man with a shaven, big face, sitting in a roomy arm-chair before a vast mahogany writing-table, said in French to the Chancelier d'Ambassade, who was going out with the papers in his hand:

roomy - विशाल, जगहदार, बड़ा, विस्तीर्ण

arm-chair - (arm-chair) आर्म कुर्सी

mahogany - महोगनी

"You are quite right, mon cher. He's fat-the animal."

mon - सोमवार

Mr Vladimir, First Secretary, had a drawing-room reputation as an agreeable and entertaining man. He was something of a favourite in society.

agreeable - रजामंद

His wit consisted in discovering droll connections between incongruous ideas; and when talking in that strain he sat well forward of his seat, with his left hand raised, as if exhibiting his funny demonstrations between the thumb and forefinger, while his round and clean-shaven face wore an expression of merry perplexity.

wit - हाजिर-जवाबी

droll - oddly humorous, whimsical

incongruous - बेतुका, असंगत

strain - तनना, तानना, खींचना

merry - आनन्दपूर्ण

perplexity - जटिलता, घबराहट, हैरानी, टिलता

But there was no trace of merriment or perplexity in the way he looked at Mr Verloc. Lying far back in the deep arm-chair, with squarely spread elbows, and throwing one leg over a thick knee, he had with his smooth and rosy countenance the air of a preternaturally thriving baby that will not stand nonsense from anybody.

merriment - विनोद r=vinod

squarely - उचित रूप से

rosy - उज्ज्वल, गुलाबी, सुहाना

countenance - समर्थन, मुखाकृति, अनुमोदन करना

thriving - बढ़ता

nonsense - बकवास

"You understand French, I suppose?" he said.

Mr Verloc stated huskily that he did. His whole vast bulk had a forward inclination. He stood on the carpet in the middle of the room, clutching his hat and stick in one hand; the other hung lifelessly by his side. He muttered unobtrusively somewhere deep down in his throat something about having done his military service in the French artillery.

huskily - भारी आवाज़ में, कर्कश आवाज़ से

bulk - शरीर, रेशेदार तत्व, दिखना

inclination - रुचि, झुकाव, शौक, ढाल, पसंद

clutching - क्लच, अण्डो का समुच्चय

lifelessly - lifelessly

unobtrusively - सहज रूप से, सहज रूप से

Artillery - तोपख़ाना, आर्टिलरी

At once, with contemptuous perversity, Mr Vladimir changed the language, and began to speak idiomatic English without the slightest trace of a foreign accent.

contemptuous - तिरस्कारपूर्ण, अवज्ञाकारी

perversity - उद्दण्डता, दुष्टता, विकृति

idiomatic - मुहावरेदार

"Ah! Yes. Of course. Let's see. How much did you get for obtaining the design of the improved breech-block of their new field-gun?"

breech - पेंदा, नालपृष्ठ

"Five years'rigorous confinement in a fortress," Mr Verloc answered unexpectedly, but without any sign of feeling.

rigorous - सही, सख्त, कड़ी, परिशुद्ध

confinement - सीमाबद्ध, प्रसव का समय, प्रसूति

fortress - गढ़ी, क़िला, दुर्ग

"You got off easily," was Mr Vladimir's comment. "And, anyhow, it served you right for letting yourself get caught. What made you go in for that sort of thing-eh?"

anyhow - किसी भी तरह, फिर भी

Mr Verloc's husky conversational voice was heard speaking of youth, of a fatal infatuation for an unworthy-

fatal - जीवघातक, घातक, प्राणांतक

infatuation - प्रेमांधता, आसक्ति

unworthy - कुपात्र, अनुचित, अनधिकारी

"Aha! Cherchez la femme," Mr Vladimir deigned to interrupt, unbending, but without affability; there was, on the contrary, a touch of grimness in his condescension. "How long have you been employed by the Embassy here?" he asked.

Aha - आहा

la - ला

femme - महिला

deigned - अपने को अत्यधिक महत्व देना

unbending - आराम दे, सीधा करना, सीधा होना

affability - सुशीलता, सौजन्यता, मिलन्सारी

contrary - प्रतिकूल, उलटा, विपरीत, ज़िद्दी

grimness - कठोरता, विकटता, कठिनाई

condescension - नम्रता, कृपालुता, सौजन्य

"Ever since the time of the late Baron Stott-Wartenheim," Mr Verloc answered in subdued tones, and protruding his lips sadly, in sign of sorrow for the deceased diplomat. The First Secretary observed this play of physiognomy steadily.

Baron - शक्तिशाली उद्योगपति, बैरन

subdued - रोकना, शान्त करना, वस में लाना

protruding - बाहर निकला हुआ होना

sorrow - दुःख, उदासी, शोक, ग़म

deceased - मृत्यु, स्वर्गवास होना, मर जाना

diplomat - कूटनीतिज्ञ, राजनयिक, राजदूत

physiognomy - आकृति विज्ञान, अंगविद्या

"Ah! ever since. Well! What have you got to say for yourself?" he asked sharply.

sharply - कटुतापूर्वक, तीक्ष्णता से

Mr Verloc answered with some surprise that he was not aware of having anything special to say. He had been summoned by a letter-And he plunged his hand busily into the side pocket of his overcoat, but before the mocking, cynical watchfulness of Mr Vladimir, concluded to leave it there.

summoned - बुलाना, इकट्ठा करना, तैयार रखना

busily - व्यस्ततापूर्वक

side pocket - साइड पॉकेट

mocking - उपहासपूर्ण, छेड़ छाड़ से भरा

cynical - स्वार्थी, दोषदर्षी, चिड़चिड़ा आदमी

watchfulness - सतर्क दृष्टि, सतर्कता

"Bah!" said that latter. "What do you mean by getting out of condition like this? You haven't got even the physique of your profession. You-a member of a starving proletariat-never! You-a desperate socialist or anarchist-which is it?"

Bah - छिः!

latter - अनुवर्ती, दूसरा

physique - शारीरिक गठन, कद काठी, शरीर गठन

proletariat - सर्वहारा

socialist - समाजवादी

anarchist - अराजकतावादी

"Anarchist," stated Mr Verloc in a deadened tone.

"Bosh!" went on Mr Vladimir, without raising his voice. "You startled old Wurmt himself. You wouldn't deceive an idiot. They all are that by-the-by, but you seem to me simply impossible. So you began your connection with us by stealing the French gun designs. And you got yourself caught. That must have been very disagreeable to our Government. You don't seem to be very smart."

bosh - अनाप शनापअ

deceive - धोखा देना

idiot - मूर्ख, बुद्धू, उल्लू, बेवक़ूफ़

disagreeable - अप्रिय, झगड़ालू

Mr Verloc tried to exculpate himself huskily.

exculpate - दोषमुक्त करना

"As I've had occasion to observe before, a fatal infatuation for an unworthy-"

Mr Vladimir raised a large white, plump hand. "Ah, yes. The unlucky attachment-of your youth. She got hold of the money, and then sold you to the police-eh?"

plump - मोटा, गोल-मटोल

unlucky - अशुभ, अभागा/दुखी/मंदभाग्य

The doleful change in Mr Verloc's physiognomy, the momentary drooping of his whole person, confessed that such was the regrettable case. Mr Vladimir's hand clasped the ankle reposing on his knee. The sock was of dark blue silk.

doleful - खिन्न

momentary - क्षणिक

regrettable - खेदजनक, खेदजनक शोचनीय

clasped - मजबूत पकड़, बकसुआ

reposing - आराम करना, शान्ति, आराम

"You see, that was not very clever of you. Perhaps you are too susceptible."

Mr Verloc intimated in a throaty, veiled murmur that he was no longer young.

intimated - बताना, घनिष्ठ, आत्मीय, सुपरिचित

throaty - भारी, भर्राया

veiled - घूंघट, पर्दा, आच्छादित करना

"Oh! That's a failing which age does not cure," Mr Vladimir remarked, with sinister familiarity. "But no! You are too fat for that. You could not have come to look like this if you had been at all susceptible. I'll tell you what I think is the matter: you are a lazy fellow. How long have you been drawing pay from this Embassy?"

sinister - अशुभ, डरावना

familiarity - हेल मेल, अंतरंगता

"Eleven years," was the answer, after a moment of sulky hesitation. "I've been charged with several missions to London while His Excellency Baron Stott-Wartenheim was still Ambassador in Paris. Then by his Excellency's instructions I settled down in London. I am English."

sulky - मंदगति, नाराज़, मनहूस, रुष्ट

excellency - महामान्य

ambassador - दूत, राजदूत

"You are! Are you? Eh?"

"A natural-born British subject," Mr Verloc said stolidly. "But my father was French, and so-"

stolidly - भावहीन ढंग से

"Never mind explaining," interrupted the other. "I daresay you could have been legally a Marshal of France and a Member of Parliament in England-and then, indeed, you would have been of some use to our Embassy."

daresay - कह सकते हैं

legally - कानूनन

Marshal - तैयार रखना, मारशलअ

This flight of fancy provoked something like a faint smile on Mr Verloc's face. Mr Vladimir retained an imperturbable gravity.

provoked - उत्तेजित करना, उत्पन्न करना

faint - अस्पष्ट

imperturbable - अविचलित

gravity - गुरुत्वाकर्षण

"But, as I've said, you are a lazy fellow; you don't use your opportunities. In the time of Baron Stott-Wartenheim we had a lot of soft-headed people running this Embassy. They caused fellows of your sort to form a false conception of the nature of a secret service fund. It is my business to correct this misapprehension by telling you what the secret service is not.

conception - धारणा, समझ, गर्भाधान, संकल्पना

misapprehension - भ्रम, गलतफ़हमी

It is not a philanthropic institution. I've had you called here on purpose to tell you this."

Mr Vladimir observed the forced expression of bewilderment on Verloc's face, and smiled sarcastically.

bewilderment - घबराहट

sarcastically - व्यंग्यात्मक ढंग से

"I see that you understand me perfectly. I daresay you are intelligent enough for your work. What we want now is activity-activity."

On repeating this last word Mr Vladimir laid a long white forefinger on the edge of the desk. Every trace of huskiness disappeared from Verloc's voice. The nape of his gross neck became crimson above the velvet collar of his overcoat. His lips quivered before they came widely open.

huskiness - मजबूती, भूसापन, आवाज़ का भारीपन

nape - गर्दन के पीछे का भाग

Gross - घटिया, भद्दा, अश्लील

crimson - क़िरमिज़ी

velvet - मख़मल

collar - कॉलर, गरेबान, गला

quivered - कंपन, तुणीर, झुरझुरी, तरकश, झपक

"If you'll only be good enough to look up my record," he boomed out in his great, clear oratorical bass, "you'll see I gave a warning only three months ago, on the occasion of the Grand Duke Romuald's visit to Paris, which was telegraphed from here to the French police, and-"

boomed - गरजना, धमाका, पालदंड

Duke - शासक

"Tut, tut!" broke out Mr Vladimir, with a frowning grimace. "The French police had no use for your warning. Don't roar like this. What the devil do you mean?"

frowning - त्योरी, तेवर, त्यौरी

grimace - मुख विरूपता, मुख विकृति

roar - गरजना, चिल्लाना, शोरगुल

devil - शैतान, दानव, राक्षस, देव

With a note of proud humility Mr Verloc apologised for forgetting himself. His voice,-famous for years at open-air meetings and at workmen's assemblies in large halls, had contributed, he said, to his reputation of a good and trustworthy comrade. It was, therefore, a part of his usefulness. It had inspired confidence in his principles.

humility - विनम्रता

apologised - क्षमा याचना करना

meetings - बैठक, सभा, मीटिंग, मुलाकात

workmen - श्रमिक, कारीगर, मजदूर

assemblies - जमघट, सभा, फिटिंग, सदन, सभाआ

trustworthy - विश्वासयोग्य, विश्वसनीय

comrade - साथी, कामरेड

usefulness - उपयोगिता

"I was always put up to speak by the leaders at a critical moment," Mr Verloc declared, with obvious satisfaction. There was no uproar above which he could not make himself heard, he added; and suddenly he made a demonstration.

uproar - ख़ुराफ़ात, बवाल, हल्ला, कोलाहल

"Allow me," he said. With lowered forehead, without looking up, swiftly and ponderously he crossed the room to one of the French windows. As if giving way to an uncontrollable impulse, he opened it a little.

lowered - छोटा, कम करना, गिरना, घटाना

Swiftly - तेज़ी से, तेज़ी से

ponderously - भद्दे ढंग से, नीरस ढंग से

uncontrollable - अदम्य, असहनीय, अनियंत्रणीय

Mr Vladimir, jumping up amazed from the depths of the arm-chair, looked over his shoulder; and below, across the courtyard of the Embassy, well beyond the open gate, could be seen the broad back of a policeman watching idly the gorgeous perambulator of a wealthy baby being wheeled in state across the Square.

courtyard - आंगन

idly - लक्ष्यहीन रूप से, आलस्यपूर्वक

perambulator - बच्चा गाड़ी

"Constable!" said Mr Verloc, with no more effort than if he were whispering; and Mr Vladimir burst into a laugh on seeing the policeman spin round as if prodded by a sharp instrument. Mr Verloc shut the window quietly, and returned to the middle of the room.

constable - चौकीदार/कान्स्टेबुल, कंस्टेबल

burst - फूटना

spin round - घुमाएँ

prodded - प्रेरित करना, चुभन, कोंच

"With a voice like that," he said, putting on the husky conversational pedal, "I was naturally trusted. And I knew what to say, too."

pedal - पेडल

Mr Vladimir, arranging his cravat, observed him in the glass over the mantelpiece.

cravat - गुलुबन्द{छोटा स्कार्फ जो गले में बाँध कर शर्ट के अन्दर रखते हैं}

mantelpiece - अग्निकोष्ठ के ऊपर का ताक

"I daresay you have the social revolutionary jargon by heart well enough," he said contemptuously. "Vox et. . . You haven't ever studied Latin-have you?"

revolutionary - क्रांतिकारी, इंक़िलाबी, इंक़लाबी

jargon - विशिष्ट शब्दावली

contemptuously - तिरस्कारपूर्वक

Vox - वॉक्स

et - Eastern Time

Latin - लैटिन

"No," growled Mr Verloc. "You did not expect me to know it. I belong to the million. Who knows Latin? Only a few hundred imbeciles who aren't fit to take care of themselves."

growled - गड़गड़ाहट, भुनभुनाना, गुर्राना

imbeciles - मूर्ख, अल्पबुद्धि

For some thirty seconds longer Mr Vladimir studied in the mirror the fleshy profile, the gross bulk, of the man behind him. And at the same time he had the advantage of seeing his own face, clean-shaved and round, rosy about the gills, and with the thin sensitive lips formed exactly for the utterance of those delicate witticisms which had made him such a favourite in the very highest society.

fleshy - मांसल, गूदेदार

gills - द्रव मापक, द्रव मापक, गलफड़ा

utterance - अभिव्यक्ति, कथन, उच्चारण/बातचीत

witticisms - हाज़िरजवाबी

Then he turned, and advanced into the room with such determination that the very ends of his quaintly old-fashioned bow necktie seemed to bristle with unspeakable menaces. The movement was so swift and fierce that Mr Verloc, casting an oblique glance, quailed inwardly.

quaintly - आदर्शवादी

bow - झुकना, झुकाना

necktie - नेकटाई

bristle - सूअर का बाल, फटा पड़ना

unspeakable - भद्दा, अनिर्वचनीय, अकथनीय

menaces - हानिकारक, धमकी

oblique glance - उलटी नजर

quailed - घबरा जाना, बटेर, लवा बटेर

inwardly - मन ही मन, मन मेँ

"Aha! You dare be impudent," Mr Vladimir began, with an amazingly guttural intonation not only utterly un-English, but absolutely un-European, and startling even to Mr Verloc's experience of cosmopolitan slums. "You dare! Well, I am going to speak plain English to you. Voice won't do. We have no use for your voice. We don't want a voice.

amazingly - आश्चर्यजनक रूप से

guttural - कण्ठ्य

intonation - स्वरोच्चारण, सुर

un - सं.रा, यू एन

startling - चौंका देने वाला, आश्चर्यजनक

slums - झुग्गी झोपड़ियों की बस्ती

We want facts-startling facts-damn you," he added, with a sort of ferocious discretion, right into Mr Verloc's face.

Damn - अभिशाप देना

ferocious - उग्र, खूँखार

discretion - विवेक

"Don't you try to come over me with your Hyperborean manners," Mr Verloc defended himself huskily, looking at the carpet. At this his interlocutor, smiling mockingly above the bristling bow of his necktie, switched the conversation into French.

hyperborean - पृथ्वी के उत्तरी छोर पर रहने वाला मनुष्य

mockingly - उपहासपूर्ण ढंग से

bristling - सूअर का बाल, फटा पड़ना

"You give yourself for an 'agent provocateur.' The proper business of an 'agent provocateur'is to provoke. As far as I can judge from your record kept here, you have done nothing to earn your money for the last three years."

provocateur - one who engages in provocative behavior

provoke - उत्तेजित करना, उत्पन्न करना

"Nothing!" exclaimed Verloc, stirring not a limb, and not raising his eyes, but with the note of sincere feeling in his tone. "I have several times prevented what might have been-"

stirring - उत्तेजक, फिंटाई, हरकत

limb - अंग

"There is a proverb in this country which says prevention is better than cure," interrupted Mr Vladimir, throwing himself into the arm-chair. "It is stupid in a general way. There is no end to prevention. But it is characteristic. They dislike finality in this country. Don't you be too English. And in this particular instance, don't be absurd. The evil is already here.

proverb - कहावत, मसल, लोकोक्ति

prevention - रोकथाम, रोक थाम

finality - निश्चयात्मकता, निर्णयात्मकता

absurd - निरर्थक, बेतुका, असंगत

We don't want prevention-we want cure."

He paused, turned to the desk, and turning over some papers lying there, spoke in a changed business-like tone, without looking at Mr Verloc.

"You know, of course, of the International Conference assembled in Milan?"

assembled - एकत्रित होना, जमा होना

Milan - मिलान

Mr Verloc intimated hoarsely that he was in the habit of reading the daily papers. To a further question his answer was that, of course, he understood what he read. At this Mr Vladimir, smiling faintly at the documents he was still scanning one after another, murmured "As long as it is not written in Latin, I suppose."

hoarsely - रूखे स्वरसे, भर्राई आवाज़ से

daily papers - दैनिक पेपर्स

faintly - अस्पष्टतः, संदिग्धतः

murmured - बड़बड़ाना, सरसराहट, बड़बड़ाहट

"Or Chinese," added Mr Verloc stolidly.

"H'm. Some of your revolutionary friends'effusions are written in a charabia every bit as incomprehensible as Chinese-" Mr Vladimir let fall disdainfully a grey sheet of printed matter. "What are all these leaflets headed F. P., with a hammer, pen, and torch crossed? What does it mean, this F. P.?" Mr Verloc approached the imposing writing-table.

effusions - बहाव

incomprehensible - दुरूह, अबोधगम्य, अबोध्य

disdainfully - अवज्ञापूर्वक

printed matter - मुद्रित पद्धति

"The Future of the Proletariat. It's a society," he explained, standing ponderously by the side of the arm-chair, "not anarchist in principle, but open to all shades of revolutionary opinion."

"Are you in it?"

"One of the Vice-Presidents," Mr Verloc breathed out heavily; and the First Secretary of the Embassy raised his head to look at him.

vice - व्यसन

"Then you ought to be ashamed of yourself," he said incisively. "Isn't your society capable of anything else but printing this prophetic bosh in blunt type on this filthy paper eh? Why don't you do something? Look here. I've this matter in hand now, and I tell you plainly that you will have to earn your money. The good old Stott-Wartenheim times are over. No work, no pay."

incisively - तीक्ष्णता से, तीक्ष्णता से

prophetic - भविष्यसूचक, पैगंबरी

filthy - अश्लील, बहुत ही, मलिन

plainly - साफ़ तौर पर, साफ़ साफ़

Mr Verloc felt a queer sensation of faintness in his stout legs. He stepped back one pace, and blew his nose loudly.

queer - अजीब, अनोखा, बेढंग

sensation - संवेदना, उत्तेजना, जोश, ज्ञान

faintness - property of being faint

He was, in truth, startled and alarmed. The rusty London sunshine struggling clear of the London mist shed a lukewarm brightness into the First Secretary's private room; and in the silence Mr Verloc heard against a window-pane the faint buzzing of a fly-his first fly of the year-heralding better than any number of swallows the approach of spring.

sunshine - धूप, सूर्यप्रकाश

shed - शाला, घर

lukewarm - निरुत्साह, गुनगुना

brightness - चमक

pane - फलक

buzzing - गुंजायमान

heralding - घोषणा करना, घोषणा करना

The useless fussing of that tiny energetic organism affected unpleasantly this big man threatened in his indolence.

fussing - परेशान करना, चिंतित होना

energetic - बल, चुस्त, ओजस्वी, कर्मठ, तेजस

organism - जीव

unpleasantly - अरूचिकर ढंग से, अरूचिकर ढंग से

In the pause Mr Vladimir formulated in his mind a series of disparaging remarks concerning Mr Verloc's face and figure. The fellow was unexpectedly vulgar, heavy, and impudently unintelligent. He looked uncommonly like a master plumber come to present his bill.

formulated - निरूपित करना, निरूपित करना

disparaging - उपेक्षा करना, बुराई करना

vulgar - वल्गर, अश्लील

impudently - ढिठाई से, धृष्टतापूर्वक

unintelligent - नासमझ, अल्पबुद्धि

uncommonly - असामान्य रूप से

plumber - कसेरा, नलकार, नलसाज़

The First Secretary of the Embassy, from his occasional excursions into the field of American humour, had formed a special notion of that class of mechanic as the embodiment of fraudulent laziness and incompetency.

occasional - प्रासंगिक, असाम्यिक

excursions - सैर, पर्यटन, भटकाव

embodiment - मूर्त रूप

fraudulent - कपटपूर्ण, छलपूर्ण, धोखेबाज

laziness - आलस्य, आलस, कामचोरी, अलकस

incompetency - क्षमता का अभाव, अक्षमता

This was then the famous and trusty secret agent, so secret that he was never designated otherwise but by the symbol [delta] in the late Baron Stott-Wartenheim's official, semi-official, and confidential correspondence; the celebrated agent [delta], whose warnings had the power to change the schemes and the dates of royal, imperial, grand ducal journeys, and sometimes caused them to be put off altogether! This fellow! And Mr Vladimir indulged mentally in an enormous and derisive fit of merriment, partly at his own astonishment, which he judged naive, but mostly at the expense of the universally regretted Baron Stott-Wartenheim. His late Excellency, whom the august favour of his Imperial master had imposed as Ambassador upon several reluctant Ministers of Foreign Affairs, had enjoyed in his lifetime a fame for an owlish, pessimistic gullibility. His Excellency had the social revolution on the brain. He imagined himself to be a diplomatist set apart by a special dispensation to watch the end of diplomacy, and pretty nearly the end of the world, in a horrid democratic upheaval. His prophetic and doleful despatches had been for years the joke of foreign offices. He was said to have exclaimed on his deathbed (visited by his Imperial friend and master): "Unhappy Europe! Thou shalt perish by the moral insanity of thy children!" He was fated to be the victim of the first humbugging rascal that came along, thought Mr Vladimir, smiling vaguely at Mr Verloc.

trusty - विश्वसनीय, कर्तव्यनिष्ठ

designated - दिखाना, निर्दिष्ट करना

semi - अर्ध, सेमीई

confidential - गोपनीय

correspondence - लिखा पढी, समानता, लिखा पढी

delta - डेल्टा

warnings - चेतावनीपूर्ण, चेतावनी, धमकी

ducal - ड्यूक संबंधी

indulged - लिप्त होना, प्रसन्न करना

mentally - मानसिक रूप से, मतिभ्रष्ट

derisive - उपहासपूर्ण

astonishment - आश्चर्य, अचरज

naive - सरल, अदीक्षित, भोला, अनुभवहीन

universally - सर्वत्र, सभी के द्वारा

Imperial - शाही/प्रतापी, राजसी, शाही

reluctant - अनिच्छुक, असम्मत

owlish - उल्लू जैसा, उल्लू जैसा

pessimistic - निराशावादी, निराशावादात्मक

gullibility - भोलापन

diplomatist - व्यवहारकुशल व्यक्ति, राजनयिक

dispensation - वितरण, विधान, विशेषानुमति

diplomacy - कूटनीति, राजनय

horrid - भयंकर, जघन्य

upheaval - कायापलट, खलबली

foreign offices - विदेशी कार्यालय

deathbed - मृत्यु शय्या, मृत्युशय्या

thou - तू

perish - खत्म हो जाना, मरना, मर जाना

insanity - पागलपन, जुनून

thy - तेरा

humbugging - बकवास, छल कपट, हमबग, धोखेबाज

rascal - दुष्ट

"You ought to venerate the memory of Baron Stott-Wartenheim," he exclaimed suddenly.

venerate - आदर करना

The lowered physiognomy of Mr Verloc expressed a sombre and weary annoyance.

sombre - निराशाजनक, उदास/शोकमग्न

annoyance - चिढ़, मुसीबत, कष्ट, छेड़छाड़

"Permit me to observe to you," he said, "that I came here because I was summoned by a peremptory letter. I have been here only twice before in the last eleven years, and certainly never at eleven in the morning. It isn't very wise to call me up like this. There is just a chance of being seen. And that would be no joke for me."

peremptory - बाध्यकारी, निर्णयात्मक

Mr Vladimir shrugged his shoulders.

shrugged - कंधे उचकाना, कंधे उचकाना

"It would destroy my usefulness," continued the other hotly.

hotly - उत्तेजनापूर्वक, गुस्से से

"That's your affair," murmured Mr Vladimir, with soft brutality. "When you cease to be useful you shall cease to be employed. Yes. Right off. Cut short. You shall-" Mr Vladimir, frowning, paused, at a loss for a sufficiently idiomatic expression, and instantly brightened up, with a grin of beautifully white teeth. "You shall be chucked," he brought out ferociously.

brutality - पाशविकता, क्रूरता

cease - बन्द करना, बन्द करना

brightened - प्रसन्न होना, चमकना

grin - दांत दिखाते हुए मुस्कुराना

beautifully - सुंदर ढंग से, बहुत अच्छे से

chucked - निकाल देना, चक

ferociously - उग्र रूप से, खूँखार रूप से

Once more Mr Verloc had to react with all the force of his will against that sensation of faintness running down one's legs which once upon a time had inspired some poor devil with the felicitous expression: "My heart went down into my boots." Mr Verloc, aware of the sensation, raised his head bravely.

felicitous - परम सुखी

bravely - बहादुरी से

Mr Vladimir bore the look of heavy inquiry with perfect serenity.

serenity - शांति

"What we want is to administer a tonic to the Conference in Milan," he said airily. "Its deliberations upon international action for the suppression of political crime don't seem to get anywhere. England lags. This country is absurd with its sentimental regard for individual liberty. It's intolerable to think that all your friends have got only to come over to-"

administer - करना, देना, व्यवस्था करना

tonic - बल्य, बलवर्द्धक औषधि

airily - लापरवाही से, लापरवाही से

deliberations - विचार, विचार विमर्श, सावधानी

suppression - रोक, प्रतिबंध, दमन

lags - अंतराल, बिलम्ब, पिछड़ जाना

sentimental - भावुक, भावुकतापूर्ण, भावनात्मक

liberty - आज़ादी

intolerable - असहनीय, असह्य

"In that way I have them all under my eye," Mr Verloc interrupted huskily.

"It would be much more to the point to have them all under lock and key. England must be brought into line. The imbecile bourgeoisie of this country make themselves the accomplices of the very people whose aim is to drive them out of their houses to starve in ditches. And they have the political power still, if they only had the sense to use it for their preservation.

imbecile - मूर्ख

bourgeoisie - बुर्जुआ

accomplices - सह अपराधी, सहअपराधी, पाप सहभागी

ditches - नाली, उतारना, खाई

preservation - संरक्षण

I suppose you agree that the middle classes are stupid?"

Mr Verloc agreed hoarsely.

"They are."

"They have no imagination. They are blinded by an idiotic vanity. What they want just now is a jolly good scare. This is the psychological moment to set your friends to work. I have had you called here to develop to you my idea."

idiotic - मूर्ख, अहमक़

vanity - दिखावा, निरर्थकता, घमण्ड

jolly - मौजी

And Mr Vladimir developed his idea from on high, with scorn and condescension, displaying at the same time an amount of ignorance as to the real aims, thoughts, and methods of the revolutionary world which filled the silent Mr Verloc with inward consternation.

scorn - तिरस्कार, तिरस्कार करना

ignorance - अज्ञान, अविद्या, बेखबरी, नासमझी

inward - भीतरी, अन्दरूनी, भीतर की ओर

consternation - व्याकुलता, विस्मय/घबराहट

He confounded causes with effects more than was excusable; the most distinguished propagandists with impulsive bomb throwers; assumed organisation where in the nature of things it could not exist; spoke of the social revolutionary party one moment as of a perfectly disciplined army, where the word of chiefs was supreme, and at another as if it had been the loosest association of desperate brigands that ever camped in a mountain gorge. Once Mr Verloc had opened his mouth for a protest, but the raising of a shapely, large white hand arrested him. Very soon he became too appalled to even try to protest. He listened in a stillness of dread which resembled the immobility of profound attention.

confounded - पराजित करना, गलत साबित करना

excusable - क्षम्य

most distinguished - सर्वोत्कृष्ट

propagandists - प्रचारक, प्रचारवादी, अधिप्रचारक

impulsive - मौजी, आवेगी, आवेगशील, अप्रेरित

throwers - फेंकने वाला, कुम्हार

organisation - व्यवस्थापन, संस्था, संगठन

supreme - सर्वोच्च

brigands - डकैत, डाकू

gorge - तंग घाटी

shapely - सुन्दर, सुडौल

appalled - नाराज़ होना, विस्मित कर देना

stillness - पवनरहितता

dread - वहशत, सहम

resembled - सदृश होना, सदृश होना

immobility - निश्चलता, गतिहीनता

"A series of outrages," Mr Vladimir continued calmly, "executed here in this country; not only planned here-that would not do-they would not mind. Your friends could set half the Continent on fire without influencing the public opinion here in favour of a universal repressive legislation. They will not look outside their backyard here."

outrages - नाराज़ होना, बहुत खराब बात

calmly - शांतिपूर्वक, शान्ती से

executed - पूरा करना, कार्यान्वित करना

Legislation - विधि, विधान, कानून, विधायन

backyard - पिछवाड़े का आँगन, पिछवाड़ा

Mr Verloc cleared his throat, but his heart failed him, and he said nothing.

