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I went. I found it a large, handsome residence, showing abundant evidences of wealth in the proprietor.
我去了，發現這是一所寬敞漂亮的住宅，充分顯出主人的富有。
Rosamond was full of glee and pleasure all the time I stayed.
我呆在那里時羅莎蒙德一直非常高興。
Her father was affable; and when he entered into conversation with me after tea,
她父親和藹可親，茶點以后開始同我們交談時，
he expressed in strong terms his approbation of what I had done in Morton school,
用很強烈的字眼，對我在莫爾頓學校所做的，表示十分滿意。
and said he only feared, from what he saw and heard, I was too good for the place, and would soon quit it for one more suitable.
還說就他所見所聞，他擔心我在這個地方大材小用，會很快離去干一項更合適的工作。
"Indeed," cried Rosamond, "she is clever enough to be a governess in a high family, papa."
“真的!”羅莎蒙德嚷道，“她那么聰明，做一個名門家庭的女教師綽綽有余，爸爸。”
I thought I would far rather be where I am than in any high family in the land.
我想——與其到國內哪個名門家庭，遠不如在這里。
Mr. Oliver spoke of Mr. Rivers -- of the Rivers family -- with great respect.
奧利弗先生說起了里弗斯先生——說起了里弗斯的家庭——肅然起敬。
He said it was a very old name in that neighbourhood; that the ancestors of the house were wealthy;
他說在附近地區，這是一個古老的名字，這家的祖宗都很有錢，
that all Morton had once belonged to them;
整個莫爾頓一度屬于他們。
that even now he considered the representative of that house might,if he liked, make an alliance with the best.
甚至現在，他認為這家的代表要是樂意，滿可以同最好的家庭聯姻。
He accounted it a pity that so fine and talented a young man should have formed the design of going out as a missionary;
他覺得這么好、這么有才能的一個年青人竟然決定出家當傳教士，實在可惜。
it was quite throwing a valuable life away.
那等于拋棄了一種很有價值的生活。
It appeared, then, that her father would throw no obstacle in the way of Rosamond's union with St. John.
那么看來羅莎蒙德的父親不會在她與圣·約翰結合的道路上設置任何障礙。
Mr. Oliver evidently regarded the young clergyman's good birth, old name, and sacred profession as sufficient compensation for the want of fortune.
奧利弗先生顯然認為青年牧師的良好出身、古老的名字和神圣的職業是對他缺乏家財的足夠補償。
