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Darcy was fixed in astonishment. "When I consider,'' she added, in a yet more agitated voice, "that I might have prevented it! -- I who knew what he was. Had I but explained some part of it only -- some part of what I learnt -- to my own family! Had his character been known, this could not have happened. But it is all, all too late now.''
達西給嚇呆了。伊麗莎白又用一種更激動的聲調接下去說：“我本來是可以阻止這一件事的！我知道他的真面目！我只要把那件事的一部分……我所聽到的一部分，早講給家里人聽就好了，要是大家都知道了他的品格，就不會出這一場亂子了，但現在事已太遲。”
I am grieved, indeed,'' cried Darcy; "grieved -- shocked. But is it certain, absolutely certain?''
達西叫道：“我真痛心，又痛心又驚嚇。但是這消息靠得住嗎，完全靠得住嗎？”
"Oh yes! -- They left Brighton together on Sunday night, and were traced almost to London, but not beyond; they are certainly not gone to Scotland.''
“當然靠得住！他們是星期日晚上從白利屯出奔的，人家追他們一直追到倫敦，可是無法再追下去。他們一定沒有去蘇格蘭。”
"And what has been done, what has been attempted, to recover her?''
“那么，有沒有想什么辦法去找她呢？”
"My father is gone to London, and Jane has written to beg my uncle's immediate assistance, and we shall be off, I hope, in half an hour. But nothing can be done; I know very well that nothing can be done. How is such a man to be worked on? How are they even to be discovered? I have not the smallest hope. It is every way horrible!''
“我父親到倫敦去了，吉英寫信來，要舅父立刻回去幫忙，我希望我們在半個鐘頭之內就能動身。可是事情毫無辦法，我認為一定毫無辦法。這樣的一個人，有什么辦法對付得了？又想得出什么辦法去找他們？我實在不敢存一線的希望。想來想去真可怕。”
Darcy shook his head in silent acquiescence.
達西搖搖頭，表示默認。
"When my eyes were opened to his real character. -- Oh! had I known what I ought, what I dared, to do! But I knew not -- I was afraid of doing too much. Wretched, wretched, mistake!''
“我當初本已看穿了他的人品，只怪我一時缺乏果斷，沒有大著膽子去辦事。我只怕做得太過火，這真是千不該萬不該！”
Darcy made no answer. He seemed scarcely to hear her, and was walking up and down the room in earnest meditation; his brow contracted, his air gloomy. Elizabeth soon observed and instantly understood it. Her power was sinking; every thing must sink under such a proof of family weakness, such an assurance of the deepest disgrace. She should neither wonder nor condemn, but the belief of his self-conquest brought nothing consolatory to her bosom, afforded no palliation of her distress. It was, on the contrary, exactly calculated to make her understand her own wishes; and never had she so honestly felt that she could have loved him, as now, when all love must be vain.
達西沒有回答。他好象完全沒有聽到她的話，只是在房間里踱來踱去，煞費苦心地在深思默想。他雙眉緊蹙，滿臉憂愁。伊麗莎白立刻看到了他這副面容，而且隨即明白了他的心思。她對他的魔力一步步在消退了；家庭這樣不爭氣，招來了這樣的奇恥大辱，自然處處都會惹得人家一天比一天看不起。她絲毫不覺得詫異，也不怪別人。她即使姑且認為他愿意委曲求全，也未必就會感到安慰，未必就會減輕痛苦。這反而足發使她愈加有自知之明。現在千恩萬愛都已落空，她倒第一次感覺到真心真意地愛他。
