It was painful, exceedingly painful, to know that they were under obligations to a person who could never receive a return. They owed the restoration of Lydia, her character, every thing, to him. Oh! how heartily did she grieve over every ungracious sensation she had ever encouraged, every saucy speech she had ever directed towards him. For herself she was humbled; but she was proud of him. Proud that in a cause of compassion and honour, he had been able to get the better of himself. She read over her aunt's commendation of him again and again. It was hardly enough; but it pleased her. She was even sensible of some pleasure, though mixed with regret, on finding how steadfastly both she and her uncle had been persuaded that affection and confidence subsisted between Mr. Darcy and herself.
一想起这样一个人对她们情意隆重,而她们却无法报答他,这真是痛苦,说不尽的痛苦。丽迪雅能够回来,能够保全了人格,这一切都得归功于他。她一想起自己以前竟会那样厌恶他,竟会对他那样出言唐突,真是万分伤心!她不胜自愧,同时又为他感到骄傲。骄傲的是,他竟会一本同情之心,崇尚义气,委曲求全。于是她把舅母信上恭维他的那段话读了又读,只觉还嫌说得不够,可是也足以叫她十分高兴。她发觉舅父母都断定她跟达西先生感情深切,推心置腹。她虽然不免因此而感到几分懊恼,却也颇为得意。
She was roused from her seat, and her reflections, by some one's approach; and before she could strike into another path, she was overtaken by Wickham.
这时已经有人走近前来,打断了她的深思,使她从座位上站起来;她刚要从另一条小径过去,只见韦翰却赶了上来。
"I am afraid I interrupt your solitary ramble, my dear sister?" said he, as he joined her.
他走到她身边说道:“我怕打扰了你清静的散步吧,亲爱的姐姐。”
"You certainly do," she replied with a smile; "but it does not follow that the interruption must be unwelcome."
她笑着回答道:“的确是这样,不过,打扰未必就不受欢迎。”
"I should be sorry indeed, if it were. We were always good friends; and now we are better."
“要是这样,我真过意不去。我们一向是好朋友,现在更加亲近了。”
"True. Are the others coming out?"
“你说得是。他们都出来了吗?”
"I do not know. Mrs. Bennet and Lydia are going in the carriage to Meryton. And so, my dear sister, I find, from our uncle and aunt, that you have actually seen Pemberley."
“不知道。妈妈和丽迪雅乘着马车到麦里屯去了。亲爱的姐姐,听舅父母说起,你当真到彭伯里去玩过了。”
She replied in the affirmative.
她说,当真去过了。