It was absolutely necessary to interrupt him now.
"You are too hasty, Sir," she cried. "You forget that I have made no answer. Let me do it without farther loss of time. Accept my thanks for the compliment you are paying me, I am very sensible of the honour of your proposals, but it is impossible for me to do otherwise than decline them."
"I am not now to learn," replied Mr. Collins, with a formal wave of the hand, "that it is usual with young ladies to reject the addresses of the man whom they secretly mean to accept, when he first applies for their favour; and that sometimes the refusal is repeated a second or even a third time. I am therefore by no means discouraged by what you have just said, and shall hope to lead you to the altar ere long."
现在可非打断他的话不可了。
“你太心急了吧,先生,”她叫了起来。“你忘了我根本没有回答你呢。别再浪费时间,就让我来回答你吧。谢谢你的夸奖。你的求婚使我感到荣幸,可惜我除了谢绝之外,别无办法。”
柯林斯先生郑重其事地挥手回答道:“年轻的姑娘们遇到人家第一次未婚,即使心里愿意答应,口头上总是拒绝;有时候甚至会拒绝两次三次。这样看来,你刚才所说的话决不会叫我灰心,我希望不久就能领你到神坛跟前去呢。”
"Upon my word, Sir," cried Elizabeth, "your hope is rather an extraordinary one after my declaration. I do assure you that I am not one of those young ladies (if such young ladies there are) who are so daring as to risk their happiness on the chance of being asked a second time. I am perfectly serious in my refusal. -- You could not make me happy, and I am convinced that I am the last woman in the world who would make you so, -- Nay, were your friend Lady Catherine to know me, I am persuaded she would find me in every respect ill qualified for the situation."
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