他向父亲许诺的时候,心里就在盘算,想给他妹妹每人再补贴一千镑的收入。当时,他确实觉得这是他力所能及的。他除了目前的收入和母亲另—半遗产以外,还可望每年再添四千镑。一想到这里,心里不禁热乎乎的,他认为自己可以慷慨一点。“是的,我可以给她们三千镑,这多么慷慨大方啊:可以确保她们安安生生地过日子啦。三千镑呀,我可以毫不费劲地省出这么一笔巨款。他整天这么想着,接连想了好多天,一点也没反悔。
No sooner was his father's funeral over, than Mrs. John Dashwood, without sending any notice of her intention to her mother-in-law, arrived with her child and theirattendants. No one could dispute her right to come; the house was her husband's from the moment of his father'sdecease; but theindelicacyof her conduct was so much the greater, and to a woman in Mrs. Dashwood's situation, with only common feelings, must have been highly unpleasing;-- but in HER mind there was a sense of honor so keen, a generosity so romantic, that any offence of the kind, by whomsoever given or received, was to her a source of immoveable disgust. Mrs. John Dashwood had never been a favourite with any of her husband's family; but she had had no opportunity, till the present, of shewing them with how little attention to the comfort of other people she could act when occasion required it.
父亲的丧事刚办完,约翰.达什伍德夫人也不打个招呼,就带着孩子、仆人来到婆婆家里。谁也无法怀疑她有权来这里,因为从她公公死去的时刻起,这房子就属于她丈夫的了。不过,她的行为实在太不文雅,按照人之常情,任何一个女人处在达什伍德太太当婆母的位置上,都会感到很不愉快。何况,达什伍德太太是个自尊心很强、慷慨大方、落拓不羁的女入,对这种唐突无礼的事情,无论是谁干的或者对谁干的,她都会感到深恶痛绝。约翰.达什伍德夫人在婆家从未受过任何人的喜爱,可是直到今天她才有机会向她们摆明:在必要时,她为人行事可以全然不顾别入的痛痒。
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