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Her sister, however, assured her of her being perfectly well; and their conversation, which had been passing while Mr. and Mrs. Gardiner were engaged with their children, was now put an end to by the approach of the whole party. Jane ran to her uncle and aunt, and welcomed and thanked them both, with alternate smiles ad tears.
姐姐告訴她完好無恙。姐妹倆趁著嘉丁納夫婦忙于應付孩子們的時候，剛剛談了這幾句話，只見他們一大群男女老幼都走過來了，于是談話只得終止。吉英走到舅父母跟前去表示歡迎和感謝，笑一陣又哭一陣。
When they were all in the drawing-room, the questions which Elizabeth had already asked were of course repeated by the others, and they soon found that Jane had no intelligence to give. The sanguine hope of good,however, which the benevolence of her heart suggested had not yet deserted her; she still expected that it would all end well, and that every morning would bring some letter, either from Lydia or her father, to explain their proceedings, and, perhaps, announce their marriage.
大家都走進會客室以后，舅父母又把伊麗莎白剛才問過的那些話重新問了一遍，立刻就發覺吉英沒有什么消息可以奉告。吉英因為心腸慈善，總是從樂觀的方面去著想，即使事到如今，她還沒有心灰意冷，她還在指望著一切都會有圓滿的結局；總有哪一天早上她會收到一封信，或者是父親寫來的，或者是麗迪雅寫來的，信上會把事情進行的經過詳細報道一番，或許還會宣布那一對男女的結婚消息。
Mrs. Bennet, to whose apartment they all repaired, after a few minutes' conversation together, received them exactly as might be expected; with tears and lamentations of regret, invectives against the villainous conduct of Wickham, and complaints of her own sufferings and ill-usage; blaming everybody but the person to whose ill-judging indulgence the errors of her daughter must principally be owing.
大家談了一會兒以后，都到班納特太太房里去了。果然不出所料，班納特太太見到他們便眼淚汪汪，長吁短嘆。她先把韋翰的卑劣行為痛罵了一頓，又為自己的病痛和委屈抱怨了一番，她幾乎把每個人都罵到了，只有一個人沒罵到，而那個人卻正是盲目溺愛女兒，使女兒鑄成大錯的主要原因。
"If I had been able, " said she, "to carry my point in going to Brighton, with all my family, THIS would not have happened; but poor dear Lydia had nobody to take care of her. Why did the Forsters ever let her go out of their sight? I am sure there was some great neglect or other on their side, for she is not the kind of girl to do such a thing if she had been well looked after. I always thought they were very unfit to have the charge of her; but I was overruled, as I always am. Poor dear child! And now here's Mr. Bennet gone away, and I know he will fight Wickham, wherever he meets him and then he will be killed, and what is to become of us all? The Collinses will turn us out before he is cold in his grave, and if you are not kind to us, brother, I do not know what we shall do. "
她說：“要是當初能夠依了我的打算，讓全家人都跟著到白利屯去，那就不會發生這種事了。麗迪雅真是又可憐又可愛。毛病就出在沒有人照應。弗斯脫太太怎么竟放心讓她離開他們跟前呢？我看，一定是他們太怠慢了她。象她那樣一個姑娘，要是有人好好地照料她，她是決不會做出那種事來的。我一直覺得他們不配照管她；可是我一直要受人家擺布。可憐的好孩子呀！班納特先生已經走了，他一碰到韋翰，一定會跟他拚個死活，他一定會給韋翰活活打死，那叫我們大家可怎么辦？他尸骨未寒，柯林斯一家人就要把我們攆出去；兄弟呀，要是你不幫幫我們的忙，我就真不知道怎么是好啦。”