"These outrages need not be especially sanguinary," Mr Vladimir went on, as if delivering a scientific lecture, "but they must be sufficiently startling-effective. Let them be directed against buildings, for instance. What is the fetish of the hour that all the bourgeoisie recognise-eh, Mr Verloc?"

sanguinary - खून का प्यासा, रक्तपातपूर्ण

buildings - भवन, निर्माण, भवन निर्माण, कोठी

fetish - आवश्यकता से अधिक ध्यान देना

recognise - स्वीकार करना, पहचानना

Mr Verloc opened his hands and shrugged his shoulders slightly.

"You are too lazy to think," was Mr Vladimir's comment upon that gesture. "Pay attention to what I say. The fetish of to-day is neither royalty nor religion. Therefore the palace and the church should be left alone. You understand what I mean, Mr Verloc?"

royalty - रयल्टी, राजपरिवार सदस्य

The dismay and the scorn of Mr Verloc found vent in an attempt at levity.

dismay - निराश करना, निराशा, त्रस्त

vent - छिद्र

levity - छिछलापन

"Perfectly. But what of the Embassies? A series of attacks on the various Embassies," he began; but he could not withstand the cold, watchful stare of the First Secretary.

embassies - राजदूत, राजदूतावास

withstand - सामना करना, सहन करना

watchful - सतर्क, चौकस, जागा हुआ, निद्राहीन

"You can be facetious, I see," the latter observed carelessly. "That's all right. It may enliven your oratory at socialistic congresses. But this room is no place for it. It would be infinitely safer for you to follow carefully what I am saying.

facetious - विनोदी, हँसानेवाले, मज़ाकिया

carelessly - लापरवाही से, असावधानतः

That's all right - ठीक है

enliven - उत्तेजित करना

oratory - प्रार्थनागृह, वाक्पटुता

socialistic - समाजवादी

congresses - प्रतिनिधि सभा

infinitely - बहुत ज़्यादा, बहुत हद तक

As you are being called upon to furnish facts instead of cock-and-bull stories, you had better try to make your profit off what I am taking the trouble to explain to you. The sacrosanct fetish of to-day is science. Why don't you get some of your friends to go for that wooden-faced panjandrum-eh? Is it not part of these institutions which must be swept away before the F. P. comes along?"

furnish - सुस्सजित करना, प्रस्तुत करना

cock - मुर्गा

Bull - सांड़

sacrosanct - अतिपवित्र

panjandrum - अत्यंत महत्वपूर्ण व्यक्ति

Mr Verloc said nothing. He was afraid to open his lips lest a groan should escape him.

groan - कराहना, आह

"This is what you should try for. An attempt upon a crowned head or on a president is sensational enough in a way, but not so much as it used to be. It has entered into the general conception of the existence of all chiefs of state. It's almost conventional-especially since so many presidents have been assassinated. Now let us take an outrage upon-say a church.

crowned - शिखर, सिर पर मारना, सिर

sensational - शानदार, खलबली मचाने वाला

assassinated - हत्या करना, हत्या करना

outrage - नाराज़ होना, बहुत खराब बात

Horrible enough at first sight, no doubt, and yet not so effective as a person of an ordinary mind might think. No matter how revolutionary and anarchist in inception, there would be fools enough to give such an outrage the character of a religious manifestation. And that would detract from the especial alarming significance we wish to give to the act.

inception - आरम्भ

manifestation - आविर्भाव, प्रत्यक्षीकरण

detract - खराब बात

especial - विशिष्ट

A murderous attempt on a restaurant or a theatre would suffer in the same way from the suggestion of non-political passion: the exasperation of a hungry man, an act of social revenge. All this is used up; it is no longer instructive as an object lesson in revolutionary anarchism. Every newspaper has ready-made phrases to explain such manifestations away.

murderous - हिंस्र

non - ग़ैर

exasperation - क्रोध, रोष

revenge - बदला, इंतक़ाम r=intaqām

instructive - शिक्षाप्रद

anarchism - अराजकता, अराजकतावाद

manifestations - आविर्भाव, प्रत्यक्षीकरण

I am about to give you the philosophy of bomb throwing from my point of view; from the point of view you pretend to have been serving for the last eleven years. I will try not to talk above your head. The sensibilities of the class you are attacking are soon blunted. Property seems to them an indestructible thing. You can't count upon their emotions either of pity or fear for very long.

sensibilities - संवेदनशीलता

blunted - मुँहफट, भौंथरा

indestructible - अविनाशी, अटूट

A bomb outrage to have any influence on public opinion now must go beyond the intention of vengeance or terrorism. It must be purely destructive. It must be that, and only that, beyond the faintest suspicion of any other object. You anarchists should make it clear that you are perfectly determined to make a clean sweep of the whole social creation.

bomb outrage - बम्ब आपदा

vengeance - प्रतिशोध, बदला, प्रतिहिंसा

destructive - हानिकर, हानिकारक, विध्वंशकारी

faintest - धीमा, हल्की, धीमी, बेहोश होना

suspicion - खटका, अविश्वास, पुट, शक, संदेह

anarchists - अराजकतावादी

But how to get that appallingly absurd notion into the heads of the middle classes so that there should be no mistake? That's the question. By directing your blows at something outside the ordinary passions of humanity is the answer. Of course, there is art. A bomb in the National Gallery would make some noise. But it would not be serious enough. Art has never been their fetish.

appallingly - भयावह रूप से, भयावह रूप से

humanity - मानवता, मानव जाति, इंसानियत

It's like breaking a few back windows in a man's house; whereas, if you want to make him really sit up, you must try at least to raise the roof. There would be some screaming of course, but from whom? Artists-art critics and such like-people of no account. Nobody minds what they say. But there is learning-science. Any imbecile that has got an income believes in that.

He does not know why, but he believes it matters somehow. It is the sacrosanct fetish. All the damned professors are radicals at heart. Let them know that their great panjandrum has got to go too, to make room for the Future of the Proletariat. A howl from all these intellectual idiots is bound to help forward the labours of the Milan Conference. They will be writing to the papers.

damned - शापित, (damn), अभिशाप देना

Radicals - अतिवादी, विलक्षण, सुधारवादी

howl - चिल्लाना, चिल्लाहट

Idiots - जड़, मूर्ख, गधा

Their indignation would be above suspicion, no material interests being openly at stake, and it will alarm every selfishness of the class which should be impressed. They believe that in some mysterious way science is at the source of their material prosperity. They do.

stake - दाँव पर लगाना, सहारा देना

selfishness - स्वार्थ, स्वार्थपरता

prosperity - समृद्धि

And the absurd ferocity of such a demonstration will affect them more profoundly than the mangling of a whole street-or theatre-full of their own kind. To that last they can always say: 'Oh! it's mere class hate.' But what is one to say to an act of destructive ferocity so absurd as to be incomprehensible, inexplicable, almost unthinkable; in fact, mad?

ferocity - प्रचण्डता, उग्रता, खूँखारपना

mangling - मैंगलिंग, (mangle) मैंगलिंग

unthinkable - अचिन्त्य, अकल्पनीय, अविचारणीय

Madness alone is truly terrifying, inasmuch as you cannot placate it either by threats, persuasion, or bribes. Moreover, I am a civilised man. I would never dream of directing you to organise a mere butchery, even if I expected the best results from it. But I wouldn't expect from a butchery the result I want. Murder is always with us. It is almost an institution.

madness - पागलपन

placate - शांत करना, मनाना

persuasion - धारणा, अनुनय, धर्म

bribes - रिश्वत, घूस देना, रिश्वत देना

civilised - शिष्ट, सभ्य, शिक्षित

organise - आयोजित करना, योजना बनाना

butchery - कसाईखाना, बूचड़खाना

The demonstration must be against learning-science. But not every science will do. The attack must have all the shocking senselessness of gratuitous blasphemy. Since bombs are your means of expression, it would be really telling if one could throw a bomb into pure mathematics. But that is impossible.

senselessness - निरर्थकता, बेखुदी, मदहोशी

gratuitous - मुफ्त, अनावश्यक, आनुग्रहिक

blasphemy - ईश निंदाआ, ईश निंदाआ

I have been trying to educate you; I have expounded to you the higher philosophy of your usefulness, and suggested to you some serviceable arguments. The practical application of my teaching interests you mostly. But from the moment I have undertaken to interview you I have also given some attention to the practical aspect of the question. What do you think of having a go at astronomy?"

expounded - व्याख्या करना, समझाना

serviceable - उपयोगी, टिकाऊ, काम का

practical application - प्रयोगशाला

astronomy - खगोल शास्त्र

For sometime already Mr Verloc's immobility by the side of the arm-chair resembled a state of collapsed coma-a sort of passive insensibility interrupted by slight convulsive starts, such as may be observed in the domestic dog having a nightmare on the hearthrug. And it was in an uneasy doglike growl that he repeated the word:

coma - निश्चेतना

passive - कर्मवाच्य, निष्क्रीय, कर्मप्रधन

insensibility - संवेदनशून्यता, उदासीनता, बेहोशी

convulsive - झटकेधर

Hearthrug - फ़ायरप्लेस के सामने की दरी

uneasy - व्याकुल

doglike - कुत्ते जैसा

growl - गड़गड़ाहट, भुनभुनाना, गुर्राना

"Astronomy."

He had not recovered thoroughly as yet from that state of bewilderment brought about by the effort to follow Mr Vladimir's rapid incisive utterance. It had overcome his power of assimilation. It had made him angry. This anger was complicated by incredulity. And suddenly it dawned upon him that all this was an elaborate joke.

incisive - प्रभावशाली, तीक्ष्ण

assimilation - आत्मसात्करण, परिपाक, आत्मसात

incredulity - अविश्वास

elaborate - विस्तार से बनाना, व्याख्या

Mr Vladimir exhibited his white teeth in a smile, with dimples on his round, full face posed with a complacent inclination above the bristling bow of his neck-tie. The favourite of intelligent society women had assumed his drawing-room attitude accompanying the delivery of delicate witticisms.

dimples - गढ्ढा

complacent - आत्मसन्तुष्ट, आत्मसंतुष्ट

Sitting well forward, his white hand upraised, he seemed to hold delicately between his thumb and forefinger the subtlety of his suggestion.

upraised - पुनर्जीवित करना

delicately - कुशलतापूर्वक

subtlety - जटिलता, बारीकी, सूक्ष्मता

"There could be nothing better. Such an outrage combines the greatest possible regard for humanity with the most alarming display of ferocious imbecility. I defy the ingenuity of journalists to persuade their public that any given member of the proletariat can have a personal grievance against astronomy. Starvation itself could hardly be dragged in there-eh? And there are other advantages.

most alarming - सबसे खतरनाक

imbecility - मूर्खता, मूढता, अल्पबुद्धिमत्ता

defy - विरोध करना, सामना करना

ingenuity - पटुता, विदग्धता

grievance - शिकायत, मनोमालिन्य, रंजिश

starvation - भुखमरी

The whole civilised world has heard of Greenwich. The very boot-blacks in the basement of Charing Cross Station know something of it. See?"

Greenwich - east London town

Charing - नौकरानी, जल कर काला हो जाना

The features of Mr Vladimir, so well known in the best society by their humorous urbanity, beamed with cynical self-satisfaction, which would have astonished the intelligent women his wit entertained so exquisitely. "Yes," he continued, with a contemptuous smile, "the blowing up of the first meridian is bound to raise a howl of execration."

urbanity - सौम्यता, शिष्टता, शहरी सभ्यता

beamed - चमक, झलक, प्रकाश विकिरण करना

astonished - ठगा सा, आश्चर्य होना, चकित करना

exquisitely - नज़ाकत से, नज़ाकत से

meridian - दोपहर

execration - घृणा, नफ़रत, जुगुप्सा

"A difficult business," Mr Verloc mumbled, feeling that this was the only safe thing to say.

mumbled - भुनभुनाना, बुदबुदाना/गुणगुणाना

"What is the matter? Haven't you the whole gang under your hand? The very pick of the basket? That old terrorist Yundt is here. I see him walking about Piccadilly in his green havelock almost every day. And Michaelis, the ticket-of-leave apostle-you don't mean to say you don't know where he is? Because if you don't, I can tell you," Mr Vladimir went on menacingly.

havelock - हैवलॉक

apostle - प्रचारक, सुधारक नेता, धर्मदूत

menacingly - डरावने ढंग से, डरावने ढंग से

"If you imagine that you are the only one on the secret fund list, you are mistaken."

are mistaken - गलत है

This perfectly gratuitous suggestion caused Mr Verloc to shuffle his feet slightly.

shuffle - पैर घसीट कर चलना, रगड़ना/घसीटना

"And the whole Lausanne lot-eh? Haven't they been flocking over here at the first hint of the Milan Conference? This is an absurd country."

flocking - फ्लॉकिंग, (floc) फ्लॉकिंग

hint - झलक, संकेत, सुझाव, इशारा

"It will cost money," Mr Verloc said, by a sort of instinct.

instinct - फ़ितरत, वृत्ति, सलीक़ा

"That cock won't fight," Mr Vladimir retorted, with an amazingly genuine English accent. "You'll get your screw every month, and no more till something happens. And if nothing happens very soon you won't get even that. What's your ostensible occupation? What are you supposed to live by?"

retorted - प्रत्युत्तर देना, प्रत्युतर

screw - मोड़ना, संभोग करना, कंजूस, जेलर

"I keep a shop," answered Mr Verloc.

"A shop! What sort of shop?"

"Stationery, newspapers. My wife-"

Stationery - लेखन सामग्री, पत्र लेखन कागज़

"Your what?" interrupted Mr Vladimir in his guttural Central Asian tones.

"My wife." Mr Verloc raised his husky voice slightly. "I am married."

"That be damned for a yarn," exclaimed the other in unfeigned astonishment. "Married! And you a professed anarchist, too! What is this confounded nonsense? But I suppose it's merely a manner of speaking. Anarchists don't marry. It's well known. They can't. It would be apostasy."

yarn - सूत

unfeigned - सच्चा, अकृत्रिम

professed - स्वीकार करना, दावा करना

merely - केवल, मात्र

apostasy - सिद्धांतत्याग, धर्मत्याग

"My wife isn't one," Mr Verloc mumbled sulkily. "Moreover, it's no concern of yours."

sulkily - रूठ कर

"Oh yes, it is," snapped Mr Vladimir. "I am beginning to be convinced that you are not at all the man for the work you've been employed on. Why, you must have discredited yourself completely in your own world by your marriage. Couldn't you have managed without? This is your virtuous attachment-eh? What with one sort of attachment and another you are doing away with your usefulness."

snapped - प्रेस बटन, टूटना, काट लेना

discredited - बदनाम करना, बदनामी

virtuous - नैतिक, पवित्र, धर्मपरायण

Mr Verloc, puffing out his cheeks, let the air escape violently, and that was all. He had armed himself with patience. It was not to be tried much longer. The First Secretary became suddenly very curt, detached, final.

puffing - फ़फ़िंग, (puff) फ़फ़िंग

violently - हिंसात्मक ढंग से

curt - रूखा, मुँहतोड उत्तर

detached - भेज देना, काटना, अलग होना

"You may go now," he said. "A dynamite outrage must be provoked. I give you a month. The sittings of the Conference are suspended. Before it reassembles again something must have happened here, or your connection with us ceases."

dynamite - बारूद, बारूत

sittings - आत्मा आह्वान बैठक, बैठक

reassembles - फिर से जोड़ना

ceases - बन्द करना, बन्द करना

He changed the note once more with an unprincipled versatility.

unprincipled - अनैतिक, सिद्धांतहीन

versatility - प्रतिभा

"think over my philosophy, Mr-Mr-Verloc," he said, with a sort of chaffing condescension, waving his hand towards the door. "Go for the first meridian. You don't know the middle classes as well as I do. Their sensibilities are jaded. The first meridian. Nothing better, and nothing easier, I should think."

think over - विचार करना

chaffing - छलकाव, (chaff) छलकाव

jaded - थकाना, जेड{हरा पत्थर}, हरा रंग

He had got up, and with his thin sensitive lips twitching humorously, watched in the glass over the mantelpiece Mr Verloc backing out of the room heavily, hat and stick in hand. The door closed.

twitching - फड़कन, (twitch)

humorously - विनोद से, हास्यकर ढंग से

The footman in trousers, appearing suddenly in the corridor, let Mr Verloc another way out and through a small door in the corner of the courtyard. The porter standing at the gate ignored his exit completely; and Mr Verloc retraced the path of his morning's pilgrimage as if in a dream-an angry dream.

retraced - पता लगाना, फिर से रचना

pilgrimage - तीर्थ

This detachment from the material world was so complete that, though the mortal envelope of Mr Verloc had not hastened unduly along the streets, that part of him to which it would be unwarrantably rude to refuse immortality, found itself at the shop door all at once, as if borne from west to east on the wings of a great wind.

detachment - पृथक्करण, तटस्थता, टुकड़ी

hastened - जल्दी करना, जल्दी कहना

unduly - अनावश्यक रूप से

unwarrantably - असंगत ढंग से

refuse - अस्वीकार करना

immortality - चिरस्थायित्व

wind - हवा

He walked straight behind the counter, and sat down on a wooden chair that stood there. No one appeared to disturb his solitude.

Stevie, put into a green baize apron, was now sweeping and dusting upstairs, intent and conscientious, as though he were playing at it; and Mrs Verloc, warned in the kitchen by the clatter of the cracked bell, had merely come to the glazed door of the parlour, and putting the curtain aside a little, had peered into the dim shop.

baize - ऊन का कपड़ा जो टेबल पर बिछाते हैं

apron - तहबन्द, एप्रन

intent - स्थिर, डूबा, उद्देश्य, लीन

conscientious - कर्तव्यनिष्ठ, शुद्ध अंतःकरणवाला

clatter - खड़खड़ की आवाज़ करना, खड़खड़ाहट

Seeing her husband sitting there shadowy and bulky, with his hat tilted far back on his head, she had at once returned to her stove.

shadowy - अस्पष्ट, छाया सा, रहस्यपूर्ण

bulky - भारी भरकम, बड़ा/2.स्थूल

tilted - झुकाना, डगमगाना, झुकना, झुकाव

stove - स्टोव, चूल्हा, अंगीठी, गरमखाना

An hour or more later she took the green baize apron off her brother Stevie, and instructed him to wash his hands and face in the peremptory tone she had used in that connection for fifteen years or so-ever since she had, in fact, ceased to attend to the boy's hands and face herself.

instructed - बताना, उपदेश देना, सूचित करना

ceased - बन्द करना, बन्द करना

She spared presently a glance away from her dishing-up for the inspection of that face and those hands which Stevie, approaching the kitchen table, offered for her approval with an air of self-assurance hiding a perpetual residue of anxiety.

Presently - अभी, शीघ्र ही, संप्रति

inspection - निरीक्षण

assurance - आश्वासन, गारन्टी, विश्वास

perpetual - निरन्तर, शाश्वत, चिरस्थायी

residue - शेष, अवशिष्ट, बची हुई संपत्ति

Formerly the anger of the father was the supremely effective sanction of these rites, but Mr Verloc's placidity in domestic life would have made all mention of anger incredible even to poor Stevie's nervousness. The theory was that Mr Verloc would have been inexpressibly pained and shocked by any deficiency of cleanliness at meal times.

supremely - to the highest degree

sanction - मंजूरी

rites - धार्मिक संस्कार, रीति

placidity - शांति, शांतचित्तता

nervousness - घबराहट, तनाव, अधीरता, धैर्यहीनता

inexpressibly - अकथनीय रूप से, अवर्णनीयता से

deficiency - कमी, दोष

cleanliness - सफ़ाई

Winnie after the death of her father found considerable consolation in the feeling that she need no longer tremble for poor Stevie. She could not bear to see the boy hurt. It maddened her. As a little girl she had often faced with blazing eyes the irascible licensed victualler in defence of her brother.

consolation - संतना

tremble - परेशान करना, हिलना, कम्पन

maddened - क्रुद्ध होना[करना]

blazing - चमक, लौ, चिन्ह, चमकना, जलना

irascible - क्रोधी, चिड़चिड़ा

Nothing now in Mrs Verloc's appearance could lead one to suppose that she was capable of a passionate demonstration.

She finished her dishing-up. The table was laid in the parlour. Going to the foot of the stairs, she screamed out "Mother!" Then opening the glazed door leading to the shop, she said quietly "Adolf!" Mr Verloc had not changed his position; he had not apparently stirred a limb for an hour and a half.

stirred - चलाना, उत्तेजित करना, मिलाना

He got up heavily, and came to his dinner in his overcoat and with his hat on, without uttering a word. His silence in itself had nothing startlingly unusual in this household, hidden in the shades of the sordid street seldom touched by the sun, behind the dim shop with its wares of disreputable rubbish.

uttering - उत्पन्न करना, (utter) उत्पन्न करना

startlingly - आश्चर्यजनक रूप से

sordid - घटिया, अनैतिक, गंदा

seldom - कभी कभी

disreputable - अशोभनीय, बदनाम, अपमान/लज्जाजनक

Only that day Mr Verloc's taciturnity was so obviously thoughtful that the two women were impressed by it. They sat silent themselves, keeping a watchful eye on poor Stevie, lest he should break out into one of his fits of loquacity. He faced Mr Verloc across the table, and remained very good and quiet, staring vacantly.

taciturnity - चुप्पी, अल्पभाषिता

thoughtful - परवाह करने वाला, सावधान

loquacity - वाचालता

vacantly - भावशून्य ढंग से

The endeavour to keep him from making himself objectionable in any way to the master of the house put no inconsiderable anxiety into these two women's lives. "That boy," as they alluded to him softly between themselves, had been a source of that sort of anxiety almost from the very day of his birth.

endeavour - प्रयत्न करना

objectionable - सितारा मछली, आपत्तिजनक

inconsiderable - अल्प, मामूली

alluded - संकेत करना, ज़िक्र करना

softly - हल्का सा, सादे ढंग से

The late licensed victualler's humiliation at having such a very peculiar boy for a son manifested itself by a propensity to brutal treatment; for he was a person of fine sensibilities, and his sufferings as a man and a father were perfectly genuine.

humiliation - निरादर, अपमान

peculiar - अजीब, अजीबो-गरीब

manifested - सुस्पष्ट, व्यक्त करना, स्पष्ट

propensity - प्रवृत्ति, झुकाव

brutal - कटु, पशुवत, निर्दयी

sufferings - पीड़ा, अत्यंत दुखी, कष्ट, दुःख

Afterwards Stevie had to be kept from making himself a nuisance to the single gentlemen lodgers, who are themselves a queer lot, and are easily aggrieved. And there was always the anxiety of his mere existence to face. Visions of a workhouse infirmary for her child had haunted the old woman in the basement breakfast-room of the decayed Belgravian house.

nuisance - उपद्रव, परेशानी, कण्टक

aggrieved - दुख देना

workhouse - दरिद्रालय

infirmary - अस्पताल, अस्पताल/शफ़ाखाना

haunted - याद आना, भूत बन कर घूमना, अड्डा

decayed - खराब करना, ख़राब होना, विकार

"If you had not found such a good husband, my dear," she used to say to her daughter, "I don't know what would have become of that poor boy."

Mr Verloc extended as much recognition to Stevie as a man not particularly fond of animals may give to his wife's beloved cat; and this recognition, benevolent and perfunctory, was essentially of the same quality. Both women admitted to themselves that not much more could be reasonably expected. It was enough to earn for Mr Verloc the old woman's reverential gratitude.

beloved - प्रेमिका, सनम, प्यारा, प्रियतम

benevolent - हितकारी, दयालु, उदार, परोपकारी

perfunctory - यन्त्रवत्, लापरवाही से किया गया

reverential - श्ह्रद्धापूर्ण

gratitude - आभार, कृतज्ञता, शुक्र r=śukr

In the early days, made sceptical by the trials of friendless life, she used sometimes to ask anxiously: "You don't think, my dear, that Mr Verloc is getting tired of seeing Stevie about?" To this Winnie replied habitually by a slight toss of her head. Once, however, she retorted, with a rather grim pertness: "He'll have to get tired of me first." A long silence ensued.

sceptical - अविश्वासपूर्ण, संशयशील

friendless - मित्रहीन

anxiously - चिंतित होकर, उदवेग से

habitually - आदतन, आदत से

toss - टॉस

grim - भयानक

pertness - धृष्टता

ensued - पीछा करना, परिणामस्वरूप होना

The mother, with her feet propped up on a stool, seemed to be trying to get to the bottom of that answer, whose feminine profundity had struck her all of a heap. She had never really understood why Winnie had married Mr Verloc. It was very sensible of her, and evidently had turned out for the best, but her girl might have naturally hoped to find somebody of a more suitable age.

propped - सहारा, लकडी से बना आधार

stool - चौकी, तिपाही, पाखाना, मल, गुह

feminine - स्त्रीलिंग

profundity - गहनता, गंभीरता, गहराई

heap - ढेर

evidently - स्पष्ट रूप से, स्पष्ट रूप से

There had been a steady young fellow, only son of a butcher in the next street, helping his father in business, with whom Winnie had been walking out with obvious gusto. He was dependent on his father, it is true; but the business was good, and his prospects excellent. He took her girl to the theatre on several evenings.

gusto - स्वाद, जोश, आनन्द, उत्साह, उमंग

Then just as she began to dread to hear of their engagement (for what could she have done with that big house alone, with Stevie on her hands), that romance came to an abrupt end, and Winnie went about looking very dull. But Mr Verloc, turning up providentially to occupy the first-floor front bedroom, there had been no more question of the young butcher. It was clearly providential.

abrupt - उखड़ा उखड़ा, आकस्मिक, असंगत

providentially - भगवन की दया से, भगवन की दया से

CHAPTER III

" . . . All idealisation makes life poorer. To beautify it is to take away its character of complexity-it is to destroy it. Leave that to the moralists, my boy. History is made by men, but they do not make it in their heads. The ideas that are born in their consciousness play an insignificant part in the march of events.

idealisation - आदर्शीकरण

beautify - सजाना, सुंदर बनाना

complexity - जटिलता

Moralists - नितिवादि

consciousness - चेतना

insignificant - तुच्छ, नगण्य, मामूली

History is dominated and determined by the tool and the production-by the force of economic conditions. Capitalism has made socialism, and the laws made by the capitalism for the protection of property are responsible for anarchism. No one can tell what form the social organisation may take in the future. Then why indulge in prophetic phantasies?

Capitalism - पूंजीवाद

Socialism - समाजवाद

indulge - लिप्त होना, प्रसन्न करना

phantasies - स्वैर कल्पना

At best they can only interpret the mind of the prophet, and can have no objective value. Leave that pastime to the moralists, my boy."

prophet - नबी

Michaelis, the ticket-of-leave apostle, was speaking in an even voice, a voice that wheezed as if deadened and oppressed by the layer of fat on his chest.

wheezed - चाल, जोर जोर से साँस लेना

oppressed - दमन करना, दमन करना

He had come out of a highly hygienic prison round like a tub, with an enormous stomach and distended cheeks of a pale, semi-transparent complexion, as though for fifteen years the servants of an outraged society had made a point of stuffing him with fattening foods in a damp and lightless cellar. And ever since he had never managed to get his weight down as much as an ounce.

tub - ढक्कनदार डिब्बा, स्नान, टब, नांद

distended - फूलना, फैल् जाना

transparent - सुस्पष्ट, सच्चा, स्पष्ट

outraged - नाराज़ होना, बहुत खराब बात

fattening - मोटा करने वाला

damp - कम करना, गीला, नमी, नम करना

lightless - lacking light

cellar - तंग कोठरी

ounce - एक तोल

It was said that for three seasons running a very wealthy old lady had sent him for a cure to Marienbad-where he was about to share the public curiosity once with a crowned head-but the police on that occasion ordered him to leave within twelve hours. His martyrdom was continued by forbidding him all access to the healing waters. But he was resigned now.

curiosity - जिज्ञासा

martyrdom - शहादत, शहीदी, कुरबानी

With his elbow presenting no appearance of a joint, but more like a bend in a dummy's limb, thrown over the back of a chair, he leaned forward slightly over his short and enormous thighs to spit into the grate.

dummy - चुसनी, कठपुतली, काठ का उल्ल्

thrown over - फेंका गया

thighs - जंघा, रान, जाँघ, ऊरु

spit - ज़ोर से बोलना, घुरघुराना, थूकना

grate - झंझरी

"Yes! I had the time to think things out a little," he added without emphasis. "Society has given me plenty of time for meditation."

meditation - ध्यान, विचार, चिंतन, तपस्या

On the other side of the fireplace, in the horse-hair arm-chair where Mrs Verloc's mother was generally privileged to sit, Karl Yundt giggled grimly, with a faint black grimace of a toothless mouth. The terrorist, as he called himself, was old and bald, with a narrow, snow-white wisp of a goatee hanging limply from his chin.

privileged - सौभाग्य, सुविधा, विशेषाधिकार

giggled - मन्द मन्द हंसना, ठट्ठा

grimly - कठोरता से, कठोरता से

toothless - दंतहीन, अप्रभावी

wisp - गुच्छा, लट, छरहरा व्यक्ति

goatee - गोटी, बकरदाढ़ी, बुच्ची दाढ़ी

limply - ढीले ढाले ढंग से

An extraordinary expression of underhand malevolence survived in his extinguished eyes. When he rose painfully the thrusting forward of a skinny groping hand deformed by gouty swellings suggested the effort of a moribund murderer summoning all his remaining strength for a last stab. He leaned on a thick stick, which trembled under his other hand.

underhand - कपटपूर्ण, कपटपूर्ण ढंग से

malevolence - द्वेष

extinguished - नष्ट करना, बुझा देना

painfully - अप्रीतिकर ढंग से, कष्टपूर्वक

thrusting - धमकी देना, (thrust) धमकी देना

skinny - पतला

groping - टटोलना, ज़बर्दस्ती छूना

deformed - रूप बिगाड़ना, विकृत करना

gouty - गठियाग्रस्त

swellings - सूजन, अंड वृध्दि

moribund - मृतप्राय, अन्त के करीब, मरणासन्न

murderer - हत्यारा, ख़ूनी, क़ातिल

summoning - बुलाना, इकट्ठा करना, तैयार रखना

stab - भोंकना

trembled - परेशान करना, हिलना, कम्पन

"I have always dreamed," he mouthed fiercely, "of a band of men absolute in their resolve to discard all scruples in the choice of means, strong enough to give themselves frankly the name of destroyers, and free from the taint of that resigned pessimism which rots the world.

fiercely - उग्रतापूर्वक, प्रचंड रूप से

discard - निकाल देना, डाल देना

scruples - आशंका होना, संकोच, आशंका होना

frankly - ईमानदारी से, ईमानदारी से

destroyers - घातक, विनाश करने वाला, ध्वंसक

taint - दूषित करना

pessimism - निराशावाद

rots - सड़ाना, सड़ना

No pity for anything on earth, including themselves, and death enlisted for good and all in the service of humanity-that's what I would have liked to see."

enlisted - भर्ती करना /सूचि पत्र में नाम लिखना

His little bald head quivered, imparting a comical vibration to the wisp of white goatee. His enunciation would have been almost totally unintelligible to a stranger. His worn-out passion, resembling in its impotent fierceness the excitement of a senile sensualist, was badly served by a dried throat and toothless gums which seemed to catch the tip of his tongue.

imparting - बताना, प्रदान करना

comical - हास्यास्पद, ठठोलिया

vibration - कंपन, सिहरन, स्पंदन, थरथरी, दोलन

enunciation - act of enunciating

unintelligible - अस्पष्ट, अबोधगम्य

resembling - सदृश होना, सदृश होना

impotent - नामर्द, नपुंसक

fierceness - प्रचंडता, बर्बरता

senile - बुढ़ापे के कारण सठियाया हुआ

sensualist - इंद्रियार्थवादी, विषयभोगवादी

gums - च्यूइंग गम, च्यूइंग गम

Mr Verloc, established in the corner of the sofa at the other end of the room, emitted two hearty grunts of assent.

sofa - सोफ़ा, सोफा

emitted - निकालना, छोड़ना

hearty - हार्दिक, भर पेट

grunts - घुरघुराना, भुनभुनाना

assent - स्वीकृति, सहमति, मान लेना

The old terrorist turned slowly his head on his skinny neck from side to side.

