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"Yes, sir; for hours if you will."
“是的，先生。聽你幾小時都行。”
"I ask only minutes. Jane, did you ever hear or know at I was not the eldest son of my house:
“我只要求幾分鐘。簡，你是否聽到過，或者知道我在家里不是老大，
that I had once a brother older than I?"
我還有一個年齡比我大的哥哥？”
"I remember Mrs. Fairfax told me so once."
“我記得費(fèi)爾法克斯太太有一次告訴過我。”
"And did you ever hear that my father was an avaricious, grasping man?"
“你聽說過我的父親是個貪得無厭的人嗎？”
"I have understood something to that effect."
“我大致了解一些。”
"Well, Jane, being so, it was his resolution to keep the property together;
“好吧，簡，出于貪婪，我父親決心把他的財(cái)產(chǎn)合在一起，
he could not bear the idea of dividing his estate and leaving me a fair portion:
而不能容忍把它分割，留給我相當(dāng)一部分。
all, he resolved, should go to my brother, Rowland.
他決定一切都?xì)w我哥哥羅蘭，
Yet as little could he endure that a son of his should be a poor man.
然而也不忍心一個兒子成為窮光蛋。
I must be provided for by a wealthy marriage. He sought me a partner betimes.
他還得通過一樁富有的婚事解決我的生計(jì)。不久他替我找了個伴侶。
Mr. Mason, a West India planter and merchant, was his old acquaintance.
他有一個叫梅森先生的老相識，是西印度的種植園主和商人。
He was certain his possessions were real and vast: he made inquiries.
他做了調(diào)查，肯定梅森先生家業(yè)殷實(shí)巨大。
Mr. Mason, he found, had a son and daughter;
他發(fā)現(xiàn)梅森先生有一雙兒女，
and he learned from him that he could and would give the latter a fortune of thirty thousand pounds: that sufficed.
還知道梅森先生能夠，也愿意給他的女兒三萬英鎊的財(cái)產(chǎn)，那已經(jīng)足夠了。
