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It was not only bare; it was ploughed and harrowed, as if some giant agricultural rig had gone over it and made it ready for new seed. The soil, I realized, had been loosened by the uprooting of its mat of vegetation. In all that ground, I knew, no single root existed, no fragment of a root, down to the finest rootlet. The land had been swept clean of everything that grew and all that once had grown here was now a part of that fantastic windrow that was being swept along before the barrier.
Я сошел с асфальтовой полосы на обочину, опустился на колени и погрузил пальцы в обнаженную почву.
Above me a dull rumble of thunder rippled in the sky and rolled along the air. I glanced backward over my shoulder, and saw that the thunderstorm which had been threatening all morning now was close upon us, but it was a ragged storm, with wind-twisted clouds, broken and fragmented, fleeing through the upper emptiness.
“Nancy,” I said, but she did not answer.
В небе глухо зарокотал гром. Я огляделся: гроза, что собиралась с самого утра, надвинулась вплотную, но тучи не сплошь затянули небо, а неслись в вышине клоками, обрывками, их словно кружило вихрем.
— Нэнси, — позвал я.
Никакого ответа.
I got quickly to my feet and swung around. She had been right behind me when I'd started through the traffic tangle, but now there was no sign of her.
I started back down the road to find her and as I did a blue sedan that was over on the opposite shoulder rolled off down the shoulder and swung out on the pavement—and there, behind the wheel, was Nancy.
Я вскочил, оглянулся. Когда я начал выбираться из скопления застрявших машин, она шла следом, а теперь ее нигде не видно!
Я зашагал по шоссе назад — надо же ее найти! — и тут с противоположной обочины скользнул на шоссе голубой седан, за рулем сидела Нэнси.