"And I could never get as many as three such men together. So much for your rotten pessimism," he snarled at Michaelis, who uncrossed his thick legs, similar to bolsters, and slid his feet abruptly under his chair in sign of exasperation.

rotten - सड़ा

snarled - कर्कश स्वर में बोलना, जाम, उलझन

uncrossed - सीधाअना

bolsters - सहारा देना, सहारा देना, मसनद

abruptly - अचानक, रूखेपन से, अचानक ही

He a pessimist! Preposterous! He cried out that the charge was outrageous. He was so far from pessimism that he saw already the end of all private property coming along logically, unavoidably, by the mere development of its inherent viciousness. The possessors of property had not only to face the awakened proletariat, but they had also to fight amongst themselves. Yes.

pessimist - निराशावादी, निराशावाद

preposterous - बेतुका, असंगत, हास्यास्पद

logically - in a logical manner

unavoidably - अपरिहार्य रूप से

inherent - अन्तर्निहित, जन्मजात, स्वाभविक

viciousness - क्रूरता

possessors - मालिक, स्वामी

awakened - उठाना, जगाना, जागना

amongst - के बीच में, के बीच में

Struggle, warfare, was the condition of private ownership. It was fatal. Ah! he did not depend upon emotional excitement to keep up his belief, no declamations, no anger, no visions of blood-red flags waving, or metaphorical lurid suns of vengeance rising above the horizon of a doomed society. Not he! Cold reason, he boasted, was the basis of his optimism. Yes, optimism-

warfare - युद्ध, संघर्ष, युद्धकला

declamations - घोषणा, भाषण

metaphorical - लाक्षणिक

lurid - भड़कीला, सनसनीखेज़

horizon - क्षितिज

doomed - बरबाद होना, अर्थी, बरबाद होना

optimism - आशावाद

His laborious wheezing stopped, then, after a gasp or two, he added:

laborious - परिश्रमी, कठिन/श्रमसाध्य

wheezing - घरघराता, (wheeze)

gasp - चाहना, धक से रह जाना

"Don't you think that, if I had not been the optimist I am, I could not have found in fifteen years some means to cut my throat? And, in the last instance, there were always the walls of my cell to dash my head against."

optimist - आशावादी

Dash - डैश

The shortness of breath took all fire, all animation out of his voice; his great, pale cheeks hung like filled pouches, motionless, without a quiver; but in his blue eyes, narrowed as if peering, there was the same look of confident shrewdness, a little crazy in its fixity, they must have had while the indomitable optimist sat thinking at night in his cell.

shortness - The property of being short

pouches - थैला, बंद स्थान, धानी, थैली

quiver - कांपना

shrewdness - समझदारी, कुशाग्रता

fixity - स्थिरता, दृढ निश्चय, जड़ता

indomitable - अदम्य

Before him, Karl Yundt remained standing, one wing of his faded greenish havelock thrown back cavalierly over his shoulder. Seated in front of the fireplace, Comrade Ossipon, ex-medical student, the principal writer of the F. P. leaflets, stretched out his robust legs, keeping the soles of his boots turned up to the glow in the grate.

faded - धुंधला पड़ जाना, कम होना

greenish - हरा सा, हरा सा, कुछ कुछ हरा

thrown back - वापस फेंका

robust - असभ्य, ज़बर्दस्त, स्वस्थ

soles - तल्ला, पूरा, कुकुरजीभी, एकमात्र

glow - चमकना

A bush of crinkly yellow hair topped his red, freckled face, with a flattened nose and prominent mouth cast in the rough mould of the negro type. His almond-shaped eyes leered languidly over the high cheek-bones.

crinkly - घुँघराला, मुड़ा तुड़ा, सिलवटदार

freckled - चित्ती, चित्ती पड़ना

flattened - समतल होना[करना]

mould - गढ़ना

negro - नीग्रो, हबशी, हब्शी, हबशिन

almond-shaped - (almond-shaped) बादाम आकार

leered - बुरी नज़र से देखना

He wore a grey flannel shirt, the loose ends of a black silk tie hung down the buttoned breast of his serge coat; and his head resting on the back of his chair, his throat largely exposed, he raised to his lips a cigarette in a long wooden tube, puffing jets of smoke straight up at the ceiling.

flannel - बकवास करना, बकवास, बकवास करना

serge - सरज (कपड़ा)

Michaelis pursued his idea-the idea of his solitary reclusion-the thought vouchsafed to his captivity and growing like a faith revealed in visions.

reclusion - क़ैद

vouchsafed - देने की कृपा करना

captivity - क़ैद

He talked to himself, indifferent to the sympathy or hostility of his hearers, indifferent indeed to their presence, from the habit he had acquired of thinking aloud hopefully in the solitude of the four whitewashed walls of his cell, in the sepulchral silence of the great blind pile of bricks near a river, sinister and ugly like a colossal mortuary for the socially drowned.

hostility - दुश्मनी, अदावत, वैर, शत्रुता

hearers - श्रोता, सुनने वाला

aloud - उच्च स्वर में, ज़ोर से

whitewashed - पुताई करना, छिपाना

sepulchral - विषादमय, कब्र का, समाधि का

colossal - विशाल, बहुत बड़ा/बहुत भारी

mortuary - मुर्दाघर, मुरदाघर

socially - समाज द्वारा, समाज द्वारा

drowned - डुबा कर मारना, जलमग्न कर देना

He was no good in discussion, not because any amount of argument could shake his faith, but because the mere fact of hearing another voice disconcerted him painfully, confusing his thoughts at once-these thoughts that for so many years, in a mental solitude more barren than a waterless desert, no living voice had ever combatted, commented, or approved.

barren - व्यर्थ, बंजर भूमि, फलहीन, बांझ

waterless - सूखा, जलरहित, आर्द्रतारहित

combatted - विरोध करना, युद्ध, युद्ध करना

No one interrupted him now, and he made again the confession of his faith, mastering him irresistible and complete like an act of grace: the secret of fate discovered in the material side of life; the economic condition of the world responsible for the past and shaping the future; the source of all history, of all ideas, guiding the mental development of mankind and the very impulses of their passion-

irresistible - अथक

grace - अदा

fate - क़िस्मत, किस्मत, नसीब, तक़दीर

impulses - उत्तेजना, उमंग, आवेगी, आवेग

A harsh laugh from Comrade Ossipon cut the tirade dead short in a sudden faltering of the tongue and a bewildered unsteadiness of the apostle's mildly exalted eyes. He closed them slowly for a moment, as if to collect his routed thoughts. A silence fell; but what with the two gas-jets over the table and the glowing grate the little parlour behind Mr Verloc's shop had become frightfully hot.

harsh - कटु, कर्कश, निर्दयी

tirade - कड़ी निंदा, विषवमन

faltering - हिचक, लड़खड़ाता हुआ

bewildered - हैरान करना, घबरा देना

unsteadiness - अस्थिरता, असंतुलन

mildly - नम्रतापूर्वक, थोड़ा बहुत

exalted - उन्नत करना, प्रशंसा करना

glowing - चमकना, गरम करना, रंगना, लाली

frightfully - बहुत अधिक, अत्यन्त

Mr Verloc, getting off the sofa with ponderous reluctance, opened the door leading into the kitchen to get more air, and thus disclosed the innocent Stevie, seated very good and quiet at a deal table, drawing circles, circles, circles; innumerable circles, concentric, eccentric; a coruscating whirl of circles that by their tangled multitude of repeated curves, uniformity of form, and confusion of intersecting lines suggested a rendering of cosmic chaos, the symbolism of a mad art attempting the inconceivable. The artist never turned his head; and in all his soul's application to the task his back quivered, his thin neck, sunk into a deep hollow at the base of the skull, seemed ready to snap.

ponderous - नीरस, भद्दा, भारी भरकम

innumerable - असंख्य, अमित

concentric - सकेन्द्री

eccentric - सनकी, विचित्र

whirl - घुमाव, चक्कर, घूमना

tangled - उलझाना, उलझा देना, उलझ जाना

multitude - जनसाधारण, झुंड, भीड़, बहु संख्या

uniformity - एकरूपता, एकसमानता

intersecting - परस्पर काटना, एक दूसरे को काटना

rendering - प्रतिदान, व्याख्या, भाषांतर

cosmic - अंतरिक्षीय

chaos - अव्यवस्था, कोलाहल, विशृंखलता

symbolism - प्रतीकवाद, संकेतवाद

inconceivable - अचिन्त्य, कल्पनातीत

snap - प्रेस बटन, टूटना, काट लेना

Mr Verloc, after a grunt of disapproving surprise, returned to the sofa. Alexander Ossipon got up, tall in his threadbare blue serge suit under the low ceiling, shook off the stiffness of long immobility, and strolled away into the kitchen (down two steps) to look over Stevie's shoulder. He came back, pronouncing oracularly: "Very good. Very characteristic, perfectly typical."

grunt - घुरघुराना, भुनभुनाना

disapproving - अस्वीकार करना, नापसंद करना

Alexander - male given name

threadbare - फटीचर, तार तार, घिसा पिटा

shook off - छोड़ दिया

stiffness - कठोरता, कड़ापन, जड़ता, अकड़न

strolled - टहलना, मंथर गति से चलना

"What's very good?" grunted inquiringly Mr Verloc, settled again in the corner of the sofa. The other explained his meaning negligently, with a shade of condescension and a toss of his head towards the kitchen:

grunted - घुरघुराना, भुनभुनाना

inquiringly - जिज्ञासापूर्वक

negligently - लापरवाही से, बेपरवाही से

"Typical of this form of degeneracy-these drawings, I mean."

degeneracy - विकृति, अधोगति

drawings - चित्रकारी, चिट्रंकनअ, चिट्रकारी

"You would call that lad a degenerate, would you?" mumbled Mr Verloc.

lad - बालक, लड़का

degenerate - भ्रष्ट, विकृत व्यक्ति

Comrade Alexander Ossipon-nicknamed the Doctor, ex-medical student without a degree; afterwards wandering lecturer to working-men's associations upon the socialistic aspects of hygiene; author of a popular quasi-medical study (in the form of a cheap pamphlet seized promptly by the police) entitled "The Corroding Vices of the Middle Classes"; special delegate of the more or less mysterious Red Committee, together with Karl Yundt and Michaelis for the work of literary propaganda-turned upon the obscure familiar of at least two Embassies that glance of insufferable, hopelessly dense sufficiency which nothing but the frequentation of science can give to the dulness of common mortals.

nicknamed - उपनाम देना, उपनाम, उपनाम रखना

Lecturer - प्राध्यापक

Hygiene - स्वच्छता

pamphlet - पर्चा

seized - समझना, झपट लेना, पकड़ना

promptly - तुरंत, जल्दी, फुर्ती से, समय पर

entitled - उपाधि देना, अधिकार देना

corroding - संक्षारित करना, खुरचना

delegate - प्रतिनिधि, डेलीगेट, नुमाइंदा

propaganda - अधिप्रचार

insufferable - असहनीय, असह्य

dense - घना

sufficiency - योग्यता, सामर्थ्य, पर्याप्तता

frequentation - आकर्षण

dulness - मूर्खता

mortals - घातक, मर्त्य/मरणशील, भीषण

"That's what he may be called scientifically. Very good type too, altogether, of that sort of degenerate. It's enough to glance at the lobes of his ears. If you read Lombroso-"

scientifically - वैज्ञानिक दृष्टि से

lobes - लौ, लोलकी, पिण्डक

Mr Verloc, moody and spread largely on the sofa, continued to look down the row of his waistcoat buttons; but his cheeks became tinged by a faint blush.

moody - Given to sudden or frequent changes of mind, temperamental

tinged - झलक, भर देना, रंग देना

blush - शरम इत्यादि के वजह से गाल लाल पड़ना

Of late even the merest derivative of the word science (a term in itself inoffensive and of indefinite meaning) had the curious power of evoking a definitely offensive mental vision of Mr Vladimir, in his body as he lived, with an almost supernatural clearness.

merest - केवल, मात्र, झील, पोखरा

derivative - व्युत्पादित, संजात

inoffensive - अनाक्रामक, सहृदय

indefinite - अनिश्चित, संदेहास्पद

evoking - आह्वान करना, ताज़ा करना

supernatural - अतिप्राकृतिक, अलौकिक शक्ति

clearness - स्पष्टता, सफाई

And this phenomenon, deserving justly to be classed amongst the marvels of science, induced in Mr Verloc an emotional state of dread and exasperation tending to express itself in violent swearing. But he said nothing. It was Karl Yundt who was heard, implacable to his last breath.

justly - ईमानदारी से

marvels - आश्चर्य, चमत्कार, अचंभित होना

implacable - कठोर, अप्रशम्य

"Lombroso is an ass."

ass - गधा

Comrade Ossipon met the shock of this blasphemy by an awful, vacant stare. And the other, his extinguished eyes without gleams blackening the deep shadows under the great, bony forehead, mumbled, catching the tip of his tongue between his lips at every second word as though he were chewing it angrily:

blackening - काला होना, (blacken) काला होना

bony - अस्थिनिर्मित, अस्थिमय, हड्डीदार

chewing - सोचना, गोली, चबाना, चर्वण

angrily - क्रोध से, गुस्से में

"Did you ever see such an idiot? For him the criminal is the prisoner. Simple, is it not? What about those who shut him up there-forced him in there? Exactly. Forced him in there. And what is crime? Does he know that, this imbecile who has made his way in this world of gorged fools by looking at the ears and teeth of a lot of poor, luckless devils? Teeth and ears mark the criminal?

gorged - भकोसना, तंग घाटी

devils - शरारती, दुष्ट, व्यक्ति

Do they? And what about the law that marks him still better-the pretty branding instrument invented by the overfed to protect themselves against the hungry? Red-hot applications on their vile skins-hey? Can't you smell and hear from here the thick hide of the people burn and sizzle? That's how criminals are made for your Lombrosos to write their silly stuff about."

vile - अधम, घृणित, घिनौना, अवकृष्ट

sizzle - कड़कड़ाना, सुरसुराना, फनफनाना

The knob of his stick and his legs shook together with passion, whilst the trunk, draped in the wings of the havelock, preserved his historic attitude of defiance. He seemed to sniff the tainted air of social cruelty, to strain his ear for its atrocious sounds. There was an extraordinary force of suggestion in this posturing.

knob - बटन, लौंदा, घुंडी

whilst - जब तक

trunk - तना

draped - आच्छादित, वेष्टित

defiance - अक्खड़पन, चुनौती, अवज्ञा

sniff - नाक सुड़कना, भनक, गंध, सिसकी

tainted - कलंकित करना, दूषित करना, विकृति

cruelty - क्रूरता

atrocious - घटिया, नृशंस, भद्दा, पाशविक

posturing - सितारा मछली

The all but moribund veteran of dynamite wars had been a great actor in his time-actor on platforms, in secret assemblies, in private interviews. The famous terrorist had never in his life raised personally as much as his little finger against the social edifice.

veteran - अनुभवी व्यक्ति

edifice - भवन

He was no man of action; he was not even an orator of torrential eloquence, sweeping the masses along in the rushing noise and foam of a great enthusiasm.

torrential - प्रचण्ड, मूसलाधार, वेगप्रवाही

eloquence - वाकपटुता, वाग्मिता

foam - झाग, कोप, फेन

With a more subtle intention, he took the part of an insolent and venomous evoker of sinister impulses which lurk in the blind envy and exasperated vanity of ignorance, in the suffering and misery of poverty, in all the hopeful and noble illusions of righteous anger, pity, and revolt.

insolent - धृष्ट, अक्खड़, बदतमीज़, उध्दत

venomous - कटु, तीखा, विद्वेषपूर्ण, विषैला

evoker - जादूगर

lurk - छिप कर बैठना, छिपा रहना

envy - ईर्ष्या

exasperated - उत्तेजित करना, उत्तेजित करना

misery - विपत्ति, दुखअ, दुःख/विपत्ती

hopeful - आशाजनक, आशामय, आशावान

righteous - सच्चा, सात्विक, न्यायसंगत

revolt - विद्रोह करना, विरोध, विद्रोह

The shadow of his evil gift clung to him yet like the smell of a deadly drug in an old vial of poison, emptied now, useless, ready to be thrown away upon the rubbish-heap of things that had served their time.

clung - चिपक जाना, टिके रहना

vial - शीशी

rubbish-heap - (rubbish-heap) कचरे की गहराई

Michaelis, the ticket-of-leave apostle, smiled vaguely with his glued lips; his pasty moon face drooped under the weight of melancholy assent. He had been a prisoner himself. His own skin had sizzled under the red-hot brand, he murmured softly. But Comrade Ossipon, nicknamed the Doctor, had got over the shock by that time.

glued - लगाना, सरेश लगाना, सरेश

drooped - झुकना, लटकन, कुम्हलाना

sizzled - कड़कड़ाना, सुरसुराना, फनफनाना

"You don't understand," he began disdainfully, but stopped short, intimidated by the dead blackness of the cavernous eyes in the face turned slowly towards him with a blind stare, as if guided only by the sound. He gave the discussion up, with a slight shrug of the shoulders.

intimidated - धमकाना, भयभीत करना

blackness - state or quality of being black

cavernous - गुफ़ानुमा, कंदरावत्

Stevie, accustomed to move about disregarded, had got up from the kitchen table, carrying off his drawing to bed with him. He had reached the parlour door in time to receive in full the shock of Karl Yundt's eloquent imagery.

accustomed - आदी बना करना, साधना

disregarded - अनादर, अवहेलना करना, उपेक्षा

carrying off - उठाना

eloquent - वाक्पटु, वाग्मितापूर्ण

imagery - अलंकृत भाषा, आकृति

The sheet of paper covered with circles dropped out of his fingers, and he remained staring at the old terrorist, as if rooted suddenly to the spot by his morbid horror and dread of physical pain. Stevie knew very well that hot iron applied to one's skin hurt very much. His scared eyes blazed with indignation: it would hurt terribly. His mouth dropped open.

morbid - रुग्ण, रोगजन्य, रोगग्रस्त

blazed - चमक, लौ, चिन्ह, चमकना, जलना

Michaelis by staring unwinkingly at the fire had regained that sentiment of isolation necessary for the continuity of his thought. His optimism had begun to flow from his lips. He saw Capitalism doomed in its cradle, born with the poison of the principle of competition in its system.

regained - पुनः प्राप्त करना

sentiment - भावना, विचार, मनोभाव, भावुकता

isolation - सितारा मछली, एकांत, अलगाव

continuity - पूरक, निरंतरता, दृश्यावली

cradle - पालना, खटोला

The great capitalists devouring the little capitalists, concentrating the power and the tools of production in great masses, perfecting industrial processes, and in the madness of self-aggrandisement only preparing, organising, enriching, making ready the lawful inheritance of the suffering proletariat.

capitalists - पूँजीवादी, पूँजीपति

devouring - नष्ट करना, खा जाना

aggrandisement - विवर्धन

organising - आयोजित करना, योजना बनाना

enriching - उपजाऊ बनाना

lawful - असली, कानूनी, वैध, विधि स्वीकृत

inheritance - उत्तराधिकार, उत्तराधिकारी

Michaelis pronounced the great word "Patience"-and his clear blue glance, raised to the low ceiling of Mr Verloc's parlour, had a character of seraphic trustfulness. In the doorway Stevie, calmed, seemed sunk in hebetude.

seraphic - देवदूतीय, देवदूत के समान

trustfulness - विश्वासपूर्णता

doorway - द्वार, दरवाजा

hebetude - mental lethargy or dullness

Comrade Ossipon's face twitched with exasperation.

twitched - झटकना, झटका, चिकोटी काटना

"Then It's no use doing anything-no use whatever."

It's no use - यह कुछ फायदे नहीं है।

"I don't say that," protested Michaelis gently. His vision of truth had grown so intense that the sound of a strange voice failed to rout it this time. He continued to look down at the red coals. Preparation for the future was necessary, and he was willing to admit that the great change would perhaps come in the upheaval of a revolution.

gently - सावधानी से, शिष्टता से

rout - हरा देना

But he argued that revolutionary propaganda was a delicate work of high conscience. It was the education of the masters of the world. It should be as careful as the education given to kings.

He would have it advance its tenets cautiously, even timidly, in our ignorance of the effect that may be produced by any given economic change upon the happiness, the morals, the intellect, the history of mankind. For history is made with tools, not with ideas; and everything is changed by economic conditions-art, philosophy, love, virtue-truth itself!

tenets - सिद्धांत, सिद्धान्त

cautiously - सतर्कतापूर्वक

timidly - डरते डरते, संकोचपूर्वक

intellect - बुद्धि

virtue - सदाचार, गुण, अच्छाई, नेकी

The coals in the grate settled down with a slight crash; and Michaelis, the hermit of visions in the desert of a penitentiary, got up impetuously. Round like a distended balloon, he opened his short, thick arms, as if in a pathetically hopeless attempt to embrace and hug to his breast a self-regenerated universe. He gasped with ardour.

Hermit - संत, एकांतवासी, तपस्वी

penitentiary - दण्डात्मक, बंदीगृह, सुधारात्मक

impetuously - जल्दबाज़ी से, जल्दबाज़ी से

hopeless - निराशाजनक, निराश, हताश, निकम्मा

hug - आलिंगन

regenerated - फिर पैदा करना

gasped - चाहना, धक से रह जाना

ardour - उत्ताप

"The future is as certain as the past-slavery, feudalism, individualism, collectivism. This is the statement of a law, not an empty prophecy."

slavery - दासता, गुलामगिरी, गुलामी

feudalism - सामंतशाही, जागीरदारी प्रथा

individualism - व्यक्तिवाद

collectivism - सामूहिकवाद, समूहवाद

prophecy - भविष्यवाणी

The disdainful pout of Comrade Ossipon's thick lips accentuated the negro type of his face.

disdainful - अवज्ञापूर्ण, अवहेलनापूर्ण

pout - मुंह फुलाना

accentuated - जोर दना, जोर देना

"Nonsense," he said calmly enough. "There is no law and no certainty. The teaching propaganda be hanged. What the people knows does not matter, were its knowledge ever so accurate. The only thing that matters to us is the emotional state of the masses. Without emotion there is no action."

He paused, then added with modest firmness:

firmness - मजबूती, दृढ़ता

"I am speaking now to you scientifically-scientifically-Eh? What did you say, Verloc?"

"Nothing," growled from the sofa Mr Verloc, who, provoked by the abhorrent sound, had merely muttered a "damn."

abhorrent - घृणित, घिनौना, बीभत्स, घृणास्पद

damn - दमन

The venomous spluttering of the old terrorist without teeth was heard.

spluttering - झूमना, (splutter) झूमना

"Do you know how I would call the nature of the present economic conditions? I would call it cannibalistic. That's what it is! They are nourishing their greed on the quivering flesh and the warm blood of the people-nothing else."

cannibalistic - tending toward cannibalism

nourishing - विकसित करना, पोषित करना

greed - लालच, (gree)

quivering - कंपन, तुणीर, झुरझुरी, तरकश, झपक

flesh - लहम, क्रव्य, मांस

Stevie swallowed the terrifying statement with an audible gulp, and at once, as though it had been swift poison, sank limply in a sitting posture on the steps of the kitchen door.

audible - कर्णगोचर, श्रव्य

gulp - निगलना, घूँट भरना, घूँट, गटकना

posture - मुद्रा, रूख, दिखावा करना

Michaelis gave no sign of having heard anything. His lips seemed glued together for good; not a quiver passed over his heavy cheeks. With troubled eyes he looked for his round, hard hat, and put it on his round head. His round and obese body seemed to float low between the chairs under the sharp elbow of Karl Yundt.

obese - सितारा मछली, स्थूलकाय

The old terrorist, raising an uncertain and clawlike hand, gave a swaggering tilt to a black felt sombrero shading the hollows and ridges of his wasted face. He got in motion slowly, striking the floor with his stick at every step.

uncertain - अविश्वसनीय, अनिश्चित, अस्थिर

clawlike - क्लॉ जैसा

swaggering - झुमकीलाहट, (swagger) झुमकीलाहट

sombrero - सितारा मछली

ridges - ऊपर उठाना, ढालू टीला{ या पहाड़ी}

It was rather an affair to get him out of the house because, now and then, he would stop, as if to think, and did not offer to move again till impelled forward by Michaelis. The gentle apostle grasped his arm with brotherly care; and behind them, his hands in his pockets, the robust Ossipon yawned vaguely.

impelled - प्रेरित करना, ठेलना, धकेलना

grasped - समझना, पाने का प्रयत्न करना

brotherly - शिखर, भ्रातृवत्, भ्रातृसदृश

yawned - फैल जाना, जम्हाई, उबासी

A blue cap with a patent leather peak set well at the back of his yellow bush of hair gave him the aspect of a Norwegian sailor bored with the world after a thundering spree. Mr Verloc saw his guests off the premises, attending them bareheaded, his heavy overcoat hanging open, his eyes on the ground.

patent leather - पैटेंट चमड़ा

Peak - चोटी, शिखर, शीर्ष

Norwegian - नार्वेजियन, नॉर्वेजियाई

thundering - कानफोड़ू, (thunder), गरज

spree - गतिविधि, फ़िजूलखर्च करना

premises - प्रतिज्ञा, आधार वाक्य

bareheaded - having no covering on the head

He closed the door behind their backs with restrained violence, turned the key, shot the bolt. He was not satisfied with his friends. In the light of Mr Vladimir's philosophy of bomb throwing they appeared hopelessly futile.

restrained - रोकना, नियन्ट्रित करना

bolt - चटखनी

futile - फ़ज़ूल, अकारथ

The part of Mr Verloc in revolutionary politics having been to observe, he could not all at once, either in his own home or in larger assemblies, take the initiative of action. He had to be cautious.

cautious - सावधान, सतर्क

Moved by the just indignation of a man well over forty, menaced in what is dearest to him-his repose and his security-he asked himself scornfully what else could have been expected from such a lot, this Karl Yundt, this Michaelis-this Ossipon.

repose - आराम

scornfully - अवज्ञापूर्वक

Pausing in his intention to turn off the gas burning in the middle of the shop, Mr Verloc descended into the abyss of moral reflections. With the insight of a kindred temperament he pronounced his verdict. A lazy lot-this Karl Yundt, nursed by a blear-eyed old woman, a woman he had years ago enticed away from a friend, and afterwards had tried more than once to shake off into the gutter.

descended - उतरना, उतारना, नीचे उतरना

abyss - checkअथाह

reflections - झलक, परछाई, आरोप, दोष, चिंतन

kindred - रिश्तेदार, सदृश, सजातीय, संबंधित

temperament - स्वभाव

verdict - निर्णय, फ़ैसला

blear - ब्लीअर

enticed - लुभाना, फुसलाना

Jolly lucky for Yundt that she had persisted in coming up time after time, or else there would have been no one now to help him out of the 'bus by the Green Park railings, where that spectre took its constitutional crawl every fine morning. When that indomitable snarling old witch died the swaggering spectre would have to vanish too-there would be an end to fiery Karl Yundt.

persisted - डटे रहना, बना रहना, डटे रहना

up time - उप समय

spectre - भूत, प्रेत, काली छाया

constitutional - स्वास्थ्य के लिए सैर

crawl - रेंगना, धीरे धीरे चलना

snarling - the act of producing a snarl

old witch - वृद्ध जादूगर

vanish - ओझल हो जाना, समाप्त हो जाना

fiery - क्रोधित, जोशीला, अग्निमय

And Mr Verloc's morality was offended also by the optimism of Michaelis, annexed by his wealthy old lady, who had taken lately to sending him to a cottage she had in the country. The ex-prisoner could moon about the shady lanes for days together in a delicious and humanitarian idleness.

