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You know pretty well, I suppose, what has been done for the young people. His debts are to be paid, amounting, I believe, to considerably more than a thousand pounds, another thousand in addition to her own settled upon her, and his commission purchased. The reason why all this was to be done by him alone, was such as I have given above. It was owing to him, to his reserve and want of proper consideration, that Wickham's character had been so misunderstood, and consequently that he had been received and noticed as he was. Perhaps there was some truth in this; though I doubt whether his reserve, or anybody's reserve, can be answerable for the event. But in spite of all this fine talking, my dear Lizzy, you may rest perfectly assured that your uncle would never have yielded, if we had not given him credit for another interest in the affair. When all this was resolved on, he returned again to his friends, who were still staying at Pemberley; but it was agreed that he should be in London once more when the wedding took place, and all money matters were then to receive the last finish.
我想你一定會深刻了解到，他對那一對青年男女盡了多大的力。我相信他替他償還的債務一定遠在一千鎊以上，而且除了她自己名下的錢以外，另外又給她一千鎊，還給他買了個官職。至于這些錢為什么得由他一個人付，我已經在上面說明理由。他說這都怪他自己不好，怪他當初考慮欠妥，矜持過分，以致叫人家不明了韋翰的人品，結果使人家上了當，把他當做好人。這番話或許真有幾分道理；不過我卻覺得，這種事既不應當怪他矜持過分，也不應當怪別人矜持過分。親愛的麗萃，你應當明白，他的話雖然說得這樣動聽，我們要不是鑒于他別有苦心，你舅父決不肯依從他。一切事情都決定了以后，他便回到彭伯里去應酬他那些朋友，大家同時說定，等到舉行婚禮的那天，他還得再到倫敦來，辦理一切有關金錢方面的最后手續。
