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The account of his connection with the Pemberley family was exactly what he had related himself; and the kindness of the late Mr. Darcy, though she had not before known its extent, agreed equally well with his own words. So far eachrecital confirmed the other; but when she came to the will, the difference was great.
其中講到韋翰跟彭伯里的關系的那一段，簡直和韋翰自己所說的毫無出入；再說到老達西先生生前對他的好處，信上的話也和韋翰自己所說的話完全符合，雖說她并不知道老達西先生究竟對他好到什么地步。到這里為止，雙方所述的情況都可以互相印證，但是當她讀到遺囑問題的時候，兩個人的話就大不相同了。
What Wickham had said of the living was fresh in her memory, and as she recalled his very words, it was impossible not to feel that there was gross duplicity on one side or the other; and, for a few moments, she flattered herself that her wishes did not err.
韋翰說到牧師俸祿的那些話，她還記得清清楚楚；她一想起他那些話，就不免感覺到，他們兩個人之間總有一個人說的是假話，于是她一時之間，倒高興起來了，以為自己這種想法不會有錯。
But when she read, and re-read with the closest attention, the particulars immediately following of Wickham's resigning all pretensions to the living, of his receiving, in lieu, so considerable a sum as three thousand pounds, again was she forced to hesitate. She put down the letter, weighed every circumstance with what she meant to be impartiality -- deliberated on the probability of each statement -- but with little success. On both sides it was only assertion.
接著她又極其仔細地一讀再讀，讀到韋翰借口放棄牧師俸祿從而獲得了三千磅一筆款項等等情節的時候，她又不由得猶豫起來。她放下那封信，把每一個情節不偏不倚地推敲了一下，把信中每一句話都仔仔細細考慮了一下，看看是否真有其事，可是這樣做也毫無用處。雙方都是各執一辭。