morality - सदाचार, अख़लाक़, नैतिकता

annexed - उपभवन

humanitarian - परोपकारी, मानवतावादी

As to Ossipon, that beggar was sure to want for nothing as long as there were silly girls with savings-bank books in the world. And Mr Verloc, temperamentally identical with his associates, drew fine distinctions in his mind on the strength of insignificant differences.

beggar - याचक, भिक्षुक, भिखमंगा

savings-bank - (savings-bank) बैंक बचत

temperamentally - स्वभाव की दृष्टि से

distinctions - प्रतिष्ठा, पार्थक्य, अन्तर

He drew them with a certain complacency, because the instinct of conventional respectability was strong within him, being only overcome by his dislike of all kinds of recognised labour-a temperamental defect which he shared with a large proportion of revolutionary reformers of a given social state.

complacency - संतोष, आत्मसंतोष

respectability - प्रतिष्ठा, सम्माननीयता, माननीयता

temperamental - स्वभावगत, खास स्वभाव वाला

defect - दोष, खोट

reformers - सुधारक, सुधारने वाला, संशोधक

social state - सामाजिक स्थिति

For obviously one does not revolt against the advantages and opportunities of that state, but against the price which must be paid for the same in the coin of accepted morality, self-restraint, and toil. The majority of revolutionists are the enemies of discipline and fatigue mostly.

restraint - संयम, अवरोध, रोक, प्रतिबंध

revolutionists - क्रान्तिकारी

There are natures too, to whose sense of justice the price exacted looms up monstrously enormous, odious, oppressive, worrying, humiliating, extortionate, intolerable. Those are the fanatics. The remaining portion of social rebels is accounted for by vanity, the mother of all noble and vile illusions, the companion of poets, reformers, charlatans, prophets, and incendiaries.

looms - अस्पष्ट छाया दीखना, हावी होना

monstrously - भद्दे ढंग से, भद्दे ढंग से

odious - घृणित, घिनौना, अप्रिय

oppressive - दमनकारी, दमघोंटू, अत्याचारपूर्ण

humiliating - नीचा दिखाना, अपमानित करना

extortionate - अतिशय

fanatics - कट्टर, कट्टरपंथी, उन्मादी

rebels - राज विरोधी, विद्रोही

companion - साथी

charlatans - नीम हकीम्, झूठा वैद्य

prophets - मुहम्मद साहब, भविष्यवक्ता

incendiaries - अग्नि बम, दाहक, उत्तेजक

Lost for a whole minute in the abyss of meditation, Mr Verloc did not reach the depth of these abstract considerations. Perhaps he was not able. In any case he had not the time. He was pulled up painfully by the sudden recollection of Mr Vladimir, another of his associates, whom in virtue of subtle moral affinities he was capable of judging correctly. He considered him as dangerous.

recollection - स्मरण, स्मरण शक्ति, याद, स्मृति

affinities - संबंध, सम्बन्ध, आकर्षण

A shade of envy crept into his thoughts. Loafing was all very well for these fellows, who knew not Mr Vladimir, and had women to fall back upon; whereas he had a woman to provide for-

crept - जाना, डर, छिपकर घुसना, घुसना

loafing - आलसी, (loaf) आलसी

At this point, by a simple association of ideas, Mr Verloc was brought face to face with the necessity of going to bed some time or other that evening. Then why not go now-at once? He sighed. The necessity was not so normally pleasurable as it ought to have been for a man of his age and temperament. He dreaded the demon of sleeplessness, which he felt had marked him for its own.

sighed - साँस लेना, तरसना, आह भरना

pleasurable - सुखदायक, सुखद, आनन्ददायक

dreaded - डर, डरना, से डरना, भय/डर

demon - दानव, दैत्य, देव, शैतान

sleeplessness - अनिद्रा

He raised his arm, and turned off the flaring gas-jet above his head.

flaring - धधकना, फैल जाना, फैला हुआ होना

A bright band of light fell through the parlour door into the part of the shop behind the counter. It enabled Mr Verloc to ascertain at a glance the number of silver coins in the till. These were but few; and for the first time since he opened his shop he took a commercial survey of its value. This survey was unfavourable. He had gone into trade for no commercial reasons.

ascertain - पता लगाना, सुनिश्चित करना

silver coins - रजत सिक्के

He had been guided in the selection of this peculiar line of business by an instinctive leaning towards shady transactions, where money is picked up easily. Moreover, it did not take him out of his own sphere-the sphere which is watched by the police.

instinctive - सहज, स्वाभाविक

transactions - लेन देन, कार्रवाई, सौदा

sphere - गोला

On the contrary, it gave him a publicly confessed standing in that sphere, and as Mr Verloc had unconfessed relations which made him familiar with yet careless of the police, there was a distinct advantage in such a situation. But as a means of livelihood it was by itself insufficient.

publicly - सार्वजनिक रूप से, खुले आम

unconfessed - अपने पाप स्वीकार न करने वाला

livelihood - आजीविका, जीविका, जीवननिर्वाह

insufficient - अपर्याप्त

He took the cash-box out of the drawer, and turning to leave the shop, became aware that Stevie was still downstairs.

cash-box - (cash-box) नकद बक्स

drawer - दराज

What on earth is he doing there? Mr Verloc asked himself. What's the meaning of these antics? He looked dubiously at his brother-in-law, but he did not ask him for information. Mr Verloc's intercourse with Stevie was limited to the casual mutter of a morning, after breakfast, "My boots," and even that was more a communication at large of a need than a direct order or request.

antics - मज़ाकिया हरकत्

dubiously - संदिग्ध रूप से

intercourse - संवाद

mutter - बड़बड़ाना, (mut) बड़बड़ाना

Mr Verloc perceived with some surprise that he did not know really what to say to Stevie. He stood still in the middle of the parlour, and looked into the kitchen in silence. Nor yet did he know what would happen if he did say anything. And this appeared very queer to Mr Verloc in view of the fact, borne upon him suddenly, that he had to provide for this fellow too.

He had never given a moment's thought till then to that aspect of Stevie's existence.

Positively he did not know how to speak to the lad. He watched him gesticulating and murmuring in the kitchen. Stevie prowled round the table like an excited animal in a cage. A tentative "Hadn't you better go to bed now?" produced no effect whatever; and Mr Verloc, abandoning the stony contemplation of his brother-in-law's behaviour, crossed the parlour wearily, cash-box in hand.

positively - निश्चित रूप से, निश्चित रुप से

gesticulating - इशारा करना, इशारा करना

murmuring - फुसफुसाता

prowled - शिकार के लिये दबे पाँव घूमना

cage - क़फ़स, पिंजड़ा, कफस, पिंजरा

tentative - आज़माइशी, आजमाइशी, अनिश्चित सा

stony - कठोर, पथरीला, पत्थर सा सख़्त

contemplation - ध्यान, विचार, निदिध्यासन, चिंतन

wearily - तके हुए अंदाज़ में

The cause of the general lassitude he felt while climbing the stairs being purely mental, he became alarmed by its inexplicable character. He hoped he was not sickening for anything. He stopped on the dark landing to examine his sensations. But a slight and continuous sound of snoring pervading the obscurity interfered with their clearness. The sound came from his mother-in-law's room.

lassitude - थकान

sickening - घिनौना, उबाऊ, वीभत्स

sensations - संवेदना, उत्तेजना, जोश, ज्ञान

snoring - खर्राटे, खर्राटा

pervading - व्याप्त होना, में व्याप्त होना

obscurity - अंधकार, कठिनाई, अस्पष्टता

interfered - बीच मेँ पड़ना, बाधा डालना

Another one to provide for, he thought-and on this thought walked into the bedroom.

Mrs Verloc had fallen asleep with the lamp (no gas was laid upstairs) turned up full on the table by the side of the bed. The light thrown down by the shade fell dazzlingly on the white pillow sunk by the weight of her head reposing with closed eyes and dark hair done up in several plaits for the night. She woke up with the sound of her name in her ears, and saw her husband standing over her.

thrown down - नीचे फेंक दिया

dazzlingly - आश्चर्यजनक रूप से

pillow - सिरहाना, शिरोपधान

done up - सजाया हुआ

plaits - चोटी, चुन्नट, चोटी करना, चुटिया

"Winnie! Winnie!"

At first she did not stir, lying very quiet and looking at the cash-box in Mr Verloc's hand. But when she understood that her brother was "capering all over the place downstairs" she swung out in one sudden movement on to the edge of the bed.

stir - हिलाना-डुलाना

capering - मौज मस्ती, कूदना

swung - परिवर्तन, लटकना, बदलना, घूमना

Her bare feet, as if poked through the bottom of an unadorned, sleeved calico sack buttoned tightly at neck and wrists, felt over the rug for the slippers while she looked upward into her husband's face.

bare - अनावृत

unadorned - अनलंकृत, सादा

sleeved - आवरण, बाँह/आस्तीन, आवरण नली

calico - छींट, छीँट

sack - बोरा, बोरी

tightly - ठसाठस, कस कर, कस कर

rug - ग़ालीचा, दरी

slippers - हवाई चप्पल, स्लीपर, फिसलने वाला

upward - ऊपर का, ऊपर, महँगाई की ओर

"I don't know how to manage him," Mr Verloc explained peevishly. "Won't do to leave him downstairs alone with the lights."

peevishly - चिड़चिड़े ढंग से

She said nothing, glided across the room swiftly, and the door closed upon her white form.

glided - उतरना, निकल जाना

Mr Verloc deposited the cash-box on the night table, and began the operation of undressing by flinging his overcoat on to a distant chair. His coat and waistcoat followed. He walked about the room in his stockinged feet, and his burly figure, with the hands worrying nervously at his throat, passed and repassed across the long strip of looking-glass in the door of his wife's wardrobe.

undressing - अंगूठे उतारना, (undress), कपड़े उतार्ना

flinging - डालना, धक्का देना

nervously - घबराए हुए अंदाझ्ॅअ में

strip - उघाड़ना, आवरण हटाना

wardrobe - अलमारी

Then after slipping his braces off his shoulders he pulled up violently the venetian blind, and leaned his forehead against the cold window-pane-a fragile film of glass stretched between him and the enormity of cold, black, wet, muddy, inhospitable accumulation of bricks, slates, and stones, things in themselves unlovely and unfriendly to man.

braces - तैयार करना, तैयार करना, पट्टी

venetian - वेनिस का, वेनिसवासी

fragile - नाज़ुक

enormity - महापाप, भयावहता, नृशंसता

Muddy - मटमैला, मैला, गंदा करना, दलदली

inhospitable - , असह्य, असत्कारशील, असत्कारी

accumulation - जमाव, संचयन, संग्रहण, संचित

slates - उम्मीदवारों की सूची

unlovely - अनाकर्षक

unfriendly - अव्यवहारिक

Mr Verloc felt the latent unfriendliness of all out of doors with a force approaching to positive bodily anguish. There is no occupation that fails a man more completely than that of a secret agent of police. It's like your horse suddenly falling dead under you in the midst of an uninhabited and thirsty plain.

latent - प्रच्छन्न, अप्रकट, अविकसित

unfriendliness - शत्रुता, दुश्मनी, अमित्रता

bodily - शारीरिक

anguish - वेदना

midst - बीच

uninhabited - निर्जन, ग़ैर आबाद, अवासित

The comparison occurred to Mr Verloc because he had sat astride various army horses in his time, and had now the sensation of an incipient fall. The prospect was as black as the window-pane against which he was leaning his forehead.

astride - दोनो तरफ, आर पार

incipient - आरंभिक, प्रारंभी

And suddenly the face of Mr Vladimir, clean-shaved and witty, appeared enhaloed in the glow of its rosy complexion like a sort of pink seal, impressed on the fatal darkness.

witty - हाजिर जवाब, विनोदपूर्ण

seal - मुद्रा

This luminous and mutilated vision was so ghastly physically that Mr Verloc started away from the window, letting down the venetian blind with a great rattle. Discomposed and speechless with the apprehension of more such visions, he beheld his wife re-enter the room and get into bed in a calm business-like manner which made him feel hopelessly lonely in the world.

luminous - चमकीला, चमकदार, उद्दीप्त

mutilated - काटना, बुरी तरह नष्ट कर देना

ghastly - विवर्ण, विकट, भयंकर, बेकार, खराब

physically - शारीरिक रुप से

letting down - नीचे गिराना

rattle - खड़खड़ाना

discomposed - अशांत कर देना

speechless - मूक, गूंगा, अवाक्, वांगमय

apprehension - डर, भय, समझ, आशंका, गिरफ्तारी

Mrs Verloc expressed her surprise at seeing him up yet.

"I don't feel very well," he muttered, passing his hands over his moist brow.

moist - नम

brow - शिखर, मस्तक, भौंह

"Giddiness?"

giddiness - चक्कर

"Yes. Not at all well."

Mrs Verloc, with all the placidity of an experienced wife, expressed a confident opinion as to the cause, and suggested the usual remedies; but her husband, rooted in the middle of the room, shook his lowered head sadly.

remedies - ठीक करना, उपाय, सुधारना

"You'll catch cold standing there," she observed.

Mr Verloc made an effort, finished undressing, and got into bed. Down below in the quiet, narrow street measured footsteps approached the house, then died away unhurried and firm, as if the passer-by had started to pace out all eternity, from gas-lamp to gas-lamp in a night without end; and the drowsy ticking of the old clock on the landing became distinctly audible in the bedroom.

Footsteps - चरणचिन्ह, पैरों की आहट

unhurried - धैर्यवान, बिना हड़बड़ी का

eternity - अनंत काल, अनन्तकाल, अमरत्व

drowsy - आलस्यपूर्ण, निद्रालु, ऊँघता हुआ

ticking - धारी वाला मोटा कपड़्, (tic)

distinctly - in a distinct manner

Mrs Verloc, on her back, and staring at the ceiling, made a remark.

"Takings very small to-day."

takings - मनोहर, आसानी से मिलना, आकर्षक

Mr Verloc, in the same position, cleared his throat as if for an important statement, but merely inquired:

inquired - पूछना, पता लगाना, छानबीन करना

"Did you turn off the gas downstairs?"

"Yes; I did," answered Mrs Verloc conscientiously. "That poor boy is in a very excited state to-night," she murmured, after a pause which lasted for three ticks of the clock.

conscientiously - कर्तव्यनिष्ठा से

ticks - घड़ी की टिक टिक

Mr Verloc cared nothing for Stevie's excitement, but he felt horribly wakeful, and dreaded facing the darkness and silence that would follow the extinguishing of the lamp. This dread led him to make the remark that Stevie had disregarded his suggestion to go to bed.

wakeful - चौकन्ना, जागरूकता, सजग

extinguishing - नष्ट करना, बुझा देना

Mrs Verloc, falling into the trap, started to demonstrate at length to her husband that this was not "impudence" of any sort, but simply "excitement." There was no young man of his age in London more willing and docile than Stephen, she affirmed; none more affectionate and ready to please, and even useful, as long as people did not upset his poor head.

docile - अधीन, विनीत, सीख सकने योग्य

affirmed - दृढतापूर्वक कहना

affectionate - स्नेही, स्नेहमय, fond

Mrs Verloc, turning towards her recumbent husband, raised herself on her elbow, and hung over him in her anxiety that he should believe Stevie to be a useful member of the family. That ardour of protecting compassion exalted morbidly in her childhood by the misery of another child tinged her sallow cheeks with a faint dusky blush, made her big eyes gleam under the dark lids.

recumbent - शयित, लेटा हुआ

morbidly - रुग्ण रूप से, रुग्ण रूप से

tinged - घंटी की आवाज, टनटनाहट

sallow - पीला

dusky - मटमैला, श्यामल

gleam - किरण डालना

lids - रोकना, ढक्कन, रूकावट, आच्छद

Mrs Verloc then looked younger; she looked as young as Winnie used to look, and much more animated than the Winnie of the Belgravian mansion days had ever allowed herself to appear to gentlemen lodgers. Mr Verloc's anxieties had prevented him from attaching any sense to what his wife was saying. It was as if her voice were talking on the other side of a very thick wall.

animated - जीवन संचार करना/प्राण डालना

It was her aspect that recalled him to himself.

He appreciated this woman, and the sentiment of this appreciation, stirred by a display of something resembling emotion, only added another pang to his mental anguish. When her voice ceased he moved uneasily, and said:

appreciation - समालोचना, वृद्धि, आभार, सराहना

pang - तेज पीड़ा

uneasily - बेचैनी से, बेचैनी से

"I haven't been feeling well for the last few days."

He might have meant this as an opening to a complete confidence; but Mrs Verloc laid her head on the pillow again, and staring upward, went on:

"That boy hears too much of what is talked about here. If I had known they were coming to-night I would have seen to it that he went to bed at the same time I did. He was out of his mind with something he overheard about eating people's flesh and drinking blood. What's the good of talking like that?"

overheard - संयोग से सुन लेना

There was a note of indignant scorn in her voice. Mr Verloc was fully responsive now.

indignant - रुष्ट

responsive - उत्तरदायी, उत्साहपूर्वक अनुकूल

"Ask Karl Yundt," he growled savagely.

savagely - शिष्टाचारहीनतः, अशिष्टतः

Mrs Verloc, with great decision, pronounced Karl Yundt "a disgusting old man." She declared openly her affection for Michaelis. Of the robust Ossipon, in whose presence she always felt uneasy behind an attitude of stony reserve, she said nothing whatever. And continuing to talk of that brother, who had been for so many years an object of care and fears:

disgusting - गुस्सा, घृणा करना, घृणा

"He isn't fit to hear what's said here. He believes it's all true. He knows no better. He gets into his passions over it."

Mr Verloc made no comment.

"He glared at me, as if he didn't know who I was, when I went downstairs. His heart was going like a hammer. He can't help being excitable. I woke mother up, and asked her to sit with him till he went to sleep. It isn't his fault. He's no trouble when he's left alone."

glared - चमक, गुस्से से घूरना, चमकना

excitable - उत्तेजनशील

Mr Verloc made no comment.

"I wish he had never been to school," Mrs Verloc began again brusquely. "He's always taking away those newspapers from the window to read. He gets a red face poring over them. We don't get rid of a dozen numbers in a month. They only take up room in the front window. And Mr Ossipon brings every week a pile of these F. P. tracts to sell at a halfpenny each.

brusquely - रुखाई से, रूखेपन से, रुखाई से

poring - छिद्र, रंध्र, रोमकूप

tracts - क्षेत्र, नलीई, इलाका, पुस्तिका

halfpenny - British coin worth half of one penny

I wouldn't give a halfpenny for the whole lot. It's silly reading-that's what it is. There's no sale for it. The other day Stevie got hold of one, and there was a story in it of a German soldier officer tearing half-off the ear of a recruit, and nothing was done to him for it. The brute! I couldn't do anything with Stevie that afternoon. The story was enough, too, to make one's blood boil.

German - जरमन, जर्मन

brute - वहशी

But what's the use of printing things like that? We aren't German slaves here, thank God. It's not our business-is it?"

Mr Verloc made no reply.

"I had to take the carving knife from the boy," Mrs Verloc continued, a little sleepily now. "He was shouting and stamping and sobbing. He can't stand the notion of any cruelty. He would have stuck that officer like a pig if he had seen him then. It's true, too! Some people don't deserve much mercy.

carving knife - कार्विंग नाइफ

sleepily - उनींदे ढंग से, उनींदे ढंग से

sobbing - action of the verb ", to sob"

mercy - दया, करुणा

" Mrs Verloc's voice ceased, and the expression of her motionless eyes became more and more contemplative and veiled during the long pause. "Comfortable, dear?" she asked in a faint, far-away voice. "Shall I put out the light now?"

more contemplative - विचारशील

The dreary conviction that there was no sleep for him held Mr Verloc mute and hopelessly inert in his fear of darkness. He made a great effort.

dreary - नीरस, निराशाजनक, मन्द उदास

conviction - अपराध सिद्धि, दोषसिद्धि

mute - मूक

inert - जड़, अक्षम, अक्रिय

"Yes. Put it out," he said at last in a hollow tone.

CHAPTER IV

Most of the thirty or so little tables covered by red cloths with a white design stood ranged at right angles to the deep brown wainscoting of the underground hall.

deep brown - गहरा भूरा

wainscoting - काष्ठास्तरण

Bronze chandeliers with many globes depended from the low, slightly vaulted ceiling, and the fresco paintings ran flat and dull all round the walls without windows, representing scenes of the chase and of outdoor revelry in medićval costumes. Varlets in green jerkins brandished hunting knives and raised on high tankards of foaming beer.

bronze - कांसा, कांसी, पीतल, कांस्य

chandeliers - झाड्ॅअ फानुसअ, झूमर, दीपवृक्ष

vaulted - तहखाना, शव कक्ष

fresco - भित्तिचित्र

paintings - चित्र, चित्रकारी, चित्रकला

revelry - आनन्द, हर्ष, आमोद प्रमोद, आनंद

varlets - दुष्ट, वारलेट

jerkins - चुस्त जाकेट, मिर्ज़ई

brandished - घुमाना

hunting knives - शिकारी चाकू

tankards - बडा प्याला, बीयर का कप

foaming - फोमिंग, (foam), झाग

"Unless I am very much mistaken, you are the man who would know the inside of this confounded affair," said the robust Ossipon, leaning over, his elbows far out on the table and his feet tucked back completely under his chair. His eyes stared with wild eagerness.

tucked - सितारा मछली, मिठाई, लपेटना

eagerness - उत्सुकता, औत्सुक्य, तत्परता

An upright semi-grand piano near the door, flanked by two palms in pots, executed suddenly all by itself a valse tune with aggressive virtuosity. The din it raised was deafening. When it ceased, as abruptly as it had started, the be-spectacled, dingy little man who faced Ossipon behind a heavy glass mug full of beer emitted calmly what had the sound of a general proposition.

upright - सरल, सीधा, सीधे, खड़ा स्तम्भ

flanked - मकान का किनारा, बीच में

valse - वाल्ट्स नृत्य

virtuosity - कौसल

din - हो हल्ला, शोरगुल, शोरगुल करना

deafening - कानफोड़ू, (deafen) कानफोड़ू

spectacled - चश्माधारी

mug - प्याला

proposition - समस्या, वचन, सुझाव

"In principle what one of us may or may not know as to any given fact can't be a matter for inquiry to the others."

"Certainly not," Comrade Ossipon agreed in a quiet undertone. "In principle."

undertone - हल्का रंग, हलका रंग

With his big florid face held between his hands he continued to stare hard, while the dingy little man in spectacles coolly took a drink of beer and stood the glass mug back on the table.

florid - रक्ताभ, आलंकारिक, ललमुहाँ

spectacles - प्रदर्शन, तमाशा, दृश्य, चश्मा

coolly - शान्ति से, उदासीनतापूर्वक

His flat, large ears departed widely from the sides of his skull, which looked frail enough for Ossipon to crush between thumb and forefinger; the dome of the forehead seemed to rest on the rim of the spectacles; the flat cheeks, of a greasy, unhealthy complexion, were merely smudged by the miserable poverty of a thin dark whisker.

crush - चूर चूर करना, दबाना, जमघट

dome - गुंबज, गुंबदाकार, गुम्बद, गुंबद

rim - किनारा, बाढ़

greasy - चिकना, चाटुकारितापूर्ण, तैलीय

unhealthy - अस्वस्थ, असाधारण, अस्वास्थ्यकर

smudged - फैल जाना, दाग, गंदा करना, धब्बा

The lamentable inferiority of the whole physique was made ludicrous by the supremely self-confident bearing of the individual. His speech was curt, and he had a particularly impressive manner of keeping silent.

lamentable - निराशाजनक, शोक योग्य

inferiority - हीनता

ludicrous - बेतुका, हास्यास्पद, उपहासपूर्ण

self-confident - (self-confident) आत्मविश्वासी

keeping silent - चुप रहना

Ossipon spoke again from between his hands in a mutter.

"Have you been out much to-day?"

"No. I stayed in bed all the morning," answered the other. "Why?"

"Oh! Nothing," said Ossipon, gazing earnestly and quivering inwardly with the desire to find out something, but obviously intimidated by the little man's overwhelming air of unconcern. When talking with this comrade-which happened but rarely-the big Ossipon suffered from a sense of moral and even physical insignificance. However, he ventured another question. "Did you walk down here?"

gazing - एक्टक देखने ताला, टकटकी

earnestly - ईमानदारी से, ईमानदारी से

overwhelming - पराजित करना, वश में करना

unconcern - उदासीनता, निश्चिंतता

insignificance - महत्वहीनता, असार्थकता

ventured - जाने का साहस करना

"No; omnibus," the little man answered readily enough. He lived far away in Islington, in a small house down a shabby street, littered with straw and dirty paper, where out of school hours a troop of assorted children ran and squabbled with a shrill, joyless, rowdy clamour.

omnibus - सर्वसंग्रह कार्यक्रम

readily - तरन्त ही, सरलता से, सरलता से

shabby - अनुचित, जीर्ण शीर्ण

straw - पुआल, तिनका

assorted - छाँटना

squabbled - बाल की खाल निकालना, तकरार करना

shrill - तीखा, तीक्ष्ण, कर्णभेदी

joyless - निरानंद

rowdy - शरारती, उग्र, झगड़ालू व्यक्ति

clamour - कोलाहल

His single back room, remarkable for having an extremely large cupboard, he rented furnished from two elderly spinsters, dressmakers in a humble way with a clientele of servant girls mostly. He had a heavy padlock put on the cupboard, but otherwise he was a model lodger, giving no trouble, and requiring practically no attendance.

spinsters - सूत कातने वाला

dressmakers - स्ट्रियों के वस्ट्र बनाने वाला दरज़ी

humble - नम्र, विनीत, सीधा सादा

clientele - body of clients who frequent an establishment

padlock - ताला

lodger - आवासी

attendance - उपस्थिति, संख्या

His oddities were that he insisted on being present when his room was being swept, and that when he went out he locked his door, and took the key away with him.

oddities - विचित्रता, विषमता

Ossipon had a vision of these round black-rimmed spectacles progressing along the streets on the top of an omnibus, their self-confident glitter falling here and there on the walls of houses or lowered upon the heads of the unconscious stream of people on the pavements.

black-rimmed spectacles - काले किनारे वाले धूपियाँ

pavements - पटरी, छज्जा, फर्श

The ghost of a sickly smile altered the set of Ossipon's thick lips at the thought of the walls nodding, of people running for life at the sight of those spectacles. If they had only known! What a panic! He murmured interrogatively: "Been sitting long here?"

sickly - अस्वस्थ, विवर्ण, अस्वास्थ्यकर

nodding - हँसते हुए, (nod) हँसते हुए

interrogatively - जिज्ञसापूर्वक

"An hour or more," answered the other negligently, and took a pull at the dark beer. All his movements-the way he grasped the mug, the act of drinking, the way he set the heavy glass down and folded his arms-had a firmness, an assured precision which made the big and muscular Ossipon, leaning forward with staring eyes and protruding lips, look the picture of eager indecision.

precision - यथार्थता, सूक्ष्मतामापी

muscular - मांसपेशीय, पेशीय, हृष्ट पुष्ट

eager - उत्सुक

indecision - अनिश्चय, हिचकिचाहट

"An hour," he said. "Then it may be you haven't heard yet the news I've heard just now-in the street. Have you?"

The little man shook his head negatively the least bit. But as he gave no indication of curiosity Ossipon ventured to add that he had heard it just outside the place. A newspaper boy had yelled the thing under his very nose, and not being prepared for anything of that sort, he was very much startled and upset. He had to come in there with a dry mouth.

negatively - ऋणात्मक ढंग से

yelled - चीखना, चिल्लाना, चिल्लाहट, चीख

"I never thought of finding you here," he added, murmuring steadily, with his elbows planted on the table.

"I come here sometimes," said the other, preserving his provoking coolness of demeanour.

provoking - उत्तेजित करना, उत्पन्न करना

coolness - शान्ति, धैर्य, रूखापन, शीतकता

demeanour - आचरण

"It's wonderful that you of all people should have heard nothing of it," the big Ossipon continued. His eyelids snapped nervously upon the shining eyes. "You of all people," he repeated tentatively.

eyelids - पलक, दृष्टिपत, नयन पट

tentatively - आज़माइशी तौर पर

This obvious restraint argued an incredible and inexplicable timidity of the big fellow before the calm little man, who again lifted the glass mug, drank, and put it down with brusque and assured movements. And that was all.

timidity - डर, घबराहट, कायरता

Ossipon after waiting for something, word or sign, that did not come, made an effort to assume a sort of indifference.

"Do you," he said, deadening his voice still more, "give your stuff to anybody who's up to asking you for it?"

deadening - नीरस, (deaden)

"My absolute rule is never to refuse anybody-as long as I have a pinch by me," answered the little man with decision.

pinch - काटना, चुराना, चिकोटी काटना

"That's a principle?" commented Ossipon.

"It's a principle."

"And you think it's sound?"

The large round spectacles, which gave a look of staring self-confidence to the sallow face, confronted Ossipon like sleepless, unwinking orbs flashing a cold fire.

confronted - सामना होना, सामना, सामना करना

sleepless - निद्रारहित

orbs - वृत्त, स्वर्ण वर्तुल

"Perfectly. Always. Under every circumstance. What could stop me? Why should I not? Why should I think twice about it?"

Ossipon gasped, as it were, discreetly.

"Do you mean to say you would hand it over to a 'teck'if one came to ask you for your wares?"

The other smiled faintly.

"Let them come and try it on, and you will see," he said. "They know me, but I know also every one of them. They won't come near me-not they."

His thin livid lips snapped together firmly. Ossipon began to argue.

livid - बहुत अधिक नाराज़, रक्तहीन

"But they could send someone-rig a plant on you. Don't you see? Get the stuff from you in that way, and then arrest you with the proof in their hands."

Rig - उपकरण से लेस करना

"Proof of what? Dealing in explosives without a licence perhaps." This was meant for a contemptuous jeer, though the expression of the thin, sickly face remained unchanged, and the utterance was negligent. "I don't think there's one of them anxious to make that arrest. I don't think they could get one of them to apply for a warrant. I mean one of the best. Not one."

explosives - विदारणशील पदाष्थ

jeer - उपहास करना

unchanged - अपरिवर्तित

negligent - बेपरवाह, उपेक्षापूर्ण

warrant - आश्वासन देना, न्यायसंगत ठहराना

"Why?" Ossipon asked.

