“亲爱的表妹,请允许我说句自不量力的话:我相信你拒绝我的求婚,不过是照例说说罢了。我所以会这样想,简单说来,有这样几点理由:我觉得我向你求婚,并不见得就不值得你接受,我的家产你决不会不放在眼里。我的社会地位,我同德·包尔府上的关系,以及跟你府上的亲戚关系,都是我非常优越的条件。我得提请你考虑一下:尽管你有许多吸引人的地方,不幸你的财产太少,这就把你的可爱、把你许多优美的条件都抵消了,不会有另外一个人再向你求婚了,因此我就不得不认为:你这一次并不是一本正经地拒绝我,而是彷效一般高贵的女性的通例,欲擒故纵,想要更加博得我的喜爱。”
"I do assure you, Sir, that I have no pretension whatever to that kind of elegance which consists in tormenting a respectable man. I would rather be paid the compliment of being believed sincere. I thank you again and again for the honour you have done me in your proposals, but to accept them is absolutely impossible. My feelings in every respect forbid it. Can I speak plainer? Do not consider me now as an elegant female intending to plague you, but as a rational creature speaking the truth from her heart."
"You are uniformly charming!" cried he, with an air of awkward gallantry; "and I am persuaded that when sanctioned by the express authority of both your excellent parents, my proposals will not fail of being acceptable."
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