THE whole party were in hopes of a letter from Mr. Bennet the next morning, but the post came in without bringing a single line from him. His family knew him to be, on all common occasions, a most negligent and dilatory correspondent, but at such a time they had hoped for exertion. They were forced to conclude that he had no pleasing intelligence to send, but even of that they would have been glad to be certain. Mr. Gardiner had waited only for the letters before he set off.
第二天早上，大家都指望班納特先生會寄信來，可是等到郵差來了，卻沒有帶來他的片紙只字。家里人本來知道他一向懶得寫信，能夠拖延總是拖延；但是在這樣的時候，她們都希望他能夠勉為其難一些。既是沒有信來，她們只得認為他沒有什么愉快的消息可以報道，即使如此，她們也希望把事情弄個清楚明白。嘉丁納先生也希望在動身以前能夠看到幾封信。
When he was gone, they were certain at least of receiving constant information of what was going on, and their uncle promised, at parting, to prevail on Mr. Bennet to return to Longbourn as soon as he could, to the great consolation of his sister, who considered it as the only security for her husband's not being killed in a duel.
嘉丁納先生去了以后，大家都認為，今后至少可以經常聽到一些事情進行的經過情形。他臨走的時候，答應一定去勸告班納特先生盡可能馬上回來。她們的母親聽了這些話，很是安慰，她認為只有這樣，才能保證她丈夫不會在決斗中被人打死。
Mrs. Gardiner and the children were to remain in Hertfordshire a few days longer, as the former thought her presence might be serviceable to her nieces. She shared in their attendance on Mrs. Bennet, and was a great comfort to them in their hours of freedom. Their other aunt also visited them frequently, and always, as she said, with the design of cheering and heartening them up, though as she never came without reporting some fresh instance of Wickham's extravagance or irregularity, she seldom went away without leaving them more dispirited than she found them.
嘉丁納太太和她的孩子們還要在哈福德郡多待幾天，因為她覺得，待在這里可以讓外甥女們多一個幫手。她可以幫她們等候班納特太太，等她們空下來的時候，又大可以安慰安慰她們。姨媽也常常來看她們，而且據她自己說，她來的目的是為了讓她們高興高興，給她們打打氣，不過，她沒有哪一次來不談到韋翰的奢侈淫佚，每次都可以舉出新的事例。她每次走了以后，總是叫她們比她沒有來以前更加意氣消沉。
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