"Because they know very well I take care never to part with the last handful of my wares. I've it always by me." He touched the breast of his coat lightly. "In a thick glass flask," he added.

handful - मुट्ठी भर, मुट्ठी भर, अंजलि भर

lightly - अकारण, उपेक्षापूर्वक, हलके से

flask - पतले मुंह की बोतल

"So I have been told," said Ossipon, with a shade of wonder in his voice. "But I didn't know if-"

"They know," interrupted the little man crisply, leaning against the straight chair back, which rose higher than his fragile head. "I shall never be arrested. The game isn't good enough for any policeman of them all. To deal with a man like me you require sheer, naked, inglorious heroism." Again his lips closed with a self-confident snap. Ossipon repressed a movement of impatience.

crisply - स्पष्टतापूर्वक और संक्षेप में

sheer - पूर्णतया

inglorious - शर्मनाक, अकीर्तिकर

heroism - शौर्य, बहादुरी

repressed - दबाना, कुचलना, कुचल देना

"Or recklessness-or simply ignorance," he retorted. "They've only to get somebody for the job who does not know you carry enough stuff in your pocket to blow yourself and everything within sixty yards of you to pieces."

"I never affirmed I could not be eliminated," rejoined the other. "But that wouldn't be an arrest. Moreover, it's not so easy as it looks."

rejoined - प्रत्युत्तर देना, फिर मिलाना

"Bah!" Ossipon contradicted. "Don't be too sure of that. What's to prevent half-a-dozen of them jumping upon you from behind in the street? With your arms pinned to your sides you could do nothing-could you?"

contradicted - विरोध करना, खंडन करना

"Yes; I could. I am seldom out in the streets after dark," said the little man impassively, "and never very late. I walk always with my right hand closed round the india-rubber ball which I have in my trouser pocket. The pressing of this ball actuates a detonator inside the flask I carry in my pocket. It's the principle of the pneumatic instantaneous shutter for a camera lens.

impassively - भावशून्यतापूर्वक

India - भारत, भारतवर्ष

trouser - पैंट

actuates - प्रेरित करना, चालू करना

detonator - विस्फोटक

pneumatic - वातिक, वायवीय, वायुचालित

instantaneous - तात्कालिक

shutter - शटर

camera lens - कैमरा लेंस

The tube leads up-"

With a swift disclosing gesture he gave Ossipon a glimpse of an india-rubber tube, resembling a slender brown worm, issuing from the armhole of his waistcoat and plunging into the inner breast pocket of his jacket. His clothes, of a nondescript brown mixture, were threadbare and marked with stains, dusty in the folds, with ragged button-holes.

disclosing - बताना, दिखाना, प्रकट करना

Glimpse - झलक, झाँकी

slender - पतला

armhole - कपड़े की बाँह, बाँह

plunging - डूबना, (plunge) डूबना

stains - अभिरंजन करना, धब्बा, गन्दा होना

ragged - विषम, अपरिष्कृत, क्लांत, फटीचर

"The detonator is partly mechanical, partly chemical," he explained, with casual condescension.

"It is instantaneous, of course?" murmured Ossipon, with a slight shudder.

shudder - हिलना, रोंगटे खड़े कर देना

"Far from it," confessed the other, with a reluctance which seemed to twist his mouth dolorously. "A full twenty seconds must elapse from the moment I press the ball till the explosion takes place."

twist - मोड़

elapse - बीत जाना, बीत जाना

"Phew!" whistled Ossipon, completely appalled. "Twenty seconds! Horrors! You mean to say that you could face that? I should go crazy-"

Phew - ओह, छीः

whistled - चहचहाहट

appalled - नाराज़ होना, स्तंभित कर देना

"Wouldn't matter if you did. Of course, it's the weak point of this special system, which is only for my own use. The worst is that the manner of exploding is always the weak point with us. I am trying to invent a detonator that would adjust itself to all conditions of action, and even to unexpected changes of conditions. A variable and yet perfectly precise mechanism.

variable - चर

A really intelligent detonator."

"Twenty seconds," muttered Ossipon again. "Ough! And then-"

With a slight turn of the head the glitter of the spectacles seemed to gauge the size of the beer saloon in the basement of the renowned Silenus Restaurant.

gauge - नापना, माप, नाप, मापक, भाँपना

renowned - नाम, प्रसिद्धि, ख्याति

Silenus - साइलेनस

"Nobody in this room could hope to escape," was the verdict of that survey. "Nor yet this couple going up the stairs now."

The piano at the foot of the staircase clanged through a mazurka with brazen impetuosity, as though a vulgar and impudent ghost were showing off. The keys sank and rose mysteriously. Then all became still. For a moment Ossipon imagined the overlighted place changed into a dreadful black hole belching horrible fumes choked with ghastly rubbish of smashed brickwork and mutilated corpses.

clanged - झनझनाना

mazurka - पोलिश नृत्य{चार या आठ जोडों के लिए}

brazen - निर्लज/बेशर्म, खुल्लमखुल्ला

impetuosity - उतावलापन

mysteriously - in a mysterious manner

dreadful - भद्दा, शोचनीय, डरावना, विकट

belching - डकार लेना, डकारना, डकार

fumes - क्रोध करना, धुआँ छोड़ना

choked - चोक, सांस रूकना

smashed - ज़बर्दस्त रूप से सफल

brickwork - भवन की ईंट, भवन की ईंट

corpses - लाश, शव

He had such a distinct perception of ruin and death that he shuddered again. The other observed, with an air of calm sufficiency:

shuddered - हिलना, रोंगटे खड़े कर देना

"In the last instance it is character alone that makes for one's safety. There are very few people in the world whose character is as well established as mine."

"I wonder how you managed it," growled Ossipon.

"Force of personality," said the other, without raising his voice; and coming from the mouth of that obviously miserable organism the assertion caused the robust Ossipon to bite his lower lip. "Force of personality," he repeated, with ostentatious calm. "I have the means to make myself deadly, but that by itself, you understand, is absolutely nothing in the way of protection.

assertion - दावा, दृढ़कथन

ostentatious - आडंबरपूर्ण, दिखावटी, आडम्बरी

What is effective is the belief those people have in my will to use the means. That's their impression. It is absolute. Therefore I am deadly."

"There are individuals of character amongst that lot too," muttered Ossipon ominously.

"Possibly. But it is a matter of degree obviously, since, for instance, I am not impressed by them. Therefore they are inferior. They cannot be otherwise. Their character is built upon conventional morality. It leans on the social order. Mine stands free from everything artificial. They are bound in all sorts of conventions.

inferior - छोटा, घटिया, तुच्छ, निम्न, अधीन

They depend on life, which, in this connection, is a historical fact surrounded by all sorts of restraints and considerations, a complex organised fact open to attack at every point; whereas I depend on death, which knows no restraint and cannot be attacked. My superiority is evident."

restraints - संयम, अवरोध, रोक, प्रतिबंध

organised - आयोजित करना, योजना बनाना

superiority - वरिष्टता, उत्कृष्टता, श्रेष्ठता

"This is a transcendental way of putting it," said Ossipon, watching the cold glitter of the round spectacles. "I've heard Karl Yundt say much the same thing not very long ago."

transcendental - अनुभवातीत, मीमांसात्मक

"Karl Yundt," mumbled the other contemptuously, "the delegate of the International Red Committee, has been a posturing shadow all his life. There are three of you delegates, aren't there? I won't define the other two, as you are one of them. But what you say means nothing.

delegates - सौंपना, नियुक्त करना

You are the worthy delegates for revolutionary propaganda, but the trouble is not only that you are as unable to think independently as any respectable grocer or journalist of them all, but that you have no character whatever."

respectable - प्रणम्य, नमनीय, आदरणीय

grocer - pansari

Ossipon could not restrain a start of indignation.

restrain - रोकना, स्वतंत्रता का हनन करना

"But what do you want from us?" he exclaimed in a deadened voice. "What is it you are after yourself?"

"A perfect detonator," was the peremptory answer. "What are you making that face for? You see, you can't even bear the mention of something conclusive."

conclusive - निर्णायक

"I am not making a face," growled the annoyed Ossipon bearishly.

bearishly - निर्दोषता से

"You revolutionists," the other continued, with leisurely self-confidence, "are the slaves of the social convention, which is afraid of you; slaves of it as much as the very police that stands up in the defence of that convention. Clearly you are, since you want to revolutionise it.

leisurely - धीरे धीरे, इत्मीनान भरा

revolutionise - क्रांतिकारी परिवर्तन ल्ना

It governs your thought, of course, and your action too, and thus neither your thought nor your action can ever be conclusive." He paused, tranquil, with that air of close, endless silence, then almost immediately went on. "You are not a bit better than the forces arrayed against you-than the police, for instance.

tranquil - शांत, प्रशान्त, प्रशांत, असंभ्रम

endless - अनंत, बेहद, निःसीम, अंत हीन

arrayed - क्रम, पोशाक

The other day I came suddenly upon Chief Inspector Heat at the corner of Tottenham Court Road. He looked at me very steadily. But I did not look at him. Why should I give him more than a glance? He was thinking of many things-of his superiors, of his reputation, of the law courts, of his salary, of newspapers-of a hundred things. But I was thinking of my perfect detonator only.

superiors - उत्कृष्ट, अच्छा, श्रेष्ठ, उच्च

law courts - न्यायालय

He meant nothing to me. He was as insignificant as-I can't call to mind anything insignificant enough to compare him with-except Karl Yundt perhaps. Like to like. The terrorist and the policeman both come from the same basket. Revolution, legality-counter moves in the same game; forms of idleness at bottom identical. He plays his little game-so do you propagandists.

legality - वैधता, विधि मान्यता

But I don't play; I work fourteen hours a day, and go hungry sometimes. My experiments cost money now and again, and then I must do without food for a day or two. You're looking at my beer. Yes. I have had two glasses already, and shall have another presently. This is a little holiday, and I celebrate it alone. Why not? I've the grit to work alone, quite alone, absolutely alone.

go hungry - भूखा जाओ

Grit - कण, बालूकण

I've worked alone for years."

Ossipon's face had turned dusky red.

"At the perfect detonator-eh?" he sneered, very low.

sneered - व्यंग्योक्ति, हँसी उड़ाना

"Yes," retorted the other. "It is a good definition. You couldn't find anything half so precise to define the nature of your activity with all your committees and delegations. It is I who am the true propagandist."

delegations - प्रतिनिधि मंडल

propagandist - प्रचारक, प्रचारवादी, अधिप्रचारक

"We won't discuss that point," said Ossipon, with an air of rising above personal considerations. "I am afraid I'll have to spoil your holiday for you, though. There's a man blown up in Greenwich Park this morning."

"How do you know?"

"They have been yelling the news in the streets since two o'clock. I bought the paper, and just ran in here. Then I saw you sitting at this table. I've got it in my pocket now."

yelling - चिल्लाहट, चीख पुकार, चीखता हुआ

I've got it - मैं इसे प्राप्त कर लिया है।

He pulled the newspaper out. It was a good-sized rosy sheet, as if flushed by the warmth of its own convictions, which were optimistic. He scanned the pages rapidly.

flushed - समतल, समृद्ध

convictions - अपराध सिद्धि, दोषसिद्धि

"Ah! Here it is. Bomb in Greenwich Park. There isn't much so far. Half-past eleven. Foggy morning. Effects of explosion felt as far as Romney Road and Park Place. Enormous hole in the ground under a tree filled with smashed roots and broken branches. All round fragments of a man's body blown to pieces. That's all. The rest's mere newspaper gup.

gup - गुप्त

No doubt a wicked attempt to blow up the Observatory, they say. H'm. That's hardly credible."

wicked - दुष्ट, (wick) दुष्ट

Observatory - अबजरवेटरी, वेधशाला, वेधालय

credible - विश्वसनीय, विश्वास करने योग्य

He looked at the paper for a while longer in silence, then passed it to the other, who after gazing abstractedly at the print laid it down without comment.

abstractedly - अनमने भाव से

It was Ossipon who spoke first-still resentful.

resentful - नाराज़, क्रोधी, चिढ़ा हुआ

"The fragments of only one man, you note. Ergo: blew himself up. That spoils your day off for you-don't it? Were you expecting that sort of move? I hadn't the slightest idea-not the ghost of a notion of anything of the sort being planned to come off here-in this country. Under the present circumstances it's nothing short of criminal."

Ergo - इसलिए

The little man lifted his thin black eyebrows with dispassionate scorn.

"Criminal! What is that? What is crime? What can be the meaning of such an assertion?"

"How am I to express myself? One must use the current words," said Ossipon impatiently. "The meaning of this assertion is that this business may affect our position very adversely in this country. Isn't that crime enough for you? I am convinced you have been giving away some of your stuff lately."

impatiently - अधीरतापूर्वक, अधीरत से

Ossipon stared hard. The other, without flinching, lowered and raised his head slowly.

flinching - कराहना, हिचक, घबरा जाना

"You have!" burst out the editor of the F. P. leaflets in an intense whisper. "No! And are you really handing it over at large like this, for the asking, to the first fool that comes along?"

"Just so! The condemned social order has not been built up on paper and ink, and I don't fancy that a combination of paper and ink will ever put an end to it, whatever you may think. Yes, I would give the stuff with both hands to every man, woman, or fool that likes to come along. I know what you are thinking about. But I am not taking my cue from the Red Committee.

condemned - घोषित करना, दोष लगाना

I would see you all hounded out of here, or arrested-or beheaded for that matter-without turning a hair. What happens to us as individuals is not of the least consequence."

hounded - शिकारी कुत्ता, पीछा करना

beheaded - सिर काटना, सिर कटवा देना

He spoke carelessly, without heat, almost without feeling, and Ossipon, secretly much affected, tried to copy this detachment.

secretly - गुप्त रूप से, गुप्ततः

"If the police here knew their business they would shoot you full of holes with revolvers, or else try to sand-bag you from behind in broad daylight."

revolvers - चक्र द्वार

daylight - दिन, सुबह, दिन का प्रकाश

The little man seemed already to have considered that point of view in his dispassionate self-confident manner.

"Yes," he assented with the utmost readiness. "But for that they would have to face their own institutions. Do you see? That requires uncommon grit. Grit of a special kind."

assented - स्वीकृति, सहमति, मान लेना

utmost - अत्यधिक, अंतिम

readiness - इच्छा, उत्सुकता, औत्सुक्य

uncommon - असामान्य

Ossipon blinked.

"I fancy that's exactly what would happen to you if you were to set up your laboratory in the States. They don't stand on ceremony with their institutions there."

"I am not likely to go and see. Otherwise your remark is just," admitted the other. "They have more character over there, and their character is essentially anarchistic. Fertile ground for us, the States-very good ground. The great Republic has the root of the destructive matter in her. The collective temperament is lawless. Excellent. They may shoot us down, but-"

anarchistic - अराजकतावादी

fertile - उपजाऊ

republic - गणराज्य, गणतंत्र, जम्हूरियत are

collective - समूह, सामूहिक, संगठन, सामूह

lawless - अराजक

"You are too transcendental for me," growled Ossipon, with moody concern.

"Logical," protested the other. "There are several kinds of logic. This is the enlightened kind. America is all right. It is this country that is dangerous, with her idealistic conception of legality. The social spirit of this people is wrapped up in scrupulous prejudices, and that is fatal to our work. You talk of England being our only refuge! So much the worse. Capua!

logic - तर्क-शास्त्र, गणितीय तर्क, तर्क

enlightened - जानकारी देना, जानकारी देना

idealistic - आदर्शवादी

scrupulous - ईमानदार, कर्तव्य निष्ठ

prejudices - प्रतिकूल रूप से प्रभावित होना

refuge - शरण, पनाह

What do we want with refuges? Here you talk, print, plot, and do nothing. I daresay it's very convenient for such Karl Yundts."

refuges - आश्रय स्थान, आश्रय, शरण

He shrugged his shoulders slightly, then added with the same leisurely assurance: "To break up the superstition and worship of legality should be our aim. Nothing would please me more than to see Inspector Heat and his likes take to shooting us down in broad daylight with the approval of the public.

superstition - अंधविश्वास

worship - पूजा r=pūjā, इबादत r=ibādat

Half our battle would be won then; the disintegration of the old morality would have set in in its very temple. That is what you ought to aim at. But you revolutionists will never understand that. You plan the future, you lose yourselves in reveries of economical systems derived from what is; whereas what's wanted is a clean sweep and a clear start for a new conception of life.

disintegration - विघटन, अवखंडन

reveries - दिवास्वप्न

economical - आर्थिकिता, किफ़ायती

That sort of future will take care of itself if you will only make room for it. Therefore I would shovel my stuff in heaps at the corners of the streets if I had enough for that; and as I haven't, I do my best by perfecting a really dependable detonator."

shovel - बेलचा

in heaps - बहुत सारे

dependable - भरोसेमंद

Ossipon, who had been mentally swimming in deep waters, seized upon the last word as if it were a saving plank.

plank - मुद्दा, तख्ता, पटकना

"Yes. Your detonators. I shouldn't wonder if it weren't one of your detonators that made a clean sweep of the man in the park."

detonators - बम आदि बनाने का उपकरण, विस्फोटक

A shade of vexation darkened the determined sallow face confronting Ossipon.

vexation - परेशानी, संताप, क्लेश, खीझ

darkened - अँधेरा होना[करना], गहराना

confronting - सामना होना, सामना, सामना करना

"My difficulty consists precisely in experimenting practically with the various kinds. They must be tried after all. Besides-"

Ossipon interrupted.

"Who could that fellow be? I assure you that we in London had no knowledge-Couldn't you describe the person you gave the stuff to?"

The other turned his spectacles upon Ossipon like a pair of searchlights.

searchlights - खोज बत्ती

"Describe him," he repeated slowly. "I don't think there can be the slightest objection now. I will describe him to you in one word-Verloc."

objection - आपत्ति

Ossipon, whom curiosity had lifted a few inches off his seat, dropped back, as if hit in the face.

"Verloc! Impossible."

The self-possessed little man nodded slightly once.

"Yes. He's the person. You can't say that in this case I was giving my stuff to the first fool that came along. He was a prominent member of the group as far as I understand."

"Yes," said Ossipon. "Prominent. No, not exactly. He was the centre for general intelligence, and usually received comrades coming over here. More useful than important. Man of no ideas. Years ago he used to speak at meetings-in France, I believe. Not very well, though. He was trusted by such men as Latorre, Moser and all that old lot.

comrades - साथी, कमरेड

The only talent he showed really was his ability to elude the attentions of the police somehow. Here, for instance, he did not seem to be looked after very closely. He was regularly married, you know. I suppose it's with her money that he started that shop. Seemed to make it pay, too."

elude - हाथ न आना, हाथ न आना

Ossipon paused abruptly, muttered to himself "I wonder what that woman will do now?" and fell into thought.

The other waited with ostentatious indifference. His parentage was obscure, and he was generally known only by his nickname of Professor. His title to that designation consisted in his having been once assistant demonstrator in chemistry at some technical institute. He quarrelled with the authorities upon a question of unfair treatment.

parentage - वंश, पितृत्व, जनकता

nickname - उपनाम, लक़ब

designation - नियुक्ति, औहदा, पद का नाम

demonstrator - प्रदर्शनकारी, प्रदर्शक

quarrelled - विवाद करना, शिकायत, झगड़ा

Afterwards he obtained a post in the laboratory of a manufactory of dyes. There too he had been treated with revolting injustice.

manufactory - निर्माता

dyes - रंगना, रंग, रंग करना, रंग करना

revolting - विद्रोह करना, विरोध, विद्रोह

His struggles, his privations, his hard work to raise himself in the social scale, had filled him with such an exalted conviction of his merits that it was extremely difficult for the world to treat him with justice-the standard of that notion depending so much upon the patience of the individual. The Professor had genius, but lacked the great social virtue of resignation.

privations - हीनता, कमी, अभाव, न्यूनता, तंगी

merits - विशेषता, योग्यता, सराहना

resignation - इस्तीफ़ा

"Intellectually a nonentity," Ossipon pronounced aloud, abandoning suddenly the inward contemplation of Mrs Verloc's bereaved person and business. "Quite an ordinary personality. You are wrong in not keeping more in touch with the comrades, Professor," he added in a reproving tone. "Did he say anything to you-give you some idea of his intentions? I hadn't seen him for a month.

intellectually - बौद्धिक रूप से

nonentity - तुच्छ व्यक्ति, अवस्तु

bereaved - शोकसंतप्त होना

reproving - निन्दात्मक

It seems impossible that he should be gone."

"He told me it was going to be a demonstration against a building," said the Professor. "I had to know that much to prepare the missile. I pointed out to him that I had hardly a sufficient quantity for a completely destructive result, but he pressed me very earnestly to do my best.

missile - प्रक्षेपास्त्र, राकेट, मिसाइल

As he wanted something that could be carried openly in the hand, I proposed to make use of an old one-gallon copal varnish can I happened to have by me. He was pleased at the idea. It gave me some trouble, because I had to cut out the bottom first and solder it on again afterwards.

gallon - गैलन{लगभग 4.5 लीटर}, गैलन

copal - tree resin

varnish - वार्निश

solder - मिलाप

When prepared for use, the can enclosed a wide-mouthed, well-corked jar of thick glass packed around with some wet clay and containing sixteen ounces of X2 green powder. The detonator was connected with the screw top of the can. It was ingenious-a combination of time and shock. I explained the system to him. It was a thin tube of tin enclosing a-"

enclosed - घेरना, बंद करना, बाड़ा लगाना

corked - काग लगाना, काग लगाना, कर्क

jar - मर्तबान

clay - मृत्तिका, चिकनी मिट्टी

ounces - एक तोल{आधी छटाँक के लगभग}/तेंदुआ

ingenious - शानदार, प्रवीण, विदग्ध

enclosing - घेरना, बंद करना, बाड़ा लगाना

Ossipon's attention had wandered.

"What do you think has happened?" he interrupted.

"Can't tell. Screwed the top on tight, which would make the connection, and then forgot the time. It was set for twenty minutes. On the other hand, the time contact being made, a sharp shock would bring about the explosion at once. He either ran the time too close, or simply let the thing fall. The contact was made all right-that's clear to me at any rate. The system's worked perfectly.

screwed - मोड़ना, संभोग करना, कंजूस, जेलर

And yet you would think that a common fool in a hurry would be much more likely to forget to make the contact altogether. I was worrying myself about that sort of failure mostly. But there are more kinds of fools than one can guard against. You can't expect a detonator to be absolutely fool-proof."

He beckoned to a waiter. Ossipon sat rigid, with the abstracted gaze of mental travail. After the man had gone away with the money he roused himself, with an air of profound dissatisfaction.

beckoned - संकेत करना, इशाराअना

rigid - कठोर, सख्त, कड़ा

gaze - एक्टक देखने ताला, टकटकी

travail - कठोर परिश्रम, प्रसव, कष्ट

roused - उत्तेजित करना, उत्तेजित, उठाना

dissatisfaction - असंतोष, असन्तोष

"It's extremely unpleasant for me," he mused. "Karl has been in bed with bronchitis for a week. There's an even chance that he will never get up again. Michaelis's luxuriating in the country somewhere. A fashionable publisher has offered him five hundred pounds for a book. It will be a ghastly failure. He has lost the habit of consecutive thinking in prison, you know."

mused - विचार करना, प्रेरक शक्ति

bronchitis - फेफड़े की सूजन, श्वासनली शोथ

luxuriating - फ़िज़ूलखर्ची करना

publisher - प्रकाशक, पब्लिशर

consecutive - लगातार

The Professor on his feet, now buttoning his coat, looked about him with perfect indifference.

"What are you going to do?" asked Ossipon wearily. He dreaded the blame of the Central Red Committee, a body which had no permanent place of abode, and of whose membership he was not exactly informed. If this affair eventuated in the stoppage of the modest subsidy allotted to the publication of the F. P. pamphlets, then indeed he would have to regret Verloc's inexplicable folly.

abode - घर, गृह, मकान, (abide) घर

stoppage - विराम, अवरोध, रुकावट, स्टपेज

subsidy - अनुदान, आर्थिक सहायता

allotted - बांटना, देना{बाँटना}

pamphlets - पुस्तिका, पत्रक, चौपन्ना

folly - मूर्खता, फ़ली, ignorance

"Solidarity with the extremest form of action is one thing, and silly recklessness is another," he said, with a sort of moody brutality. "I don't know what came to Verloc. There's some mystery there. However, he's gone. You may take it as you like, but under the circumstances the only policy for the militant revolutionary group is to disclaim all connection with this damned freak of yours.

solidarity - एकता, ऐक्यभाव, एकजुटता

militant - युद्धरत, युद्धकारी, आक्रामक

disclaim - अस्वीकार करना

freak - असामान्य

How to make the disclaimer convincing enough is what bothers me."

disclaimer - अस्वीक्रति

bothers - परेशान करना, कष्ट देना, परेशानी

The little man on his feet, buttoned up and ready to go, was no taller than the seated Ossipon. He levelled his spectacles at the latter's face point-blank.

buttoned up - बटन किया हुआ

"You might ask the police for a testimonial of good conduct. They know where every one of you slept last night. Perhaps if you asked them they would consent to publish some sort of official statement."

testimonial - प्रमाण पत्र, गवाही, प्रशंसा पत्र

consent - सहमत होना

"No doubt they are aware well enough that we had nothing to do with this," mumbled Ossipon bitterly. "What they will say is another thing." He remained thoughtful, disregarding the short, owlish, shabby figure standing by his side. "I must lay hands on Michaelis at once, and get him to speak from his heart at one of our gatherings. The public has a sort of sentimental regard for that fellow.

bitterly - अधिक, बहुत ज़्यादा, कस के

disregarding - अनादर, अवहेलना करना, उपेक्षा

gatherings - सभा, संग्रहण, सभाआ, जन समुदाय

His name is known. And I am in touch with a few reporters on the big dailies. What he would say would be utter bosh, but he has a turn of talk that makes it go down all the same."

"Like treacle," interjected the Professor, rather low, keeping an impassive expression.

treacle - गुड़, खुशामद, चाशनी, शीरा

interjected - टोकना, बीच मेँ राय देना

impassive - भावशून्य, भावना शून्य

The perplexed Ossipon went on communing with himself half audibly, after the manner of a man reflecting in perfect solitude.

perplexed - हैरान करना, व्याकुल करना

communing - साझेदारी, (commune) साझेदारी

audibly - स्पष्ट रूप से, स्पष्ट रूप से

"Confounded ass! To leave such an imbecile business on my hands. And I don't even know if-"

He sat with compressed lips. The idea of going for news straight to the shop lacked charm. His notion was that Verloc's shop might have been turned already into a police trap. They will be bound to make some arrests, he thought, with something resembling virtuous indignation, for the even tenor of his revolutionary life was menaced by no fault of his.

compressed - दबाना, पट्टी, संक्षिप्त करना

tenor - अभिप्राय, उच्च स्वरीय

And yet unless he went there he ran the risk of remaining in ignorance of what perhaps it would be very material for him to know. Then he reflected that, if the man in the park had been so very much blown to pieces as the evening papers said, he could not have been identified.

And if so, the police could have no special reason for watching Verloc's shop more closely than any other place known to be frequented by marked anarchists-no more reason, in fact, than for watching the doors of the Silenus. There would be a lot of watching all round, no matter where he went. Still-

"I wonder what I had better do now?" he muttered, taking counsel with himself.

counsel - वकील

A rasping voice at his elbow said, with sedate scorn:

rasping - तीखा

sedate - शांत, गंभीर, संयत, धीर

"Fasten yourself upon the woman for all she's worth."

