MISS Bingley's letter arrived, and put an end to doubt. The very first sentence conveyed the assurance of their being all settled in London for the winter, and concluded with her brother's regret at not having had time to pay his respects to his friends in Hertfordshire before he left the country.
彬格萊小姐的信來了，疑慮消除了。信上第一句話就說，她們決定在倫敦過冬，結尾是替他哥哥道歉，說他在臨走以前，沒有來得及向哈福郡的朋友們辭行，很覺遺憾。
Hope was over, entirely over; and when Jane could attend to the rest of the letter, she found little, except the professed affection of the writer, that could give her any comfort. Miss Darcy's praise occupied the chief of it. Her many attractions were again dwelt on, and Caroline boasted joyfully of their increasing intimacy, and ventured to predict the accomplishment of the wishes which had been unfolded in her former letter. She wrote also with great pleasure of her brother's being an inmate of Mr. Darcy's house, and mentioned with raptures some plans of the latter with regard to new furniture.
希望破滅了，徹底破滅了。吉英繼續把信讀下去，只覺得除了寫信人那種裝腔作勢的親切之外，就根本找不出可以自慰的地方。滿篇都是贊美達西小姐的話，絮絮叨叨地談到她的千嬌百媚。珈羅琳又高高興興地說，她們倆之間已經一天比一天來得親熱，而且竟大膽地作出預言，說是她上封信里面提到的那些愿望，一定可以實現。她還得意非凡地寫道，她哥哥已經住到達西先生家里去，又歡天喜地地提到達西打算添置新家具。
Elizabeth, to whom Jane very soon communicated the chief of all this, heard it in silent indignation. Her heart was divided between concern for her sister, and resentment against all the others. To Caroline's assertion of her brother's being partial to Miss Darcy she paid no credit. That he was really fond of Jane, she doubted no more than she had ever done; and much as she had always been disposed to like him, she could not think without anger, hardly without contempt, on that easiness of temper, that want of proper resolution which now made him the slave of his designing friends, and led him to sacrifice his own happiness to the caprice of their inclinations. Had his own happiness, however, been the only sacrifice, he might have been allowed to sport with it in what ever manner he thought best; but her sister's was involved in it, as, she thought, he must be sensible himself.
吉英立刻把這些事大都告訴了伊麗莎白，伊麗莎白聽了，怒而不言。她真傷心透了，一方面是關懷自己的姐姐，另方面是怨恨那幫人。珈羅琳信上說她哥哥鐘情于達西小姐，伊麗莎白無論如何也不相信。她仍舊象以往一樣，相信彬格萊先生真正喜歡吉英。伊麗莎白一向很看重他，現在才知道他原來是這樣一個容易說話而沒有主意的人，以致被他那批詭計多端的朋友們牽制住了，聽憑他們反復無常地作弄他，拿他的幸福作犧牲品──想到這些，她就不能不氣憤，甚至不免有些看不起他。要是只有他個人的幸福遭到犧牲，那他愛怎么胡搞都可以，可是這里面畢竟還牽涉著她姐姐的幸福，她相信他自己也應該明白。
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