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"Did Mr. Darcy give you his reasons for this interference?"
“達西先生有沒有說他為了什么理由要管人家閑事？”
"I understood that there were some very strong objections against the lady."
“我聽說那位小姐有些條件太不夠格。”
"And what arts did he use to separate them?"
“他用什么手段把他們倆拆開的？”
"He did not talk to me of his own arts," said Fitzwilliam smiling. "He only told me what I have now told you."
費茨威廉笑了笑說：“他并沒有說明他用的是什么手段，他講給我聽的，我剛才全部都講給你聽了。”
Elizabeth made no answer, and walked on, her heart swelling with indignation. After watching her a little, Fitzwilliam asked her why she was so thoughtful.
伊麗莎白沒有回答，繼續往前走，她心里氣透了。費茨威廉望了她一下，問她為什么這樣思慮重重。
"I am thinking of what you have been telling me," said she. "Your cousin's conduct does not suit my feelings. Why was he to be the judge?"
她說：“我在回想你剛才說給我聽的話，我覺得你那位表兄的做法不大好。憑什么要他作主？”
"You are rather disposed to call his interference officious?"
“你認為他的干涉完全是多管閑事嗎？”
"I do not see what right Mr. Darcy had to decide on the propriety of his friend's inclination, or why, upon his own judgment alone, he was to determine and direct in what manner that friend was to be happy." "But," she continued, recollecting herself, "as we know none of the particulars, it is not fair to condemn him. It is not to be supposed that there was much affection in the case."
“我真不懂，達西先生有什么權利斷定他朋友的戀愛合適不合適；憑著他一個人的意思，他怎么就能指揮他的朋友要怎樣去獲得幸福。”她說到這里，便平了一下氣，然后繼續說下去，“可是我們不明白其中的底細，那么，我們要指責他，也就難免不公平。也許這一對男女中間根本就沒有什么愛情。”
"That is not an unnatural surmise," said Fitzwilliam, "but it is lessening the honour of my cousin's triumph very sadly."
“這種推斷倒不能說不合情理。”費茨威廉說。“我表兄本來是一團高興，給你這樣一說，他的功勞可要大大地打折扣啦。”
This was spoken jestingly, but it appeared to her so just a picture of Mr. Darcy that she would not trust herself with an answer; and, therefore, abruptly changing the conversation, talked on indifferent matters till they reached the parsonage. There, shut into her own room as soon as their visitor left them, she could think without interruption of all that she had heard. It was not to be supposed that any other people could be meant than those with whom she was connected. There could not exist in the world two men over whom Mr. Darcy could have such boundless influence. That he had been concerned in the measures taken to separate Mr. Bingley and Jane, she had never doubted; but she had always attributed to Miss Bingley the principal design and arrangement of them. If his own vanity, however, did not mislead him, he was the cause, his pride and caprice were the cause, of all that Jane had suffered, and still continued to suffer. He had ruined for a while every hope of happiness for the most affectionate, generous heart in the world; and no one could say how lasting an evil he might haveinflicted.
他這句話本是說著打趣的，可是她倒覺得，這句話正好是達西先生的一幅逼真的寫照，她因此不便回答，便突然改變了話題，盡談些無關緊要的事，邊談邊走不覺來到了牧師住宅的門前。客人一走，她就回到自己房里閉門獨坐，把剛才所聽來的一番話仔細思量。他剛剛所提到的那一對男女，一定跟她有關。世界上決不可能有第二人會這樣無條件服從達西先生。提到用盡手段拆散彬格萊先生和吉英的好事，一定少不了有他的份，她對于這一點從來不曾懷疑過；她一向認為完全是彬格萊小姐的主意和擺布。如果彬格萊先生本來并沒有給虛榮心沖昏頭腦，那么，吉英目前所受的種種痛苦，以及將來還要受下去的痛苦，都得歸罪于他，歸罪于他的傲慢和任性。世界上一顆最親切、最慷慨的心，就這樣讓他一手把幸福的希望摧毀得一干二凈；而且誰也不敢說，他造下的這個冤孽何年何月才能了結。