After uttering these words the Professor walked away from the table. Ossipon, whom that piece of insight had taken unawares, gave one ineffectual start, and remained still, with a helpless gaze, as though nailed fast to the seat of his chair.

unawares - अनभिज्ञ, अनजान, बेख़बर, अनवधान

ineffectual - अशक्त, प्रभावहीन, अप्रभावी

helpless - लाचार, बेबस, विवश

The lonely piano, without as much as a music stool to help it, struck a few chords courageously, and beginning a selection of national airs, played him out at last to the tune of "Blue Bells of Scotland." The painfully detached notes grew faint behind his back while he went slowly upstairs, across the hall, and into the street.

chords - स्वरसंघात, डोरी, तार

courageously - साहस से, साहसपूर्वक

Scotland - स्कौटलैंड

In front of the great doorway a dismal row of newspaper sellers standing clear of the pavement dealt out their wares from the gutter. It was a raw, gloomy day of the early spring; and the grimy sky, the mud of the streets, the rags of the dirty men, harmonised excellently with the eruption of the damp, rubbishy sheets of paper soiled with printers'ink.

dismal - निराशाजनक, भयानक, निराशपुर्ण

gloomy - उदास, अंधकारमय, निराशजनक, दुखी

rags - छेड़ छाड़ करना, घटिया समाचारपत्र

harmonised - साथ जाना, मेल खाना, मेल खाना

excellently - प्रकृष्टता से

eruption - उद्भेदन, उदभेदन

rubbishy - बेकार

printers - मुद्रण यंट, मुद्रकअ

The posters, maculated with filth, garnished like tapestry the sweep of the curbstone. The trade in afternoon papers was brisk, yet, in comparison with the swift, constant march of foot traffic, the effect was of indifference, of a disregarded distribution. Ossipon looked hurriedly both ways before stepping out into the cross-currents, but the Professor was already out of sight.

posters - सूचनापत्रक, विज्ञापन

maculated - अपवित्र करना, धब्बेदार, अपवित्र

filth - गंदगी, गंद

garnished - सजावट, सजाना, अलंकृत करना

tapestry - टैपेस्ट्रीदार दीवार चित्र

brisk - फुरतीला

CHAPTER V

The Professor had turned into a street to the left, and walked along, with his head carried rigidly erect, in a crowd whose every individual almost overtopped his stunted stature. It was vain to pretend to himself that he was not disappointed. But that was mere feeling; the stoicism of his thought could not be disturbed by this or any other failure.

rigidly - कड़ेपन के साथ, कठोरतापूर्वक

erect - बनाना, खडा़ करना

stunted - तमाशा, बढ़ने न देना

stature - महत्ता

vain - व्यर्थ, अहंकारी, खोखला, असार

stoicism - आत्मसंयम, सहनशीलता, स्टोइकवाद

Next time, or the time after next, a telling stroke would be delivered-something really startling-a blow fit to open the first crack in the imposing front of the great edifice of legal conceptions sheltering the atrocious injustice of society.

conceptions - धारणा, समझ, गर्भाधान, संकल्पना

Of humble origin, and with an appearance really so mean as to stand in the way of his considerable natural abilities, his imagination had been fired early by the tales of men rising from the depths of poverty to positions of authority and affluence.

affluence - अमीर

The extreme, almost ascetic purity of his thought, combined with an astounding ignorance of worldly conditions, had set before him a goal of power and prestige to be attained without the medium of arts, graces, tact, wealth-by sheer weight of merit alone. On that view he considered himself entitled to undisputed success.

ascetic - सन्यासी, यति, तपस्वी/योगी

purity - शुद्धता, पवित्रता, विशुद्धता

astounding - चकित करना, अचंभित करना

worldly - सांसारिक, भौतिक, लौकिक

prestige - प्रतिष्ठा

graces - तौर तरीका, (grace), अदा

tact - चातुर्य, व्यवहार कुशलता, समझ बूझ

merit - क़द्र

undisputed - समान, अविवादित, निर्विवाद

His father, a delicate dark enthusiast with a sloping forehead, had been an itinerant and rousing preacher of some obscure but rigid Christian sect-a man supremely confident in the privileges of his righteousness.

enthusiast - समर्थक, उत्साही

itinerant - यायावर, यायावर श्रमिक, भ्रमणशील

preacher - उपदेशक

Christian - ईसाई धर्म संबंधी

sect - मज़हब, संप्रदाय, निकाय

privileges - सौभाग्य, सुविधा, विशेषाधिकार

righteousness - नेकी, नीतिपरायणता

In the son, individualist by temperament, once the science of colleges had replaced thoroughly the faith of conventicles, this moral attitude translated itself into a frenzied puritanism of ambition. He nursed it as something secularly holy. To see it thwarted opened his eyes to the true nature of the world, whose morality was artificial, corrupt, and blasphemous.

individualist - व्यकतिवाडि, व्यक्तिवादी

frenzied - पागलपन, उन्माद

puritanism - अतिनैतिकतावाद, प्यूरिटनवाद

secularly - in a secular fashion

thwarted - रोकना, आड़ा तख्ता

corrupt - बेईमान, भ्रष्ट

blasphemous - अपवित्रकारी, धर्मद्रोही

The way of even the most justifiable revolutions is prepared by personal impulses disguised into creeds. The Professor's indignation found in itself a final cause that absolved him from the sin of turning to destruction as the agent of his ambition.

justifiable - उचित, न्यायसंगत

disguised - भेष बदलना, छिपाना, वेष बदलन्

creeds - धर्म, धर्म मत/स्वीकृत मत

absolved - मुक्त्त करना, दोषमुक्त करना

sin - अपराध, पाप, पाप करना

To destroy public faith in legality was the imperfect formula of his pedantic fanaticism; but the subconscious conviction that the framework of an established social order cannot be effectually shattered except by some form of collective or individual violence was precise and correct. He was a moral agent-that was settled in his mind.

imperfect - अपूर्ण, त्रुटिपूर्ण, अपूर्ण भूत

formula - सूत्र, फ़ॉरमूला

pedantic - पण्डिताऊ

the subconscious - अंतरजाल

effectually - प्रभावोत्पादक ढंग से

shattered - नष्ट करना या हो जाना

By exercising his agency with ruthless defiance he procured for himself the appearances of power and personal prestige. That was undeniable to his vengeful bitterness.

ruthless - निर्दय, क्रूर, निर्दयी, राक्षस

procured - प्राप्त करना, दलाली करना

undeniable - अविवादास्पद, अविवादित, असंदिग्ध

vengeful - प्रतिहिंसक, प्रतिशोधी

bitterness - तीखापन, कटुता, तीक्ष्णता, शोक

It pacified its unrest; and in their own way the most ardent of revolutionaries are perhaps doing no more but seeking for peace in common with the rest of mankind-the peace of soothed vanity, of satisfied appetites, or perhaps of appeased conscience.

pacified - शांत करना, में विरोध मिटाना

ardent - उत्कृष्ट, दक्ष, उत्साही, उत्कट

revolutionaries - क्रान्तिकारी, क्रांतिकारी

soothed - वास्तविकता

appetites - इच्छा, रुचि, भूख

appeased - शांत करना, संतुष्ट करना

Lost in the crowd, miserable and undersized, he meditated confidently on his power, keeping his hand in the left pocket of his trousers, grasping lightly the india-rubber ball, the supreme guarantee of his sinister freedom; but after a while he became disagreeably affected by the sight of the roadway thronged with vehicles and of the pavement crowded with men and women.

undersized - छोटे कद का

meditated - का इरादा करना, ध्यान करना

confidently - विश्वास सहित

grasping - समझना, पाने का प्रयत्न करना

roadway - सड़क मार्ग, सड़क मार्ग

thronged - भीड़ लगाना, भीड़, भीड़ करना

He was in a long, straight street, peopled by a mere fraction of an immense multitude; but all round him, on and on, even to the limits of the horizon hidden by the enormous piles of bricks, he felt the mass of mankind mighty in its numbers.

immense - असीम, अमित, विपल, विशाल

mighty - शक्तिशाली, बहुत, प्रबल, तेजस्वी

They swarmed numerous like locusts, industrious like ants, thoughtless like a natural force, pushing on blind and orderly and absorbed, impervious to sentiment, to logic, to terror too perhaps.

swarmed - समूह, झुण्ड, भीड़

locusts - टिड्डी

Ants - चींटी

thoughtless - लापरवाह, विचारशून्य, बेलिहाज़

orderly - शांत, अर्दली, तर्कसंगत

impervious - अभेद्य, अप्रभावित

That was the form of doubt he feared most. Impervious to fear! Often while walking abroad, when he happened also to come out of himself, he had such moments of dreadful and sane mistrust of mankind. What if nothing could move them? Such moments come to all men whose ambition aims at a direct grasp upon humanity-to artists, politicians, thinkers, reformers, or saints.

sane - स्वस्थचित्त, समझदार

mistrust - संदेह, अविश्‍वास

grasp - समझना, पाने का प्रयत्न करना

thinkers - विचारक, चिन्तक, सोचने वाला

Saints - आदर्श, संत, साधु/सन्त

A despicable emotional state this, against which solitude fortifies a superior character; and with severe exultation the Professor thought of the refuge of his room, with its padlocked cupboard, lost in a wilderness of poor houses, the hermitage of the perfect anarchist.

despicable - घृणित, घिनौना, तिरस्करणीय

fortifies - पुष्ट करना, सशक्त करना

superior - उत्कृष्ट, अच्छा, श्रेष्ठ, उच्च

exultation - उल्लास

padlocked - ताला लगाना, ताला

wilderness - निर्जन वनप्रांतर, निर्जन प्रदेश

hermitage - तपोवन, आश्रम

In order to reach sooner the point where he could take his omnibus, he turned brusquely out of the populous street into a narrow and dusky alley paved with flagstones. On one side the low brick houses had in their dusty windows the sightless, moribund look of incurable decay-empty shells awaiting demolition. From the other side life had not departed wholly as yet.

populous - घनी आबादी वाला

alley - पगडण्डी

paved - पटरी बिछाना, पटरी बिछाना

flagstones - प्रस्तर खंड

sightless - अंधा, दृष्टिहीन

incurable - पक्का, असाध्य, अचिकित्स्य

decay - खराब करना, ख़राब होना, विकार

awaiting - आसरा देखना, बाट जोहना, शलभ

demolition - विध्वंस, विनाश, विनाश/नाश

wholly - पूरी तरह से, पूरी तरह से

Facing the only gas-lamp yawned the cavern of a second-hand furniture dealer, where, deep in the gloom of a sort of narrow avenue winding through a bizarre forest of wardrobes, with an undergrowth tangle of table legs, a tall pier-glass glimmered like a pool of water in a wood. An unhappy, homeless couch, accompanied by two unrelated chairs, stood in the open.

cavern - कंदरा, बड़ी गुफा

furniture dealer - फर्नीचर डीलर

gloom - अंधकार, उदासी, निराशा

avenue - मार्ग, रास्ता, पेड़ दार पथ

winding - घुमावदार, घुमाव, चक्कर

bizarre - अनोखा, विचित्र, अजीब

wardrobes - अलमारी, कपड़े, वस्त्रागार

undergrowth - झाड़ झंखाड़

tangle - पुंज

pier-glass - (pier-glass) पायर ग्लास

glimmered - चमक, झलक, टिमटिमाना, टिमटिमाहट

couch - खाट, पल

unrelated - असंबद्ध, असंबंधी

The only human being making use of the alley besides the Professor, coming stalwart and erect from the opposite direction, checked his swinging pace suddenly.

stalwart - विश्वसनीय, निष्ठावान, बहादुर

swinging - ज़िंदादिल, दोलन, झूलता हुआ

"Hallo!" he said, and stood a little on one side watchfully.

Hallo - हैलो

The Professor had already stopped, with a ready half turn which brought his shoulders very near the other wall. His right hand fell lightly on the back of the outcast couch, the left remained purposefully plunged deep in the trousers pocket, and the roundness of the heavy rimmed spectacles imparted an owlish character to his moody, unperturbed face.

outcast - बहिष्कृत

purposefully - अर्थपूर्ण ढंग से

trousers pocket - पैंट के पॉकेट

roundness - गोलाई, वर्तुलता

rimmed - किनारा, किनारा लगाना, घिरा होना

imparted - बताना, प्रदान करना

unperturbed - अनुद्विग्न, अविकल

It was like a meeting in a side corridor of a mansion full of life. The stalwart man was buttoned up in a dark overcoat, and carried an umbrella. His hat, tilted back, uncovered a good deal of forehead, which appeared very white in the dusk. In the dark patches of the orbits the eyeballs glimmered piercingly.

dusk - गोधूलि वेला, संध्या

patches - पट्टी, धब्बा, चकती, क्षेट्रअ

orbits - कार्यक्षेत्र, कक्षा, नेत्रगुहा

eyeballs - आँख की पुतली

piercingly - अत्यधिक, तीखी आवाज़ में

Long, drooping moustaches, the colour of ripe corn, framed with their points the square block of his shaved chin.

ripe - पका हुआ

corn - मकई का दाना

"I am not looking for you," he said curtly.

curtly - रुखाई से, रुखाई से

The Professor did not stir an inch. The blended noises of the enormous town sank down to an inarticulate low murmur. Chief Inspector Heat of the Special Crimes Department changed his tone.

blended - मिलना, मिश्रण, मिलाना

inarticulate - अस्पष्ट, अव्यक्त

"Not in a hurry to get home?" he asked, with mocking simplicity.

simplicity - सहजता, सरलता, भोलापन, सादगी

The unwholesome-looking little moral agent of destruction exulted silently in the possession of personal prestige, keeping in check this man armed with the defensive mandate of a menaced society.

unwholesome - अस्वाभाविक, अनैतिक, हानिकर

exulted - उल्लसित होना, बहुत प्रसन्न होना

defensive - सतर्क, रक्षात्मक, रक्षक

mandate - सौंपना, आदेश देना, आदेश

More fortunate than Caligula, who wished that the Roman Senate had only one head for the better satisfaction of his cruel lust, he beheld in that one man all the forces he had set at defiance: the force of law, property, oppression, and injustice. He beheld all his enemies, and fearlessly confronted them all in a supreme satisfaction of his vanity.

Roman - प्राचीन रोमवासी

Senate - सीनेट

lust - वासना, राग, काम

fearlessly - निडरतापूर्वक, निर्भयतापूर्वक

They stood perplexed before him as if before a dreadful portent. He gloated inwardly over the chance of this meeting affirming his superiority over all the multitude of mankind.

portent - पूर्वसूचना, पूर्वसंकेत, अपशकुन

gloated - बड़ी चाह से देखना

affirming - दृढतापूर्वक कहना

It was in reality a chance meeting. Chief Inspector Heat had had a disagreeably busy day since his department received the first telegram from Greenwich a little before eleven in the morning. First of all, the fact of the outrage being attempted less than a week after he had assured a high official that no outbreak of anarchist activity was to be apprehended was sufficiently annoying.

telegram - तार, टेलीग्राम, टेलिग्राम

high official - उच्च अधिकारी

outbreak - प्रकोप, प्रादुर्भाव

apprehended - समझना, पकड़ाना, पकड़ना

If he ever thought himself safe in making a statement, it was then. He had made that statement with infinite satisfaction to himself, because it was clear that the high official desired greatly to hear that very thing.

infinite - अनंत, असीम, विशाल, अपरिमित

He had affirmed that nothing of the sort could even be thought of without the department being aware of it within twenty-four hours; and he had spoken thus in his consciousness of being the great expert of his department. He had gone even so far as to utter words which true wisdom would have kept back. But Chief Inspector Heat was not very wise-at least not truly so.

kept back - रोका गया

True wisdom, which is not certain of anything in this world of contradictions, would have prevented him from attaining his present position. It would have alarmed his superiors, and done away with his chances of promotion. His promotion had been very rapid.

contradictions - प्रतिवाद, विरोधाभास, अन्तर्विरोध

attaining - पाना, प्राप्त करना, सिद्ध करना

"There isn't one of them, sir, that we couldn't lay our hands on at any time of night and day. We know what each of them is doing hour by hour," he had declared. And the high official had deigned to smile. This was so obviously the right thing to say for an officer of Chief Inspector Heat's reputation that it was perfectly delightful.

delightful - दिलचस्प, सुहाना, आनंदप्रद

The high official believed the declaration, which chimed in with his idea of the fitness of things. His wisdom was of an official kind, or else he might have reflected upon a matter not of theory but of experience that in the close-woven stuff of relations between conspirator and police there occur unexpected solutions of continuity, sudden holes in space and time.

declaration - वचन, घोषणा, घोषण पत्र, ब्यौरा

chimed - घंटा बजाना, घंटानाद, झंकार

woven - बुना हुआ

conspirator - षड्यंत्रकारी, षड़यंत्रकारी

A given anarchist may be watched inch by inch and minute by minute, but a moment always comes when somehow all sight and touch of him are lost for a few hours, during which something (generally an explosion) more or less deplorable does happen.

deplorable - दयनीय, शोचनीय, निन्दनीय, खेदजनक

But the high official, carried away by his sense of the fitness of things, had smiled, and now the recollection of that smile was very annoying to Chief Inspector Heat, principal expert in anarchist procedure.

This was not the only circumstance whose recollection depressed the usual serenity of the eminent specialist. There was another dating back only to that very morning. The thought that when called urgently to his Assistant Commissioner's private room he had been unable to conceal his astonishment was distinctly vexing.

urgently - ताकीदी ढंग से, अविलंब

commissioner - कमिश्नर, आयुक्त

vexing - खिझाऊ

His instinct of a successful man had taught him long ago that, as a general rule, a reputation is built on manner as much as on achievement. And he felt that his manner when confronted with the telegram had not been impressive. He had opened his eyes widely, and had exclaimed "Impossible!

" exposing himself thereby to the unanswerable retort of a finger-tip laid forcibly on the telegram which the Assistant Commissioner, after reading it aloud, had flung on the desk. To be crushed, as it were, under the tip of a forefinger was an unpleasant experience. Very damaging, too!

thereby - उससे, फलस्वरूप, उसके कारण

unanswerable - लाजवाब, अखंडनीय, उत्तरहीन

retort - प्रत्युत्तर देना

finger-tip - (finger-tip) उंगली के अंगूठे

forcibly - ज़ोर, ज़बरदस्ती

flung - डालना, धक्का देना

crushed - चूर चूर करना, दबाना, जमघट

Furthermore, Chief Inspector Heat was conscious of not having mended matters by allowing himself to express a conviction.

mended - ठीक करना, मरम्मत, मरम्मत करना

"One thing I can tell you at once: none of our lot had anything to do with this."

He was strong in his integrity of a good detective, but he saw now that an impenetrably attentive reserve towards this incident would have served his reputation better. On the other hand, he admitted to himself that it was difficult to preserve one's reputation if rank outsiders were going to take a hand in the business. Outsiders are the bane of the police as of other professions.

integrity - सत्यनिष्ठा, अखंडता, ईमानदारी

impenetrably - अभेद्य रूप से, अभेद्य रूप से

attentive - सतर्क, अवधानी

outsiders - पराया, बाहर का आदमी

bane - परेशान या गुस्सा दिलाने वाला

The tone of the Assistant Commissioner's remarks had been sour enough to set one's teeth on edge.

sour - खट्टा

And since breakfast Chief Inspector Heat had not managed to get anything to eat.

Starting immediately to begin his investigation on the spot, he had swallowed a good deal of raw, unwholesome fog in the park. Then he had walked over to the hospital; and when the investigation in Greenwich was concluded at last he had lost his inclination for food.

Fog - कोहरा

Not accustomed, as the doctors are, to examine closely the mangled remains of human beings, he had been shocked by the sight disclosed to his view when a waterproof sheet had been lifted off a table in a certain apartment of the hospital.

mangled - बिगाड़ना, क्षत विक्षत करना

beings - जीवन, स्वभाव, प्राणी, अस्तित्व

waterproof - बरसाती, जलरोधक कपड़ा, जल रोधक

Another waterproof sheet was spread over that table in the manner of a table-cloth, with the corners turned up over a sort of mound-a heap of rags, scorched and bloodstained, half concealing what might have been an accumulation of raw material for a cannibal feast. It required considerable firmness of mind not to recoil before that sight.

table-cloth - (table-cloth) टेबल कोट

mound - ढेर, टीला, ढेर लगाना, माउंड

scorched - जलना, बरबाद कर देना, जला देना

bloodstained - रक्तरंजित

concealing - छिपाना

cannibal - आदमखोर, मानवभक्षी, नरभक्षी

feast - भोज

recoil - पीछे हटना, ठिठकना, घबरा जाना

Chief Inspector Heat, an efficient officer of his department, stood his ground, but for a whole minute he did not advance. A local constable in uniform cast a sidelong glance, and said, with stolid simplicity:

sidelong - तिरछी नज़र से, तिरछ्

stolid - संकोची, भावहीन, मुर्ख, हटी

"He's all there. Every bit of him. It was a job."

He had been the first man on the spot after the explosion. He mentioned the fact again. He had seen something like a heavy flash of lightning in the fog. At that time he was standing at the door of the King William Street Lodge talking to the keeper. The concussion made him tingle all over. He ran between the trees towards the Observatory.

lightning - तड़ित, विद्युत, बिजली

William - male given name

keeper - रक्षक{रखवाली करने वाला}, रक्षक

concussion - आघात, मस्तिष्काघात

tingle - सनसनाहट, जलना, सिहरन

"As fast as my legs would carry me," he repeated twice.

Chief Inspector Heat, bending forward over the table in a gingerly and horrified manner, let him run on. The hospital porter and another man turned down the corners of the cloth, and stepped aside. The Chief Inspector's eyes searched the gruesome detail of that heap of mixed things, which seemed to have been collected in shambles and rag shops.

gingerly - डरते डरते, सावधानी से/आराम से

horrified - स्तब्ध कर देना, भयभीत करना

gruesome - वीभत्स, कुरूप

shambles - पैर घसीटकर चलना

rag - चिथड़ा

"You used a shovel," he remarked, observing a sprinkling of small gravel, tiny brown bits of bark, and particles of splintered wood as fine as needles.

sprinkling - फैलाव, फुहार, जलसिंचन

gravel - बजरी

bark - भों-भों की आवाज

particles - रत्ती भर, कण, सामान्य प्रत्यय

splintered - छिपटी, चिरना, अलग हो जाना

"Had to in one place," said the stolid constable. "I sent a keeper to fetch a spade. When he heard me scraping the ground with it he leaned his forehead against a tree, and was as sick as a dog."

fetch - जा कर लाना

spade - फावड़ा, खनित्र, बेल, कुदाल

scraping - स्क्रैपिंग, (scrap) स्क्रैपिंग

The Chief Inspector, stooping guardedly over the table, fought down the unpleasant sensation in his throat. The shattering violence of destruction which had made of that body a heap of nameless fragments affected his feelings with a sense of ruthless cruelty, though his reason told him the effect must have been as swift as a flash of lightning.

stooping - झुक कर खड़ा होना, झुकना

guardedly - सावधानी से

shattering - नष्ट करना या हो जाना

nameless - अज्ञात, गुमनाम, बेनाम

The man, whoever he was, had died instantaneously; and yet it seemed impossible to believe that a human body could have reached that state of disintegration without passing through the pangs of inconceivable agony. No physiologist, and still less of a metaphysician, Chief Inspector Heat rose by the force of sympathy, which is a form of fear, above the vulgar conception of time. Instantaneous!

instantaneously - तत्क्षण, तत्काल ही

pangs - दर्द, टीस, पीड़ा

agony - व्यथा, कष्ट

physiologist - शरीरविज्ञानी

metaphysician - A philosopher who specializes in the scholarly study of metaphysics

He remembered all he had ever read in popular publications of long and terrifying dreams dreamed in the instant of waking; of the whole past life lived with frightful intensity by a drowning man as his doomed head bobs up, streaming, for the last time.

past life - पिछले जीवन

frightful - बहुत खराब, भयानक, बहुत खराब

intensity - प्रबलता, उग्रता, प्रचंडता

drowning - instance of drowning

bobs - झटका, सम्मान में झुकअना

The inexplicable mysteries of conscious existence beset Chief Inspector Heat till he evolved a horrible notion that ages of atrocious pain and mental torture could be contained between two successive winks of an eye.

beset - टूट पड़ना

torture - यंत्रणा

successive - एक के बाद एक आने वाला, लगातार

winks - टिमटिमाना, आँख मारना, आँख झपकना

And meantime the Chief Inspector went on, peering at the table with a calm face and the slightly anxious attention of an indigent customer bending over what may be called the by-products of a butcher's shop with a view to an inexpensive Sunday dinner.

meantime - इस बीच, इस बीच, इसी बीच

indigent - दरिद्र

inexpensive - सस्ता

All the time his trained faculties of an excellent investigator, who scorns no chance of information, followed the self-satisfied, disjointed loquacity of the constable.

faculties - शक्ति, संकाय, योग्यता, क्षमता

investigator - जाँच करने वाला, जाँच कर्ता

scorns - तिरस्कार, तिरस्कार करना

disjointed - असंबद्ध, जोड़ अलग करना

"A fair-haired fellow," the last observed in a placid tone, and paused. "The old woman who spoke to the sergeant noticed a fair-haired fellow coming out of Maze Hill Station." He paused. "And he was a fair-haired fellow. She noticed two men coming out of the station after the uptrain had gone on," he continued slowly. "She couldn't tell if they were together.

haired - एक विशेष प्रकार के बाल

placid - शांत, सौम्य

sergeant - सार्जण्ट, हवलदार olice, सारजंट

maze - पहेली, गोरखधंधा, भुलभुलैया

uptrain - उपट्रेन

She took no particular notice of the big one, but the other was a fair, slight chap, carrying a tin varnish can in one hand." The constable ceased.

chap - लड़का

"Know the woman?" muttered the Chief Inspector, with his eyes fixed on the table, and a vague notion in his mind of an inquest to be held presently upon a person likely to remain for ever unknown.

vague - अज्ञात, हल्का, अनिश्चित

inquest - किसी की मृत्यु के कारणों की न्यायिक जाच

"Yes. She's housekeeper to a retired publican, and attends the chapel in Park Place sometimes," the constable uttered weightily, and paused, with another oblique glance at the table.

housekeeper - गृहप्रबंधक, गृहा प्रबंधक

publican - भठियारा, नाकेदार, इजारेदार

chapel - चैपल, नमाज़गाह slam

uttered - चलाना, निकालना, नितान्त, कहना

weightily - भारीपन के साथ

oblique - तिरछा, आड़ी रेखा, असम, तिर्यक

Then suddenly: "Well, here he is-all of him I could see. Fair. Slight-slight enough. Look at that foot there. I picked up the legs first, one after another. He was that scattered you didn't know where to begin."

scattered - फैलाव, छितराव, तितर बितर करना

The constable paused; the least flicker of an innocent self-laudatory smile invested his round face with an infantile expression.

flicker - चमकना

laudatory - प्रशंसात्मक, सराहनापूर्ण

infantile - बचकाना, शिशु संबंधी

"Stumbled," he announced positively. "I stumbled once myself, and pitched on my head too, while running up. Them roots do stick out all about the place. Stumbled against the root of a tree and fell, and that thing he was carrying must have gone off right under his chest, I expect."

stumbled - गिरना, ठोकर, भूल करना

The echo of the words "Person unknown" repeating itself in his inner consciousness bothered the Chief Inspector considerably. He would have liked to trace this affair back to its mysterious origin for his own information. He was professionally curious. Before the public he would have liked to vindicate the efficiency of his department by establishing the identity of that man.

Echo - गूँज, गूंज, प्रतिध्वनि

bothered - परेशान करना, कष्ट देना, परेशानी

professionally - व्यावसायिक ढंग से, दक्षतापूर्वक

vindicate - न्याय सिद्ध होना[करना]

efficiency - दक्षता, कार्यक्षमता, चुस्ती

He was a loyal servant. That, however, appeared impossible. The first term of the problem was unreadable-lacked all suggestion but that of atrocious cruelty.

unreadable - घटिया, अस्पष्ट, अपाठ्य, अपठनीय

Overcoming his physical repugnance, Chief Inspector Heat stretched out his hand without conviction for the salving of his conscience, and took up the least soiled of the rags. It was a narrow strip of velvet with a larger triangular piece of dark blue cloth hanging from it. He held it up to his eyes; and the police constable spoke.

repugnance - असंगति, अरुचि, ऊब, घृणाआ

salving - साल्विंग, (salve) साल्विंग

triangular - त्रिकोणीय, त्रिपक्षीय

"Velvet collar. Funny the old woman should have noticed the velvet collar. Dark blue overcoat with a velvet collar, she has told us. He was the chap she saw, and no mistake. And here he is all complete, velvet collar and all. I don't think I missed a single piece as big as a postage stamp."

postage - डाक व्यय, डाक टिकट, डाक शुल्क

At this point the trained faculties of the Chief Inspector ceased to hear the voice of the constable. He moved to one of the windows for better light. His face, averted from the room, expressed a startled intense interest while he examined closely the triangular piece of broad-cloth.

averted - दूर रहना, फेर लेना, टाल देना

By a sudden jerk he detached it, and only after stuffing it into his pocket turned round to the room, and flung the velvet collar back on the table-

jerk - धक्का, झटका, मूर्ख

"Cover up," he directed the attendants curtly, without another look, and, saluted by the constable, carried off his spoil hastily.

attendants - संलग्न, जुड़ा हुआ, सहवर्ती घटना

saluted - सलामी देना, अभिवादन

carried off - उठाया गया

A convenient train whirled him up to town, alone and pondering deeply, in a third-class compartment. That singed piece of cloth was incredibly valuable, and he could not defend himself from astonishment at the casual manner it had come into his possession. It was as if Fate had thrust that clue into his hands.

whirled - घुमाव, चक्कर, घूमना

pondering - विचार करना

compartment - डिब्बा

singed - झुलस जाना, झुलस जाना, झुलसाना

thrust - आक्रमण, बल, ठेलना, मुख्य विषय

And after the manner of the average man, whose ambition is to command events, he began to mistrust such a gratuitous and accidental success-just because it seemed forced upon him. The practical value of success depends not a little on the way you look at it. But Fate looks at nothing. It has no discretion.

accidental - आकस्मिक, अप्रत्याशित, सांयोगिक

practical value - व्यावहारिक मूल्य

He no longer considered it eminently desirable all round to establish publicly the identity of the man who had blown himself up that morning with such horrible completeness. But he was not certain of the view his department would take. A department is to those it employs a complex personality with ideas and even fads of its own.

eminently - उत्कृष्ट रूप से

desirable - योग्य, वांछित, वांछनीय, इष्ट

completeness - संपूर्णता

fads - सनक

It depends on the loyal devotion of its servants, and the devoted loyalty of trusted servants is associated with a certain amount of affectionate contempt, which keeps it sweet, as it were. By a benevolent provision of Nature no man is a hero to his valet, or else the heroes would have to brush their own clothes. Likewise no department appears perfectly wise to the intimacy of its workers.

loyalty - निष्ठा, वफ़ा

contempt - निन्दनीय, तिरस्कार, अवमानना

provision - खाद्य सामग्री, व्यवस्था, विधान

valet - खिदमतगार, खिदमतगार का काम करना

intimacy - अंतरंगता

Workers - कर्मचारी, श्रमजीवी, कर्ता

A department does not know so much as some of its servants. Being a dispassionate organism, it can never be perfectly informed. It would not be good for its efficiency to know too much.

