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发信人: xunhuan (集香自焚,浴火重生), 信区: foreign_lg
标 题: pride and prejudice 12
发信站: 听涛站 (2001年06月01日08:22:41 星期五), 站内信件
IN consequence of an agreement between the sisters, Elizabeth wrote
the next morning to her mother, to beg that the carriage might be sent
for them in the course of the day. But Mrs. Bennet, who had calculated
on her daughters remaining at Netherfield till the following Tuesday,
which would exactly finish Jane's week, could not bring herself to
receive hem with pleasure before. Her answer, therefore, was not
propitious, at least not to Elizabeth's wishes, for she was impatient to
get home. Mrs. Bennet sent them word that they could not possibly
have the carriage before Tuesday; and in her postscript it was added
that, if Mr. Bingley and his sister pressed them to stay longer, she
could spare them very well. -- Against staying longer, however,
Elizabeth was positively resolved -- nor did she much expect it would be
asked; and fearful, on the contrary, as being considered as intruding
themselves needlessly long, she urged Jane to borrow Mr. Bingley's
carriage immediately, and at length it was settled that their original
design of leaving Netherfield that morning should be mentioned, and
the request made.
The communication excited many professions of concern; and enough was
said of wishing them to stay at least till the following day, to work on
Jane; and till the morrow their going was deferred. Miss Bingley was
then sorry that she had proposed the delay, for her jealousy and dislike
of one sister much exceeded her affection for the other.
The master of the house heard with real sorrow that they were to go
so soon, and repeatedly tried to persuade Miss Bennet that it would
not be safe for her -- that she was not enough recovered; but Jane was
firm where she felt herself to be right.
To Mr. Darcy it was welcome intelligence -- Elizabeth had been at
Netherfield long enough. She attracted him more than he liked -- and
Miss Bingley was uncivil to her, and more teazing than usual to himself.
He wisely resolved to be particularly careful that no sign of
admiration should now escape him, nothing that could elevate her with
the hope of influencing his felicity; sensible that if such an idea
had been suggested, his behaviour during the last day must have material
weight in confirming or crushing it. Steady to his purpose, he scarcely
spoke ten words to her through the whole of Saturday, and though they
were at one time left by themselves for half an hour, he adhered most
conscientiously to his book, and would not even look at her.
On Sunday, after morning service, the separation, so agreeable to
almost all, took place. Miss Bingley's civility to Elizabeth increased
at last very rapidly, as well as her affection for Jane; and when they
parted, after assuring the latter of the pleasure it would always give
her to see her either at Longbourn or Netherfield, and embracing her
most tenderly, she even shook hands with the former. -- Elizabeth took
leave of the whole party in the liveliest spirits.
They were not welcomed home very cordially by their mother. Mrs. Bennet
wondered at their coming, and thought them very wrong to give so much
trouble, and was sure Jane would have caught cold again. -- But their
father, though very laconic in his expressions of pleasure, was really
glad to see them; he had felt their importance in the family circle. The
evening conversation, when they were all assembled, had lost much of
its animation, and almost all its sense, by the absence of Jane and
Elizabeth.
They found Mary, as usual, deep in the study of thorough bass and human
nature; and had some new extracts to admire, and some new
observations of thread-bare morality to listen to. Catherine and Lydia
had information for them of a different sort. Much had been done and
much had been said in the regiment since the preceding Wednesday;
several of the officers had dined lately with their uncle, a private had
been flogged, and it had actually been hinted that Colonel Forster
was going to be married.
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蓦然发现:
生命竟也是一种绚烂。
天行健,君子以自强不息;
地势坤,君子以厚德载物。
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