傲慢与偏见第一章英文阅读（名著泛读23傲慢与偏见第二十三章）
傲慢与偏见第一章英文阅读（名著泛读23傲慢与偏见第二十三章）Lady Lucas could not be insensible of triumph on being able to retort【反驳】on Mrs. Bennet the comfort of having a daughter well married; and she called at Longbourn rather oftener than usual to say how happy she was though Mrs. Bennet's sour looks and ill-natured【恶毒的】remarks might have been enough to drive happiness away.Jane confessed herself a little surprised at the match; but she said less
《傲慢与偏见》是简·奥斯汀的小说中最出名的一本，也是文学史上很重要的一部作品，阅读它不光可以学习地道的英语，也能积累不少有用的人文知识。简·奥斯汀的小说对初学者而言是比较友好的，她的语言相对朴实，阅读体验很流畅又很贴近生活。全书一共61章，每日一章，计划两个月完成。
Elizabeth was sitting with her mother and sisters reflecting on what she had heard and doubting whether she was authorised to mention it when Sir William Lucas himself appeared sent by his daughter to announce her engagement to the family. With many compliments to them and much self-gratulation on the prospect of a connection between the houses he unfolded the matter—to an audience not merely wondering but incredulous【不肯轻信的】; for Mrs. Bennet with more perseverance than politeness protested he must be entirely mistaken; and Lydia always unguarded【轻率的】and often uncivil boisterously【喧闹活跃的】exclaimed:
"Good Lord! Sir William how can you tell such a story? Do not you know that Mr. Collins wants to marry Lizzy?"
Nothing less than the complaisance of a courtier could have borne without anger such treatment; but Sir William's good breeding carried him through it all; and though he begged leave to be positive as to the truth of his information he listened to all their impertinence【无礼的举动或言语】with the most forbearing【忍耐的】courtesy.
Elizabeth feeling it incumbent on【为某人义不容辞的】her to relieve him from so unpleasant a situation now put herself forward to confirm his account by mentioning her prior knowledge of it from Charlotte herself; and endeavoured to put a stop to the exclamations of her mother and sisters by the earnestness of her congratulations to Sir William in which she was readily joined by Jane and by making a variety of remarks on the happiness that might be expected from the match the excellent character of Mr. Collins and the convenient distance of Hunsford from London.
Mrs. Bennet was in fact too much overpowered to say a great deal while Sir William remained; but no sooner had he left them than her feelings found a rapid vent【出口】. In the first place she persisted in disbelieving the whole of the matter; secondly she was very sure that Mr. Collins had been taken in; thirdly she trusted that they would never be happy together; and fourthly that the match might be broken off. Two inferences【 推论】 however were plainly deduced from the whole: one that Elizabeth was the real cause of the mischief【恶作剧】; and the other that she herself had been barbarously misused by them all; and on these two points she principally dwelt during the rest of the day. Nothing could console and nothing could appease【使息怒】her. Nor did that day wear out her resentment. A week elapsed【悄悄过去；消逝】before she could see Elizabeth without scolding her a month passed away before she could speak to Sir William or Lady Lucas without being rude and many months were gone before she could at all forgive their daughter.
Mr. Bennet's emotions were much more tranquil on the occasion and such as he did experience he pronounced to be of a most agreeable sort; for it gratified him he said to discover that Charlotte Lucas whom he had been used to think tolerably sensible was as foolish as his wife and more foolish than his daughter!
Jane confessed herself a little surprised at the match; but she said less of her astonishment than of her earnest desire for their happiness; nor could Elizabeth persuade her to consider it as improbable【不大可能是真实的】. Kitty and Lydia were far from envying Miss Lucas for Mr. Collins was only a clergyman; and it affected them in no other way than as a piece of news to spread at Meryton.
Lady Lucas could not be insensible of triumph on being able to retort【反驳】on Mrs. Bennet the comfort of having a daughter well married; and she called at Longbourn rather oftener than usual to say how happy she was though Mrs. Bennet's sour looks and ill-natured【恶毒的】remarks might have been enough to drive happiness away.
Between Elizabeth and Charlotte there was a restraint【克制】which kept them mutually silent on the subject; and Elizabeth felt persuaded that no real confidence【信赖】could ever subsist【存在】between them again. Her disappointment in Charlotte made her turn with fonder regard to her sister of whose rectitude【正直】and delicacy she was sure her opinion could never be shaken and for whose happiness she grew daily more anxious as Bingley had now been gone a week and nothing more was heard of his return.