Chief Inspector Heat got out of the train in a state of thoughtfulness entirely untainted with disloyalty, but not quite free of that jealous mistrust which so often springs on the ground of perfect devotion, whether to women or to institutions.

thoughtfulness - चिंतन, सावधानी, सहृदयता, परवाह

untainted - निष्कलंक, बेदाग

disloyalty - विश्वासघात, बेईमानी, निष्ठाहीनता

jealous - सतर्क, चौकन्ना, सावधान

It was in this mental disposition, physically very empty, but still nauseated by what he had seen, that he had come upon the Professor. Under these conditions which make for irascibility in a sound, normal man, this meeting was specially unwelcome to Chief Inspector Heat. He had not been thinking of the Professor; he had not been thinking of any individual anarchist at all.

nauseated - घृणा पैदा करना

irascibility - क्रोध

specially - खास तौर पर, विशेष रूप से

unwelcome - नापसन्द/अप्रिय/अनिष्ट, अवांछनीय

The complexion of that case had somehow forced upon him the general idea of the absurdity of things human, which in the abstract is sufficiently annoying to an unphilosophical temperament, and in concrete instances becomes exasperating beyond endurance. At the beginning of his career Chief Inspector Heat had been concerned with the more energetic forms of thieving.

absurdity - असंगति, बेवकूफ़ी, जड़ता

exasperating - उत्तेजित करना, उत्तेजित करना

endurance - सहनशीलता, सहन, तितिक्षा

more energetic - अधिक ऊर्जावान

thieving - चोरी

He had gained his spurs in that sphere, and naturally enough had kept for it, after his promotion to another department, a feeling not very far removed from affection. Thieving was not a sheer absurdity.

spurs - प्रेरित करना

It was a form of human industry, perverse indeed, but still an industry exercised in an industrious world; it was work undertaken for the same reason as the work in potteries, in coal mines, in fields, in tool-grinding shops.

perverse - पथभ्रष्ट, विकृत

Potteries - बरतन, मिट्टी के बर्तन

grinding - घिसाई, कष्टकर

It was labour, whose practical difference from the other forms of labour consisted in the nature of its risk, which did not lie in ankylosis, or lead poisoning, or fire-damp, or gritty dust, but in what may be briefly defined in its own special phraseology as "Seven years hard." Chief Inspector Heat was, of course, not insensible to the gravity of moral differences.

ankylosis - the growing together of bones

fire-damp - (fire-damp) आग गंदी

gritty - अप्रिय, दृढ़, कंकड़दार, कुरकुरा

phraseology - शब्द विन्यास, वाक्यरचना

insensible - अनभिज्ञ, संवेदनशून्य

But neither were the thieves he had been looking after. They submitted to the severe sanctions of a morality familiar to Chief Inspector Heat with a certain resignation.

sanctions - स्वीकृति, दण्ड, संस्वीकृत

They were his fellow-citizens gone wrong because of imperfect education, Chief Inspector Heat believed; but allowing for that difference, he could understand the mind of a burglar, because, as a matter of fact, the mind and the instincts of a burglar are of the same kind as the mind and the instincts of a police officer.

instincts - प्रकृति, प्रवृति, सुझ भुज

burglar - सेंधमार

Both recognise the same conventions, and have a working knowledge of each other's methods and of the routine of their respective trades. They understand each other, which is advantageous to both, and establishes a sort of amenity in their relations.

respective - निजी, विशेष, अपना अपना

advantageous - लाभकारी, लाभदायक, लाभप्रद

amenity - सुख-सुविधा

Products of the same machine, one classed as useful and the other as noxious, they take the machine for granted in different ways, but with a seriousness essentially the same. The mind of Chief Inspector Heat was inaccessible to ideas of revolt. But his thieves were not rebels.

noxious - हानिकारक

seriousness - सितारा मछली, गंभीरता

inaccessible - अगम्य, अवघट

His bodily vigour, his cool inflexible manner, his courage and his fairness, had secured for him much respect and some adulation in the sphere of his early successes. He had felt himself revered and admired.

vigour - ताकत, जोश, ऊर्जा, शक्ति/प्रभाव

inflexible - अटल, कठोर, अलचीली, कड़ा

fairness - property of being just

adulation - चापलूसी, खुशामद, चाटूक्ति

revered - आदर करना, आदर करना

And Chief Inspector Heat, arrested within six paces of the anarchist nick-named the Professor, gave a thought of regret to the world of thieves-sane, without morbid ideals, working by routine, respectful of constituted authorities, free from all taint of hate and despair.

nick - खरोंच, छेद करना, जेल

constituted - होना, बनाना, निर्माण करना

despair - निराशा, मायूसी

After paying this tribute to what is normal in the constitution of society (for the idea of thieving appeared to his instinct as normal as the idea of property), Chief Inspector Heat felt very angry with himself for having stopped, for having spoken, for having taken that way at all on the ground of it being a short cut from the station to the headquarters.

tribute - शुल्क, श्रद्धांजलि, श्रधांजलि

constitution - संविधान, आईन, राज्यांग, दस्तूर

And he spoke again in his big authoritative voice, which, being moderated, had a threatening character.

authoritative - बाइख़्तियार, प्रामाणिक

moderated - औसत दर्जे का, कम, कम होना

"You are not wanted, I tell you," he repeated.

The anarchist did not stir. An inward laugh of derision uncovered not only his teeth but his gums as well, shook him all over, without the slightest sound. Chief Inspector Heat was led to add, against his better judgment:

Derision - उपहास, ठट्ठा

judgment - विचार, जाँच, समझ, विवेक, अनुमान

"Not yet. When I want you I will know where to find you."

Those were perfectly proper words, within the tradition and suitable to his character of a police officer addressing one of his special flock. But the reception they got departed from tradition and propriety. It was outrageous. The stunted, weakly figure before him spoke at last.

flock - जानवरों का समूह

weakly - अशक्त, दुर्बलतापूर्वक

"I've no doubt the papers would give you an obituary notice then. You know best what that would be worth to you. I should think you can imagine easily the sort of stuff that would be printed. But you may be exposed to the unpleasantness of being buried together with me, though I suppose your friends would make an effort to sort us out as much as possible."

obituary notice - शोक समाचार

unpleasantness - झगड़ा, विद्वेष, अप्रिय घटना

With all his healthy contempt for the spirit dictating such speeches, the atrocious allusiveness of the words had its effect on Chief Inspector Heat. He had too much insight, and too much exact information as well, to dismiss them as rot. The dusk of this narrow lane took on a sinister tint from the dark, frail little figure, its back to the wall, and speaking with a weak, self-confident voice.

dictating - आज्ञा, आज्ञा देना, लिखवाना

allusiveness - the quality of being allusive

rot - सड़ाना, सड़ना

tint - हलका रंग

To the vigorous, tenacious vitality of the Chief Inspector, the physical wretchedness of that being, so obviously not fit to live, was ominous; for it seemed to him that if he had the misfortune to be such a miserable object he would not have cared how soon he died. Life had such a strong hold upon him that a fresh wave of nausea broke out in slight perspiration upon his brow.

vigorous - सशक्त, प्रबल, ओजपूर्ण, ओजस्वी

tenacious - अटल, दृढ

vitality - उत्साह, प्राणशक्ति, जीवनक्षमता

wretchedness - दुर्दशा, भाग्यहीनता, दयनीयता

ominous - अनिष्टसूचक, अपशगुन, अशुभसूचक

misfortune - दुर्भाग्य, बदकिस्मती, अवदशा

nausea - उबकाई, मतली, मिचली, ओकाई

The murmur of town life, the subdued rumble of wheels in the two invisible streets to the right and left, came through the curve of the sordid lane to his ears with a precious familiarity and an appealing sweetness. He was human. But Chief Inspector Heat was also a man, and he could not let such words pass.

rumble - पता लगाना, खोज निकालना

invisible - अदृश्य

sweetness - मधुरिमा, माधुर्य, माधुरी

"All this is good to frighten children with," he said. "I'll have you yet."

It was very well said, without scorn, with an almost austere quietness.

austere - सख्त, सादा, संयमी, आडंबरहीन

quietness - शान्ति, शांति, नीरवता, सन्नाटा

"Doubtless," was the answer; "but there's no time like the present, believe me. For a man of real convictions this is a fine opportunity of self-sacrifice. You may not find another so favourable, so humane. There isn't even a cat near us, and these condemned old houses would make a good heap of bricks where you stand.

doubtless - असंदिग्ध, नीस्संदेह, निसन्देह

sacrifice - क़ुरबान करना

humane - मानवोचित

You'll never get me at so little cost to life and property, which you are paid to protect."

"You don't know who you're speaking to," said Chief Inspector Heat firmly. "If I were to lay my hands on you now I would be no better than yourself."

"Ah! The game!'

"You may be sure our side will win in the end. It may yet be necessary to make people believe that some of you ought to be shot at sight like mad dogs. Then that will be the game. But I'll be damned if I know what yours is. I don't believe you know yourselves. You'll never get anything by it."

at sight - दृष्टि पर

"Meantime it's you who get something from it-so far. And you get it easily, too. I won't speak of your salary, but haven't you made your name simply by not understanding what we are after?"

"What are you after, then?" asked Chief Inspector Heat, with scornful haste, like a man in a hurry who perceives he is wasting his time.

scornful - अपमानजनक, घृणापूर्ण

haste - जल्दी, जल्दबाजी, अविलंब

The perfect anarchist answered by a smile which did not part his thin colourless lips; and the celebrated Chief Inspector felt a sense of superiority which induced him to raise a warning finger.

colourless - रंगहीन, बेरंग, अवर्ण

"Give it up-whatever it is," he said in an admonishing tone, but not so kindly as if he were condescending to give good advice to a cracksman of repute. "Give it up. You'll find we are too many for you."

admonishing - चेतावनी देना

condescending to - अत्याचारी

cracksman - ठग, चोर

repute - प्रतिष्ठा, कीर्ति, ख्याति

The fixed smile on the Professor's lips wavered, as if the mocking spirit within had lost its assurance. Chief Inspector Heat went on:

wavered - हिचकिचाना, डगमगाना, हिचकिचाहट

"Don't you believe me eh? Well, you've only got to look about you. We are. And anyway, you're not doing it well. You're always making a mess of it. Why, if the thieves didn't know their work better they would starve."

The hint of an invincible multitude behind that man's back roused a sombre indignation in the breast of the Professor. He smiled no longer his enigmatic and mocking smile. The resisting power of numbers, the unattackable stolidity of a great multitude, was the haunting fear of his sinister loneliness. His lips trembled for some time before he managed to say in a strangled voice:

invincible - अजेय, अजय, unconquered

enigmatic - रहस्यमय, गूढ़

resisting power - विरोधी शक्ति

unattackable - अनाक्रमणीय

stolidity - भावशून्यता, तटस्थता

haunting - बार बार याद आने वाला

loneliness - अकेलापन, तनहाई

strangled - दबाना, दम घुटना, गला घोंटना

"I am doing my work better than you're doing yours."

"That'll do now," interrupted Chief Inspector Heat hurriedly; and the Professor laughed right out this time. While still laughing he moved on; but he did not laugh long. It was a sad-faced, miserable little man who emerged from the narrow passage into the bustle of the broad thoroughfare.

bustle - हलचल

He walked with the nerveless gait of a tramp going on, still going on, indifferent to rain or sun in a sinister detachment from the aspects of sky and earth.

nerveless - साहसी, शक्तिहीन

gait - चाल

tramp - पैर घसीट कर चलना, माल जहाज

Chief Inspector Heat, on the other hand, after watching him for a while, stepped out with the purposeful briskness of a man disregarding indeed the inclemencies of the weather, but conscious of having an authorised mission on this earth and the moral support of his kind.

purposeful - दृढ संकल्प, उद्देश्यपूर्ण

briskness - जोश, तीव्रता, चुस्ती

inclemencies - प्रचण्डता, खराब मौसम

authorised - अधिकार देना, अधिकृत

All the inhabitants of the immense town, the population of the whole country, and even the teeming millions struggling upon the planet, were with him-down to the very thieves and mendicants. Yes, the thieves themselves were sure to be with him in his present work. The consciousness of universal support in his general activity heartened him to grapple with the particular problem.

teeming - खाली करना, भरा होना

mendicants - भिखारी, भिक्षु, भीक्षु, भिक्षुक

heartened - हिम्मत बढ़ाना

grapple - भिड़ जाना

The problem immediately before the Chief Inspector was that of managing the Assistant Commissioner of his department, his immediate superior. This is the perennial problem of trusty and loyal servants; anarchism gave it its particular complexion, but nothing more. Truth to say, Chief Inspector Heat thought but little of anarchism.

perennial - सदाबहार, शाश्वत, चिरस्थायी

He did not attach undue importance to it, and could never bring himself to consider it seriously. It had more the character of disorderly conduct; disorderly without the human excuse of drunkenness, which at any rate implies good feeling and an amiable leaning towards festivity. As criminals, anarchists were distinctly no class-no class at all.

undue - असंगत, अनुचित, अदेय, अनावश्यक

drunkenness - नशा, मत्तता/मतवालापन, मदहोशी

festivity - उत्सव

And recalling the Professor, Chief Inspector Heat, without checking his swinging pace, muttered through his teeth:

"Lunatic."

lunatic - पागल, मूर्खतापूर्ण, उन्मत्त

Catching thieves was another matter altogether. It had that quality of seriousness belonging to every form of open sport where the best man wins under perfectly comprehensible rules. There were no rules for dealing with anarchists. And that was distasteful to the Chief Inspector.

comprehensible - बोधगम्य, समझने के योग्य

distasteful - बेस्वाद, अरुचिकर

It was all foolishness, but that foolishness excited the public mind, affected persons in high places, and touched upon international relations. A hard, merciless contempt settled rigidly on the Chief Inspector's face as he walked on. His mind ran over all the anarchists of his flock. Not one of them had half the spunk of this or that burglar he had known. Not half-not one-tenth.

foolishness - मूर्खता

merciless - कठोर, निष्ठुर

spunk - हिम्मत, वीर्य, आकर्षक पुरुष

tenth - दसवां

At headquarters the Chief Inspector was admitted at once to the Assistant Commissioner's private room. He found him, pen in hand, bent over a great table bestrewn with papers, as if worshipping an enormous double inkstand of bronze and crystal.

worshipping - समादर करना, पूजा करना

inkstand - Small tray containin pens and an inkwell

crystal - क्रिस्टल, स्फटिक, अमल, बिल्लौर

Speaking tubes resembling snakes were tied by the heads to the back of the Assistant Commissioner's wooden arm-chair, and their gaping mouths seemed ready to bite his elbows. And in this attitude he raised only his eyes, whose lids were darker than his face and very much creased. The reports had come in: every anarchist had been exactly accounted for.

creased - चुन्नट, शिकन, सिलवट

After saying this he lowered his eyes, signed rapidly two single sheets of paper, and only then laid down his pen, and sat well back, directing an inquiring gaze at his renowned subordinate. The Chief Inspector stood it well, deferential but inscrutable.

inquiring - पूछना, पता लगाना, छानबीन करना

subordinate - अधीन, गौण शब्द, मातहत

"I daresay you were right," said the Assistant Commissioner, "in telling me at first that the London anarchists had nothing to do with this. I quite appreciate the excellent watch kept on them by your men. On the other hand, this, for the public, does not amount to more than a confession of ignorance."

The Assistant Commissioner's delivery was leisurely, as it were cautious. His thought seemed to rest poised on a word before passing to another, as though words had been the stepping-stones for his intellect picking its way across the waters of error. "Unless you have brought something useful from Greenwich," he added.

poised - तैयार, संतुलित, संयमी

The Chief Inspector began at once the account of his investigation in a clear matter-of-fact manner. His superior turning his chair a little, and crossing his thin legs, leaned sideways on his elbow, with one hand shading his eyes. His listening attitude had a sort of angular and sorrowful grace.

angular - भद्दा, नुकीला, कड़क और असभ्य

sorrowful - उदास, शोकसंतृप्त

Gleams as of highly burnished silver played on the sides of his ebony black head when he inclined it slowly at the end.

burnished - चमकाना, चमकाना/माँजना/झलकाना

ebony - आबनूस

inclined - प्रोत्साहित करना

Chief Inspector Heat waited with the appearance of turning over in his mind all he had just said, but, as a matter of fact, considering the advisability of saying something more. The Assistant Commissioner cut his hesitation short.

advisability - उपयुक्तता

"You believe there were two men?" he asked, without uncovering his eyes.

uncovering - पर्दा दूर कर, बता देना, खोलना

The Chief Inspector thought it more than probable. In his opinion, the two men had parted from each other within a hundred yards from the Observatory walls. He explained also how the other man could have got out of the park speedily without being observed. The fog, though not very dense, was in his favour.

speedily - जल्दी, तेज़ी से

He seemed to have escorted the other to the spot, and then to have left him there to do the job single-handed.

escorted - सहचर, मार्गरक्षण करना

Taking the time those two were seen coming out of Maze Hill Station by the old woman, and the time when the explosion was heard, the Chief Inspector thought that the other man might have been actually at the Greenwich Park Station, ready to catch the next train up, at the moment his comrade was destroying himself so thoroughly.

"Very thoroughly-eh?" murmured the Assistant Commissioner from under the shadow of his hand.

The Chief Inspector in a few vigorous words described the aspect of the remains. "The coroner's jury will have a treat," he added grimly.

coroner - कारोनर

The Assistant Commissioner uncovered his eyes.

"We shall have nothing to tell them," he remarked languidly.

He looked up, and for a time watched the markedly non-committal attitude of his Chief Inspector. His nature was one that is not easily accessible to illusions. He knew that a department is at the mercy of its subordinate officers, who have their own conceptions of loyalty. His career had begun in a tropical colony. He had liked his work there. It was police work.

markedly - in a marked manner

committal - रवानगी, प्रेषण, पागलखाने भेजनाआ

accessible - उपलब्ध, सुगम्य, गमनीय, प्राप्य

He had been very successful in tracking and breaking up certain nefarious secret societies amongst the natives. Then he took his long leave, and got married rather impulsively. It was a good match from a worldly point of view, but his wife formed an unfavourable opinion of the colonial climate on hearsay evidence. On the other hand, she had influential connections. It was an excellent match.

nefarious - जघन्य, अति दुष्ट

secret societies - गुप्त समाज

impulsively - आवेगपूर्ण ढंग से, आवेगशील

Colonial - उपनिवेशी, औपनिवेशिक

hearsay - सुनी सुनाई, अफ़वाह

influential - प्रभावशाली, दबदबेवाला

But he did not like the work he had to do now. He felt himself dependent on too many subordinates and too many masters. The near presence of that strange emotional phenomenon called public opinion weighed upon his spirits, and alarmed him by its irrational nature.

subordinates - अधीन, गौण शब्द, मातहत

irrational - सितारा मछली, असंगत, अविवेकी

No doubt that from ignorance he exaggerated to himself its power for good and evil-especially for evil; and the rough east winds of the English spring (which agreed with his wife) augmented his general mistrust of men's motives and of the efficiency of their organisation. The futility of office work especially appalled him on those days so trying to his sensitive liver.

exaggerated - बढा चढा कर कहना, बढ़ा चढ़ाकर कहना

winds - करना, लच्छी बनाना

augmented - वृद्धि करना, वृद्धि करना

futility - निरर्थकता, असारता

office work - कार्यालय कार्य

He got up, unfolding himself to his full height, and with a heaviness of step remarkable in so slender a man, moved across the room to the window. The panes streamed with rain, and the short street he looked down into lay wet and empty, as if swept clear suddenly by a great flood. It was a very trying day, choked in raw fog to begin with, and now drowned in cold rain.

heaviness - भारीपन, उदासी, नीरसता

The flickering, blurred flames of gas-lamps seemed to be dissolving in a watery atmosphere. And the lofty pretensions of a mankind oppressed by the miserable indignities of the weather appeared as a colossal and hopeless vanity deserving of scorn, wonder, and compassion.

flickering - झलक, टिमटिमाना, चमकना, झलकना

blurred - धब्बा, विकृत करना, धुंधला करना

dissolving - विलुप्त होना, (dissolve) विलुप्त होना

watery - आबी

lofty - उत्कृष्ट, उदात्त, अहंकारी

pretensions - दावा, मिथ्याभिमान, झूठा दावा

indignities - अपमान, अनादर

"Horrible, horrible!" thought the Assistant Commissioner to himself, with his face near the window-pane. "We have been having this sort of thing now for ten days; no, a fortnight-a fortnight." He ceased to think completely for a time. That utter stillness of his brain lasted about three seconds.

fortnight - दो सफ्ताह, दो सफ्ताह, पखवारा

Then he said perfunctorily: "You have set inquiries on foot for tracing that other man up and down the line?"

perfunctorily - लापरवाही से, यन्त्रवत् ढंग से

inquiries - जाँच, सर्वेक्षण, अन्वेषण

He had no doubt that everything needful had been done. Chief Inspector Heat knew, of course, thoroughly the business of man-hunting. And these were the routine steps, too, that would be taken as a matter of course by the merest beginner.

needful - ज्ॅअरूरी

beginner - नया

A few inquiries amongst the ticket collectors and the porters of the two small railway stations would give additional details as to the appearance of the two men; the inspection of the collected tickets would show at once where they came from that morning. It was elementary, and could not have been neglected.

porters - पोर्टर, द्वारपाल, दरवानअ, क़ुली

neglected - उपेक्षा करना, लापरवाही, उपेक्षा

Accordingly the Chief Inspector answered that all this had been done directly the old woman had come forward with her deposition. And he mentioned the name of a station. "That's where they came from, sir," he went on. "The porter who took the tickets at Maze Hill remembers two chaps answering to the description passing the barrier.

accordingly - फलस्वरूप, परिस्थिति के अनुसार

deposition - गवाही, शहादत

chaps - फटाव, दरार, आदमी, गाल, जबड़ा

They seemed to him two respectable working men of a superior sort-sign painters or house decorators. The big man got out of a third-class compartment backward, with a bright tin can in his hand. On the platform he gave it to carry to the fair young fellow who followed him. All this agrees exactly with what the old woman told the police sergeant in Greenwich."

decorators - कमरे इत्यादि को सजाने वाला व्यक्ति

The Assistant Commissioner, still with his face turned to the window, expressed his doubt as to these two men having had anything to do with the outrage. All this theory rested upon the utterances of an old charwoman who had been nearly knocked down by a man in a hurry. Not a very substantial authority indeed, unless on the ground of sudden inspiration, which was hardly tenable.

utterances - अभिव्यक्ति, कथन, उच्चारण/बातचीत

charwoman - cleaning lady

substantial - वास्तविक, बहुत अधिक, संतोषजनक

sudden inspiration - त्वरित प्रेरणा

tenable - धार्य, मान्य, तर्कसंगत

"Frankly now, could she have been really inspired?" he queried, with grave irony, keeping his back to the room, as if entranced by the contemplation of the town's colossal forms half lost in the night.

queried - के बारे में पूछताछ करना, पूछना

irony - व्याजोक्ति, व्यंग्य

He did not even look round when he heard the mutter of the word "Providential" from the principal subordinate of his department, whose name, printed sometimes in the papers, was familiar to the great public as that of one of its zealous and hard-working protectors. Chief Inspector Heat raised his voice a little.

look round - घुमाओ

providential - दैवकृत, सौभाग्यपूर्ण

zealous - उत्साही, जोशीले, सरगर्म

protectors - संरक्षक, रक्षक, रक्षी, रक्षमान

"Strips and bits of bright tin were quite visible to me," he said. "That's a pretty good corroboration."

strips - पोशाक, निकाल देना, पट्टी

corroboration - पुष्टीकरण

"And these men came from that little country station," the Assistant Commissioner mused aloud, wondering. He was told that such was the name on two tickets out of three given up out of that train at Maze Hill. The third person who got out was a hawker from Gravesend well known to the porters.

hawker - फेरी वाला, फेरीवाला

The Chief Inspector imparted that information in a tone of finality with some ill humour, as loyal servants will do in the consciousness of their fidelity and with the sense of the value of their loyal exertions. And still the Assistant Commissioner did not turn away from the darkness outside, as vast as a sea.

fidelity - वफ़ादारी, अमानत, स्वामीभक्ति

exertions - प्रयास, परिश्रम, श्रम

"Two foreign anarchists coming from that place," he said, apparently to the window-pane. "It's rather unaccountable."'

unaccountable - अनुत्तरदायी, दुरूह

"Yes, sir. But it would be still more unaccountable if that Michaelis weren't staying in a cottage in the neighbourhood."

At the sound of that name, falling unexpectedly into this annoying affair, the Assistant Commissioner dismissed brusquely the vague remembrance of his daily whist party at his club. It was the most comforting habit of his life, in a mainly successful display of his skill without the assistance of any subordinate.

remembrance - स्मरण, निशानी

whist - ताश का एक खेल

most comforting - सबसे बहाना देने वाला

He entered his club to play from five to seven, before going home to dinner, forgetting for those two hours whatever was distasteful in his life, as though the game were a beneficent drug for allaying the pangs of moral discontent.

beneficent - उदार, परोपकारी, उपकारी, दानी

allaying - शांतिप्रद, (allay) शांतिप्रद

discontent - असंतोष

His partners were the gloomily humorous editor of a celebrated magazine; a silent, elderly barrister with malicious little eyes; and a highly martial, simple-minded old Colonel with nervous brown hands. They were his club acquaintances merely. He never met them elsewhere except at the card-table.

gloomily - उदास हो कर, उदास हो कर

barrister - विधी वक्ता/बैरिस्टर, विधिवक्ता

malicious - द्वेषी, दुर्भावनापूर्ण

Colonel - कर्नल

acquaintances - ज्ञान, पहचान, परिचित, परिचय

card-table - (card-table) कार्ड टेबल

But they all seemed to approach the game in the spirit of co-sufferers, as if it were indeed a drug against the secret ills of existence; and every day as the sun declined over the countless roofs of the town, a mellow, pleasurable impatience, resembling the impulse of a sure and profound friendship, lightened his professional labours.

sufferers - पीड़ित

countless - असंख्य, असंख्य/अनगणित, बीसों

mellow - सुहावना, दयालु, मृदु, नरम

lightened - हल्का करना, प्रकाश बढाना

And now this pleasurable sensation went out of him with something resembling a physical shock, and was replaced by a special kind of interest in his work of social protection-an improper sort of interest, which may be defined best as a sudden and alert mistrust of the weapon in his hand.

improper - अनुपयुक्त, असंगत, अनुचित, गलत

alert - सतर्क

CHAPTER VI

The lady patroness of Michaelis, the ticket-of-leave apostle of humanitarian hopes, was one of the most influential and distinguished connections of the Assistant Commissioner's wife, whom she called Annie, and treated still rather as a not very wise and utterly inexperienced young girl.

patroness - संरक्षिका

inexperienced - अनुभवहीन, अव्यूत्पन्न

But she had consented to accept him on a friendly footing, which was by no means the case with all of his wife's influential connections. Married young and splendidly at some remote epoch of the past, she had had for a time a close view of great affairs and even of some great men. She herself was a great lady.

consented - स्वीकृति, सहमति, अनुमति देना

splendidly - शानदार ढंग से

epoch - युग, काल, ज़माना

Old now in the number of her years, she had that sort of exceptional temperament which defies time with scornful disregard, as if it were a rather vulgar convention submitted to by the mass of inferior mankind. Many other conventions easier to set aside, alas!

exceptional - विशिष्ट, असाधारण, असामान्य

defies - विरोध करना, सामना करना

disregard - अनादर, अवहेलना करना, उपेक्षा

Alas - हाय, (ala) हाय

failed to obtain her recognition, also on temperamental grounds-either because they bored her, or else because they stood in the way of her scorns and sympathies. Admiration was a sentiment unknown to her (it was one of the secret griefs of her most noble husband against her)-first, as always more or less tainted with mediocrity, and next as being in a way an admission of inferiority.

admiration - तारीफ़, सफत, उपमा

griefs - गहरा दुःख, गहरा दुःख, दुख, रंज

mediocrity - साधारण कोटि

admission - स्वीकृति, दाखिला, पैठ, प्रवेश

And both were frankly inconceivable to her nature. To be fearlessly outspoken in her opinions came easily to her, since she judged solely from the standpoint of her social position.

outspoken - स्पष्टवादी, मुँहखुला, मुँहफ़ट

solely - पूरी तरह से, पूरी तरह से

standpoint - दृष्टिकोण

She was equally untrammelled in her actions; and as her tactfulness proceeded from genuine humanity, her bodily vigour remained remarkable and her superiority was serene and cordial, three generations had admired her infinitely, and the last she was likely to see had pronounced her a wonderful woman.

untrammelled - अबाधित, मुक्त, अबादित

tactfulness - व्यवहार कुशलता, समझ बूझ

serene - प्रशान्त

cordial - शिष्ट, अत्यधिक, हार्दिक

Meantime intelligent, with a sort of lofty simplicity, and curious at heart, but not like many women merely of social gossip, she amused her age by attracting within her ken through the power of her great, almost historical, social prestige everything that rose above the dead level of mankind, lawfully or unlawfully, by position, wit, audacity, fortune or misfortune.

gossip - गप-शप, अफ़वाह

amused - मनोरंजन करना, मन बहलाना

ken - जानना, ज्ञान की सीमा

unlawfully - अवैध रूप से, ग़ैरकानूनी ढँग से

audacity - गुस्ताख़ी

Royal Highnesses, artists, men of science, young statesmen, and charlatans of all ages and conditions, who, unsubstantial and light, bobbing up like corks, show best the direction of the surface currents, had been welcomed in that house, listened to, penetrated, understood, appraised, for her own edification. In her own words, she liked to watch what the world was coming to.

Highnesses - अत्र भवान्, ऊँचाई

statesmen - राजनेता, राजनीति विशारद

unsubstantial - अवास्तविक

bobbing - झटका, सम्मान में झुकअना

corks - काग लगाना, काग लगाना, कर्क

penetrated - समझना, घुसना, काम करना

appraised - मूल्यांकन करना, मूल्यांकन करना

edification - नैतिक उन्नति, मानसिक उन्नति

And as she had a practical mind her judgment of men and things, though based on special prejudices, was seldom totally wrong, and almost never wrong-headed. Her drawing-room was probably the only place in the wide world where an Assistant Commissioner of Police could meet a convict liberated on a ticket-of-leave on other than professional and official ground.

convict - अपराधी, अपराधी ठहराना, दोषी

liberated - मुक्त करना

Who had brought Michaelis there one afternoon the Assistant Commissioner did not remember very well. He had a notion it must have been a certain Member of Parliament of illustrious parentage and unconventional sympathies, which were the standing joke of the comic papers.

illustrious - प्रसिद्ध, प्रख्यात

unconventional - रूढीमुक्त, अवैध, अपरंपरागत

comic papers - कॉमिक पेपर्स

The notabilities and even the simple notorieties of the day brought each other freely to that temple of an old woman's not ignoble curiosity.

notabilities - विशेषता

notorieties - बदनामी, कुख्याति

ignoble - नीच, अधम

You never could guess whom you were likely to come upon being received in semi-privacy within the faded blue silk and gilt frame screen, making a cosy nook for a couch and a few arm-chairs in the great drawing-room, with its hum of voices and the groups of people seated or standing in the light of six tall windows.

gilt - मुलम्मा

cosy - आरामदेह, आरामदायक

nook - कोना

Hum - गूँज, गुंजन, चहल पहल होना

Michaelis had been the object of a revulsion of popular sentiment, the same sentiment which years ago had applauded the ferocity of the life sentence passed upon him for complicity in a rather mad attempt to rescue some prisoners from a police van. The plan of the conspirators had been to shoot down the horses and overpower the escort. Unfortunately, one of the police constables got shot too.

revulsion - आकस्मिक भाव परिवर्तन, घृणाआ

applauded - ताली बजा कर प्रशंसा करना

complicity - The state of being complicit

police van - पुलिस वैन

conspirators - षड्यंत्रकारी, षड़यंत्रकारी

overpower - पराजित करना, वश में करना

escort - सहचर, मार्गरक्षण करना

constables - चौकीदार/कान्स्टेबुल, कंस्टेबल

He left a wife and three small children, and the death of that man aroused through the length and breadth of a realm for whose defence, welfare, and glory men die every day as matter of duty, an outburst of furious indignation, of a raging implacable pity for the victim. Three ring-leaders got hanged.

aroused - उत्तेजित करना, उत्तेजित, जगाना

realm - क्षेत्र, राज्य

glory - यश, शान

outburst - प्रकोप, आवेग, प्रक्षोभ, समुद्घात

raging - छेड़ छाड़ करना, घटिया समाचारपत्र

ring - अंगूठी

Michaelis, young and slim, locksmith by trade, and great frequenter of evening schools, did not even know that anybody had been killed, his part with a few others being to force open the door at the back of the special conveyance. When arrested he had a bunch of skeleton keys in one pocket, a heavy chisel in another, and a short crowbar in his hand: neither more nor less than a burglar.

slim - पतला

locksmith - तालासाज़

force open - बल खोलो

Conveyance - हस्तान्तरण पत्र, परिवहन, वाहन

skeleton keys - स्केलेट की

chisel - छेनी

crowbar - बोझ उठाने की डण्डी/लोहदंड, खनती

But no burglar would have received such a heavy sentence. The death of the constable had made him miserable at heart, but the failure of the plot also. He did not conceal either of these sentiments from his empanelled countrymen, and that sort of compunction appeared shockingly imperfect to the crammed court.

sentiments - भावना, विचार, मनोभाव, भावुकता

countrymen - ग्रामीण, ग्रामवासी, देशवासी

compunction - खेद, आत्मग्लानि

shockingly - उद्वेगकारी ढंग से

crammed - रटना, ठूँसना, ठसाठस भरना

The judge on passing sentence commented feelingly upon the depravity and callousness of the young prisoner.

feelingly - भावना सहित

depravity - चरित्रहीनता, भ्रष्टता

callousness - कठोरता, निष्ठुरता, कडापन

That made the groundless fame of his condemnation; the fame of his release was made for him on no better grounds by people who wished to exploit the sentimental aspect of his imprisonment either for purposes of their own or for no intelligible purpose. He let them do so in the innocence of his heart and the simplicity of his mind. Nothing that happened to him individually had any importance.

groundless - baseless

condemnation - दोष लगाना, निंदा

imprisonment - अवरोधन, कारावास, क़ैद

intelligible - समझ में आने लायक, बोधनीय

innocence - निष्कलुष, निर्मलता, निष्कपटता

individually - व्यक्तिगत रूप से, एक एक कर के

He was like those saintly men whose personality is lost in the contemplation of their faith. His ideas were not in the nature of convictions. They were inaccessible to reasoning.

saintly - सन्तसुलभ, साधु संतों जैस्

They formed in all their contradictions and obscurities an invincible and humanitarian creed, which he confessed rather than preached, with an obstinate gentleness, a smile of pacific assurance on his lips, and his candid blue eyes cast down because the sight of faces troubled his inspiration developed in solitude.

obscurities - अंधकार, कठिनाई, अस्पष्टता

creed - धर्म

preached - उपदेश देना, प्रवचन देना

obstinate - ज़िद्दी, हठी, अक्खड़

gentleness - क्रमशः ढलने की वृत्ति, सौम्यता

Pacific - स्थिर, शांतिकर, शांतिप्रिय

candid - खरा, खुले दिल का, सुस्पष्ट

inspiration - उत्प्रेरणा, प्रेरणा

In that characteristic attitude, pathetic in his grotesque and incurable obesity which he had to drag like a galley slave's bullet to the end of his days, the Assistant Commissioner of Police beheld the ticket-of-leave apostle filling a privileged arm-chair within the screen.

pathetic - दयनीय, शोचनीय, भावात्मक

grotesque - विलक्षण, विकृत, भौंड़ा

galley - जहाज का रसोईघर, पोत, रसोईघर

He sat there by the head of the old lady's couch, mild-voiced and quiet, with no more self-consciousness than a very small child, and with something of a child's charm-the appealing charm of trustfulness. Confident of the future, whose secret ways had been revealed to him within the four walls of a well-known penitentiary, he had no reason to look with suspicion upon anybody.

If he could not give the great and curious lady a very definite idea as to what the world was coming to, he had managed without effort to impress her by his unembittered faith, by the sterling quality of his optimism.

sterling quality - स्टर्लिंग गुणवत्ता

A certain simplicity of thought is common to serene souls at both ends of the social scale. The great lady was simple in her own way. His views and beliefs had nothing in them to shock or startle her, since she judged them from the standpoint of her lofty position. Indeed, her sympathies were easily accessible to a man of that sort.

startle - चकित, चौंक जाना, चौंकाना

She was not an exploiting capitalist herself; she was, as it were, above the play of economic conditions. And she had a great capacity of pity for the more obvious forms of common human miseries, precisely because she was such a complete stranger to them that she had to translate her conception into terms of mental suffering before she could grasp the notion of their cruelty.

Capitalist - पूँजीवादी, पूँजीपति

miseries - विपत्ति, दुखअ, दुःख/विपत्ती

mental suffering - मानसिक दुःख

The Assistant Commissioner remembered very well the conversation between these two. He had listened in silence. It was something as exciting in a way, and even touching in its foredoomed futility, as the efforts at moral intercourse between the inhabitants of remote planets. But this grotesque incarnation of humanitarian passion appealed somehow, to one's imagination.

foredoomed - भवितव्य, असफलता का पूर्वाभास

incarnation - अवतार

At last Michaelis rose, and taking the great lady's extended hand, shook it, retained it for a moment in his great cushioned palm with unembarrassed friendliness, and turned upon the semi-private nook of the drawing-room his back, vast and square, and as if distended under the short tweed jacket.

cushioned - गद्दी, बचाना, दूर रखना

unembarrassed - बेपरवाह

friendliness - मित्रता

tweed - एक प्रकार का ऊनी कपड़ा, ट्वीड

Glancing about in serene benevolence, he waddled along to the distant door between the knots of other visitors. The murmur of conversations paused on his passage. He smiled innocently at a tall, brilliant girl, whose eyes met his accidentally, and went out unconscious of the glances following him across the room.

glancing - झलकना, (glance) झलकना

benevolence - भलाई

waddled - डगमगाते हुए चलना, डगमगाती चाल

knots - बंधन, समूह, गुच्छा, सार, उलझाना

innocently - भोलेपन से, कानूनी ढंग से

Michaelis'first appearance in the world was a success-a success of esteem unmarred by a single murmur of derision. The interrupted conversations were resumed in their proper tone, grave or light.

esteem - सम्मान करना, आदर, आदर/सम्मान

unmarred - बेदाग

resumed - फिर आरम्भ करना, सार

Only a well-set-up, long-limbed, active-looking man of forty talking with two ladies near a window remarked aloud, with an unexpected depth of feeling: "Eighteen stone, I should say, and not five foot six. Poor fellow! It's terrible-terrible."

limbed - शरारती, शाखा, अंग, पंखुड़ी, छोर

The lady of the house, gazing absently at the Assistant Commissioner, left alone with her on the private side of the screen, seemed to be rearranging her mental impressions behind her thoughtful immobility of a handsome old face.

absently - भावशून्यता

rearranging - फिर से सजाना, फिर से तय करना

handsome - ख़ूबसूरत

Men with grey moustaches and full, healthy, vaguely smiling countenances approached, circling round the screen; two mature women with a matronly air of gracious resolution; a clean-shaved individual with sunken cheeks, and dangling a gold-mounted eyeglass on a broad black ribbon with an old-world, dandified effect.

countenances - समर्थन, मुखाकृति, अनुमोदन करना

matronly - मोटी प्रौढ़ा स्त्री के समान

gracious - आरामदेह, रमणीय, दयालु, दयामय

dangling - लटका हुआ, (dangle) लटका हुआ

eyeglass - लेन्स

A silence deferential, but full of reserves, reigned for a moment, and then the great lady exclaimed, not with resentment, but with a sort of protesting indignation:

"And that officially is supposed to be a revolutionist! What nonsense." She looked hard at the Assistant Commissioner, who murmured apologetically:

officially - सरकारी तौर पर, सरकारी तौर से

revolutionist - क्रान्तिकारी

What nonsense - बेवकूफ

apologetically - खेदसूचक ढंग से, खेदसूचक ढंग से

"Not a dangerous one perhaps."

"Not dangerous-I should think not indeed. He is a mere believer. It's the temperament of a saint," declared the great lady in a firm tone. "And they kept him shut up for twenty years. One shudders at the stupidity of it. And now they have let him out everybody belonging to him is gone away somewhere or dead.

believer - आस्तिक, मूमिन slam

saint - सेंट

shudders - हिलना, रोंगटे खड़े कर देना

stupidity - मूर्खता, नासमझी, बुद्धिहीनता

His parents are dead; the girl he was to marry has died while he was in prison; he has lost the skill necessary for his manual occupation. He told me all this himself with the sweetest patience; but then, he said, he had had plenty of time to think out things for himself. A pretty compensation!

manual - हाथ का

think out - विचार करना

compensation - मुआवजा, हरजाना, हर्जाना

If that's the stuff revolutionists are made of some of us may well go on their knees to them," she continued in a slightly bantering voice, while the banal society smiles hardened on the worldly faces turned towards her with conventional deference. "The poor creature is obviously no longer in a position to take care of himself. Somebody will have to look after him a little."

bantering - दिल्लगी करना

banal - साधारण

hardened - द्र्ढ बन्ना, पक्का बन्ना

"He should be recommended to follow a treatment of some sort," the soldierly voice of the active-looking man was heard advising earnestly from a distance. He was in the pink of condition for his age, and even the texture of his long frock coat had a character of elastic soundness, as if it were a living tissue. "The man is virtually a cripple," he added with unmistakable feeling.

soldierly - सिपाहियाना

texture - संरचना, बुनावट, प्रकृति

frock coat - फ्रॉक कोट

elastic - मुलायम, लचीला, प्रफुल्ल, लचकदार

soundness - स्वस्थता, समझदारी, मजबूती

virtually - लगभग, यथार्थ में

cripple - अपाहिज करना, लंगड़ा मनुष्य

unmistakable - सुस्पष्ट, असंदिग्ध

Other voices, as if glad of the opening, murmured hasty compassion. "Quite startling," "Monstrous," "most painful to see." The lank man, with the eyeglass on a broad ribbon, pronounced mincingly the word "Grotesque," whose justness was appreciated by those standing near him. They smiled at each other.

hasty - आतुर, अधीर, त्वरित

monstrous - भयानक, अप्राकृतिक, सरासर गलत

most painful - सबसे दर्दनाक

lank - निस्तेज, सीधा और चपटा

mincingly - आश्चर्यजनक रूप से

justness - न्ययोचितता, औचित्य, अपक्षपात

The Assistant Commissioner had expressed no opinion either then or later, his position making it impossible for him to ventilate any independent view of a ticket-of-leave convict. But, in truth, he shared the view of his wife's friend and patron that Michaelis was a humanitarian sentimentalist, a little mad, but upon the whole incapable of hurting a fly intentionally.

ventilate - हवा करना, प्रकाश में लाना

sentimentalist - भावुक व्यक्ति, भावुकतावादी

incapable - अक्षम, अयोग्य, असमर्थ

intentionally - जानबूझा कर, जान बूझ कर, इरादतन

So when that name cropped up suddenly in this vexing bomb affair he realised all the danger of it for the ticket-of-leave apostle, and his mind reverted at once to the old lady's well-established infatuation. Her arbitrary kindness would not brook patiently any interference with Michaelis'freedom. It was a deep, calm, convinced infatuation.

realised - संपादित, सिद्ध

reverted - वापस आना, फिर लौट आना

arbitrary - यादृच्छिक

kindness - दया, मेहरबानी, दयालुता

brook - छोटी नदी

patiently - धैर्यपूर्वक

interference - बाधा, हस्तक्षेप, व्यतिकरण, पंगा

She had not only felt him to be inoffensive, but she had said so, which last by a confusion of her absolutist mind became a sort of incontrovertible demonstration. It was as if the monstrosity of the man, with his candid infant's eyes and a fat angelic smile, had fascinated her. She had come to believe almost his theory of the future, since it was not repugnant to her prejudices.

absolutist - परम तत्ववादी, निरंकुश

incontrovertible - अविवाद्य

monstrosity - अतिविरूपता, भीमकाय प्राणि

infant - शिशु

fascinated - मंत्र मुग्ध करना

repugnant - घिनौना, घृणास्पद, विरुद्ध

She disliked the new element of plutocracy in the social compound, and industrialism as a method of human development appeared to her singularly repulsive in its mechanical and unfeeling character. The humanitarian hopes of the mild Michaelis tended not towards utter destruction, but merely towards the complete economic ruin of the system.

plutocracy - धन-तंत्र, प्लूटोक्रेसी

industrialism - उद्योगवाद

singularly - एकदम ही, विशिष्ट रूप से

repulsive - विकर्षण, घिनौना, डरावना

unfeeling - भावनाशून्य, निष्ठुर, निर्मोही

And she did not really see where was the moral harm of it. It would do away with all the multitude of the "parvenus," whom she disliked and mistrusted, not because they had arrived anywhere (she denied that), but because of their profound unintelligence of the world, which was the primary cause of the crudity of their perceptions and the aridity of their hearts.

parvenus - नौदौलत

mistrusted - अविश्वास, अविश्वास करना

unintelligence - अनबुद्धि

crudity - अशिष्टता, अपरिष्कृतता, असभ्यताआ

aridity - सूखा

With the annihilation of all capital they would vanish too; but universal ruin (providing it was universal, as it was revealed to Michaelis) would leave the social values untouched. The disappearance of the last piece of money could not affect people of position. She could not conceive how it could affect her position, for instance.

annihilation - विनाश, विध्वंस/नाश

untouched - अक्षत, अनछुआ, अप्रभावित, अछूता

disappearance - ओझल

people of position - स्थान के लोग

conceive - कल्पना करना, अनुमान होना

She had developed these discoveries to the Assistant Commissioner with all the serene fearlessness of an old woman who had escaped the blight of indifference. He had made for himself the rule to receive everything of that sort in a silence which he took care from policy and inclination not to make offensive.

fearlessness - निर्भयता, निडरता

blight - विनाश करना, अभिशाप

He had an affection for the aged disciple of Michaelis, a complex sentiment depending a little on her prestige, on her personality, but most of all on the instinct of flattered gratitude. He felt himself really liked in her house. She was kindness personified. And she was practically wise too, after the manner of experienced women.

disciple - अनुयाय, शिष्य, अनुयायी/शिष्य

flattered - चापलूसी करना, रौशन होना[करना]

personified - मूर्त रूप होना

She made his married life much easier than it would have been without her generously full recognition of his rights as Annie's husband. Her influence upon his wife, a woman devoured by all sorts of small selfishnesses, small envies, small jealousies, was excellent. Unfortunately, both her kindness and her wisdom were of unreasonable complexion, distinctly feminine, and difficult to deal with.

generously - उदारतापूर्वक

devoured - नष्ट करना, खा जाना

selfishnesses - स्वार्थ, स्वार्थपरता

envies - ईर्ष्या, ईर्ष्या करना, जलन

jealousies - ईर्ष्या, ईर्ष्या/जलन, जलन, डाह

unreasonable - अविवेकपूर्ण, असंगत, अनुचित

She remained a perfect woman all along her full tale of years, and not as some of them do become-a sort of slippery, pestilential old man in petticoats.

slippery - रपटीला, फिसलाऊ

pestilential - परेशान करनेवाला, रोगजनक/घातक

petticoats - पेटीकोट, साया

And it was as of a woman that he thought of her-the specially choice incarnation of the feminine, wherein is recruited the tender, ingenuous, and fierce bodyguard for all sorts of men who talk under the influence of an emotion, true or fraudulent; for preachers, seers, prophets, or reformers.

wherein - जिसमें

ingenuous - सच्चा, निष्पाप

bodyguard - अंगरक्षक, बॉडीगार्ड

preachers - धर्मोपदेशक

seers - ऋषि, भविष्यद्रष्टा

Appreciating the distinguished and good friend of his wife, and himself, in that way, the Assistant Commissioner became alarmed at the convict Michaelis'possible fate. Once arrested on suspicion of being in some way, however remote, a party to this outrage, the man could hardly escape being sent back to finish his sentence at least. And that would kill him; he would never come out alive.

The Assistant Commissioner made a reflection extremely unbecoming his official position without being really creditable to his humanity.

reflection - परावर्तन, प्रतिबिंब

unbecoming - अनुपयुक्त, अशोभनीय

creditable - अच्छा, प्रशंसायोग्य, प्रशंसनीय

"If the fellow is laid hold of again," he thought, "she will never forgive me."

The frankness of such a secretly outspoken thought could not go without some derisive self-criticism. No man engaged in a work he does not like can preserve many saving illusions about himself. The distaste, the absence of glamour, extend from the occupation to the personality.

frankness - स्पष्टवादिता, मुँहफ़टपना

distaste - अरुचि

glamour - चकाचौंध/आकर्षण, तड़क भड़क

It is only when our appointed activities seem by a lucky accident to obey the particular earnestness of our temperament that we can taste the comfort of complete self-deception. The Assistant Commissioner did not like his work at home.

appointed - बनाना, नियुक्त करना

earnestness - गंभीरता, ईमानदारी

deception - धोखा, छल

The police work he had been engaged on in a distant part of the globe had the saving character of an irregular sort of warfare or at least the risk and excitement of open-air sport. His real abilities, which were mainly of an administrative order, were combined with an adventurous disposition.

administrative - प्रशासकीय, प्रशासनीय, प्रशासनिक

adventurous - साहसिक, उत्साही, जोखिम भरा

Chained to a desk in the thick of four millions of men, he considered himself the victim of an ironic fate-the same, no doubt, which had brought about his marriage with a woman exceptionally sensitive in the matter of colonial climate, besides other limitations testifying to the delicacy of her nature-and her tastes.

ironic - व्यंग्यात्मक, व्यंग्यपूर्ण

exceptionally - अपवादात्मक रूप से

testifying - सिद्ध करना

delicacy - कौशल, बारीकी, कोमलता

Though he judged his alarm sardonically he did not dismiss the improper thought from his mind. The instinct of self-preservation was strong within him. On the contrary, he repeated it mentally with profane emphasis and a fuller precision: "Damn it! If that infernal Heat has his way the fellow'll die in prison smothered in his fat, and she'll never forgive me."

sardonically - उप्हासपूर्ण ढंग से

profane - दूषित करना, सांसारिक

infernal - खिझाने वाला, नारकीय

smothered - रोकना, दबाना

His black, narrow figure, with the white band of the collar under the silvery gleams on the close-cropped hair at the back of the head, remained motionless. The silence had lasted such a long time that Chief Inspector Heat ventured to clear his throat. This noise produced its effect. The zealous and intelligent officer was asked by his superior, whose back remained turned to him immovably:

silvery - चाँदी के सदृश, सुमधुर

"You connect Michaelis with this affair?"

Chief Inspector Heat was very positive, but cautious.

"Well, sir," he said, "we have enough to go upon. A man like that has no business to be at large, anyhow."

"You will want some conclusive evidence," came the observation in a murmur.

Chief Inspector Heat raised his eyebrows at the black, narrow back, which remained obstinately presented to his intelligence and his zeal.

obstinately - हठपूर्वक

zeal - उत्सुकता, जोश, औत्सुक्य, उत्साह

"There will be no difficulty in getting up sufficient evidence against him," he said, with virtuous complacency. "You may trust me for that, sir," he added, quite unnecessarily, out of the fulness of his heart; for it seemed to him an excellent thing to have that man in hand to be thrown down to the public should it think fit to roar with any special indignation in this case.

unnecessarily - व्यर्थ में, अनावश्यक रूप से

fulness - पूर्णता

It was impossible to say yet whether it would roar or not. That in the last instance depended, of course, on the newspaper press. But in any case, Chief Inspector Heat, purveyor of prisons by trade, and a man of legal instincts, did logically believe that incarceration was the proper fate for every declared enemy of the law. In the strength of that conviction he committed a fault of tact.

purveyor - आपूर्तिकर्ता

incarceration - कैद

He allowed himself a little conceited laugh, and repeated:

conceited - घमण्ड, हास्योक्ति, गुमान

"Trust me for that, sir."

This was too much for the forced calmness under which the Assistant Commissioner had for upwards of eighteen months concealed his irritation with the system and the subordinates of his office.

calmness - the state of being calm, tranquillity, silence

concealed - छिपाना

irritation - गुस्सा, उत्तेजना, कोप, संताप

A square peg forced into a round hole, he had felt like a daily outrage that long established smooth roundness into which a man of less sharply angular shape would have fitted himself, with voluptuous acquiescence, after a shrug or two. What he resented most was just the necessity of taking so much on trust.

peg - दर्शाना, स्थिर रखना, खूँटा

voluptuous - आकर्षक, भारी वक्ष स्थल वाली

acquiescence - सहमति, प्रसन्नता पूर्वक अंगीकार

resented - पसंद न करना, बुरा मानना

At the little laugh of Chief Inspector Heat's he spun swiftly on his heels, as if whirled away from the window-pane by an electric shock.

spun - घुमाना, घुमाव, चक्कर, घुमना

electric shock - विद्युतीकरण

He caught on the latter's face not only the complacency proper to the occasion lurking under the moustache, but the vestiges of experimental watchfulness in the round eyes, which had been, no doubt, fastened on his back, and now met his glance for a second before the intent character of their stare had the time to change to a merely startled appearance.

lurking - प्रच्छन्न, (lurk)

vestiges - अवशेष, मार्ग, पदांक, रास्ता

experimental - प्रायोगिक

The Assistant Commissioner of Police had really some qualifications for his post. Suddenly his suspicion was awakened. It is but fair to say that his suspicions of the police methods (unless the police happened to be a semi-military body organised by himself) was not difficult to arouse.

suspicions - खटका, अविश्वास, पुट, शक, संदेह

arouse - उत्तेजित करना, उत्तेजित, जगाना

If it ever slumbered from sheer weariness, it was but lightly; and his appreciation of Chief Inspector Heat's zeal and ability, moderate in itself, excluded all notion of moral confidence. "He's up to something," he exclaimed mentally, and at once became angry. Crossing over to his desk with headlong strides, he sat down violently.

slumbered - सोना, अल्पनिद्रा, नींद

weariness - थकान, थकावट

became angry - गुस्सा हुआ

headlong - सिर के बल, अन्धाधुन्ध

strides - प्रगति, लम्बे डग भरना

"Here I am stuck in a litter of paper," he reflected, with unreasonable resentment, "supposed to hold all the threads in my hands, and yet I can but hold what is put in my hand, and nothing else. And they can fasten the other ends of the threads where they please."

threads - निकालना

He raised his head, and turned towards his subordinate a long, meagre face with the accentuated features of an energetic Don Quixote.

meagre - कम, दुबला

Quixote - क्विक्सोट

"Now what is it you've got up your sleeve?"

The other stared. He stared without winking in a perfect immobility of his round eyes, as he was used to stare at the various members of the criminal class when, after being duly cautioned, they made their statements in the tones of injured innocence, or false simplicity, or sullen resignation.

duly - यथावत्, यथासमय, उचित रीति से

cautioned - सावधान करना, चेतावनी देना

sullen - बदमिजाज़, घिरा हुआ, खिन्न

But behind that professional and stony fixity there was some surprise too, for in such a tone, combining nicely the note of contempt and impatience, Chief Inspector Heat, the right-hand man of the department, was not used to be addressed. He began in a procrastinating manner, like a man taken unawares by a new and unexpected experience.

nicely - संतोषप्रद, अच्छी तरह से

procrastinating - विलंबअना, टालना, देर लगाअना

"What I've got against that man Michaelis you mean, sir?"

The Assistant Commissioner watched the bullet head; the points of that Norse rover's moustache, falling below the line of the heavy jaw; the whole full and pale physiognomy, whose determined character was marred by too much flesh; at the cunning wrinkles radiating from the outer corners of the eyes-and in that purposeful contemplation of the valuable and trusted officer he drew a conviction so sudden that it moved him like an inspiration.

Norse - of Scandinavia/Norway

Rover - घूमने वाला, घुमक्कड़

jaw - जबड़ा

marred - दूषित करना, बिगाड़ देना, बिगाड़ना

cunning - चालाक

wrinkles - सिकोड़ना, छोटी मोटी समस्या

radiating - निकलना, बिखेरना, चमकना

"I have reason to think that when you came into this room," he said in measured tones, "it was not Michaelis who was in your mind; not principally-perhaps not at all."

principally - मुख्य रूप से, मुख्यतया

"You have reason to think, sir?" muttered Chief Inspector Heat, with every appearance of astonishment, which up to a certain point was genuine enough.

He had discovered in this affair a delicate and perplexing side, forcing upon the discoverer a certain amount of insincerity-that sort of insincerity which, under the names of skill, prudence, discretion, turns up at one point or another in most human affairs.

Discoverer - खोजकर्ता

insincerity - बेईमानी

prudence - समझदारी, सावधानी, बुद्धिमानी

most human - सबसे मानवीय

He felt at the moment like a tight-rope artist might feel if suddenly, in the middle of the performance, the manager of the Music Hall were to rush out of the proper managerial seclusion and begin to shake the rope.

managerial - प्रबंधकीय

seclusion - एकांत, एकांतता

Indignation, the sense of moral insecurity engendered by such a treacherous proceeding joined to the immediate apprehension of a broken neck, would, in the colloquial phrase, put him in a state.

insecurity - असुरक्षा, असुरक्षा की भावना

engendered - जन्म देना, उत्पन्न करना

treacherous - कपटी, विश्वासघाती, दुष्ट

broken neck - टूटी गर्दन

colloquial - बोलचाल का, बोलचाल संबंधी

And there would be also some scandalised concern for his art too, since a man must identify himself with something more tangible than his own personality, and establish his pride somewhere, either in his social position, or in the quality of the work he is obliged to do, or simply in the superiority of the idleness he may be fortunate enough to enjoy.

scandalised - नाराज़ होना, नाराज़ होना

tangible - वास्तविक, मूर्त

obliged - नैतिक नियमों से मज़बूर करना

be fortunate - भाग्यशाली होना

"Yes," said the Assistant Commissioner; "I have. I do not mean to say that you have not thought of Michaelis at all. But you are giving the fact you've mentioned a prominence which strikes me as not quite candid, Inspector Heat. If that is really the track of discovery, why haven't you followed it up at once, either personally or by sending one of your men to that village?"

prominence - उभार, प्रख्याति, प्रमुखता

"Do you think, sir, I have failed in my duty there?" the Chief Inspector asked, in a tone which he sought to make simply reflective. Forced unexpectedly to concentrate his faculties upon the task of preserving his balance, he had seized upon that point, and exposed himself to a rebuke; for, the Assistant Commissioner frowning slightly, observed that this was a very improper remark to make.

reflective - विचारमग्न, परावर्तक

rebuke - डाँट डपट, फटकारना, फटकार

"But since you've made it," he continued coldly, "I'll tell you that this is not my meaning."

coldly - रुखाई से, बिना उत्साह के

He paused, with a straight glance of his sunken eyes which was a full equivalent of the unspoken termination "and you know it.

unspoken - अनकहा, मूक, अव्यक्त

termination - समाप्ति, समापन, गर्भपात

" The head of the so-called Special Crimes Department debarred by his position from going out of doors personally in quest of secrets locked up in guilty breasts, had a propensity to exercise his considerable gifts for the detection of incriminating truth upon his own subordinates. That peculiar instinct could hardly be called a weakness. It was natural. He was a born detective.

debarred - रोक देना, रोक देना

quest - तलाश

detection - खोज

incriminating - फँसाना, अभियोग लगाना

It had unconsciously governed his choice of a career, and if it ever failed him in life it was perhaps in the one exceptional circumstance of his marriage-which was also natural. It fed, since it could not roam abroad, upon the human material which was brought to it in its official seclusion. We can never cease to be ourselves.

unconsciously - अनजाने में, अनजाने में

fed - भारतीय राष्ट्रीय बैंक को भेजा गया, (feed) भारतीय राष्ट्रीय बैंक को भेजा गया

roam - घूमना

His elbow on the desk, his thin legs crossed, and nursing his cheek in the palm of his meagre hand, the Assistant Commissioner in charge of the Special Crimes branch was getting hold of the case with growing interest. His Chief Inspector, if not an absolutely worthy foeman of his penetration, was at any rate the most worthy of all within his reach.

foeman - शत्रु

penetration - प्रवेश, वेधन, भेदन

A mistrust of established reputations was strictly in character with the Assistant Commissioner's ability as detector.

detector - संसूचक

His memory evoked a certain old fat and wealthy native chief in the distant colony whom it was a tradition for the successive Colonial Governors to trust and make much of as a firm friend and supporter of the order and legality established by white men; whereas, when examined sceptically, he was found out to be principally his own good friend, and nobody else's.

evoked - आह्वान करना, ताज़ा करना

Not precisely a traitor, but still a man of many dangerous reservations in his fidelity, caused by a due regard for his own advantage, comfort, and safety. A fellow of some innocence in his naive duplicity, but none the less dangerous. He took some finding out.

traitor - ग़द्दार, द्रोही, विद्रोही

duplicity - धोखा, कपट, छल कपट, छल, छल/कपट

He was physically a big man, too, and (allowing for the difference of colour, of course) Chief Inspector Heat's appearance recalled him to the memory of his superior. It was not the eyes nor yet the lips exactly. It was bizarre.