Jane had sent Caroline an early answer to her letter and was counting the days till she might reasonably hope to hear again. The promised letter of thanks from Mr. Collins arrived on Tuesday addressed to their father and written with all the solemnity of gratitude which a twelvemonth's abode in the family might have prompted. After discharging his conscience on that head he proceeded to inform them with many rapturous expressions of his happiness in having obtained the affection of their amiable neighbour Miss Lucas and then explained that it was merely with the view of enjoying her society that he had been so ready to close with their kind wish of seeing him again at Longbourn whither he hoped to be able to return on Monday fortnight; for Lady Catherine he added so heartily approved his marriage that she wished it to take place as soon as possible which he trusted would be an unanswerable argument with his amiable Charlotte to name an early day for making him the happiest of men.
Mr. Collins's return into Hertfordshire was no longer a matter of pleasure to Mrs. Bennet. On the contrary she was as much disposed to complain of it as her husband. It was very strange that he should come to Longbourn instead of to Lucas Lodge; it was also very inconvenient and exceedingly troublesome. She hated having visitors in the house while her health was so indifferent and lovers were of all people the most disagreeable. Such were the gentle murmurs of Mrs. Bennet and they gave way only to the greater distress of Mr. Bingley's continued absence.
Neither Jane nor Elizabeth were comfortable on this subject. Day after day passed away without bringing any other tidings【消息】of him than the report which shortly prevailed【流传】in Meryton of his coming no more to Netherfield the whole winter; a report which highly incensed【激怒】Mrs. Bennet and which she never failed to contradict as a most scandalous falsehood【谎言】.
Even Elizabeth began to fear—not that Bingley was indifferent—but that his sisters would be successful in keeping him away. Unwilling as she was to admit an idea so destructive【破坏性的】of Jane's happiness and so dishonorable to the stability of her lover she could not prevent its frequently occurring. The united efforts of his two unfeeling sisters and of his overpowering friend assisted by the attractions of Miss Darcy and the amusements of London might be too much she feared for the strength of his attachment.
As for Jane her anxiety under this suspense was of course more painful than Elizabeth's but whatever she felt she was desirous of concealing and between herself and Elizabeth therefore the subject was never alluded to【提起】. But as no such delicacy restrained her mother an hour seldom passed in which she did not talk of Bingley express her impatience for his arrival or even require Jane to confess that if he did not come back she would think herself very ill used. It needed all Jane's steady mildness to bear these attacks with tolerable tranquillity.
Mr. Collins returned most punctually on Monday fortnight but his reception at Longbourn was not quite so gracious【亲切的】as it had been on his first introduction. He was too happy however to need much attention; and luckily for the others the business of love-making relieved them from a great deal of his company. The chief of every day was spent by him at Lucas Lodge and he sometimes returned to Longbourn only in time to make an apology for his absence before the family went to bed.
Mrs. Bennet was really in a most pitiable state. The very mention of anything concerning the match threw her into an agony of ill-humour and wherever she went she was sure of hearing it talked of. The sight of Miss Lucas was odious【可憎的】to her. As her successor in that house she regarded her with jealous abhorrence【憎恶】. Whenever Charlotte came to see them she concluded her to be anticipating the hour of possession; and whenever she spoke in a low voice to Mr. Collins was convinced that they were talking of the Longbourn estate and resolving to turn herself and her daughters out of the house as soon as Mr. Bennet were dead. She complained bitterly of all this to her husband.
"Indeed Mr. Bennet " said she "it is very hard to think that Charlotte Lucas should ever be mistress of this house that I should be forced to make way for her and live to see her take her place in it!"
"My dear do not give way to such gloomy thoughts. Let us hope for better things. Let us flatter ourselves that I may be the survivor."
This was not very consoling to Mrs. Bennet and therefore instead of making any answer she went on as before.
"I cannot bear to think that they should have all this estate. If it was not for the entail I should not mind it."
"What should not you mind?"
"I should not mind anything at all."
"Let us be thankful that you are preserved from a state of such insensibility."
"I never can be thankful Mr. Bennet for anything about the entail. How anyone could have the conscience to entail away an estate from one's own daughters I cannot understand; and all for the sake of Mr. Collins too! Why should he have it more than anybody else?"
"I leave it to yourself to determine " said Mr. Bennet.
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