pride (Остин) - страница 36

Catherine was disconcerted, and made no answer; but Lydia, with perfect indifference, continued to express her admiration of Captain Carter, and her hope of seeing him in the course of the day, as he was going the next morning to London.
—  Ах, Джейн, от кого оно? Что там такое? Что он тебе написал? Скорее, скорее, Джейн! Говори же, милочка!
"I am astonished, my dear," said Mrs. Bennet, "that you should be so ready to think your own children silly. If I wished to think slightingly of anybody's children, it should not be of my own, however."
— Оно от мисс Бингли, - сказала Джейн и прочла вслух:
"If my children are silly, I must hope to be always sensible of it." "Моя дорогая,
если Вы не согласитесь из жалости к нам пообедать сегодня вместе со мной и Луизой, мы можем возненавидеть друг друга на веки веков, так как пребывание двух женщин tete-a-tete в течение целого дня никогда не обходится без ссоры. Приезжайте как можно скорее. Мой брат и его друзья обедают с офицерами.
"Yes—but as it happens, they are all of them very clever." Вечно Ваша
Кэролайн Бингли".
"This is the only point, I flatter myself, on which we do not agree. I had hoped that our sentiments coincided in every particular, but I must so far differ from you as to think our two youngest daughters uncommonly foolish."
—  С офицерами! - воскликнула Лидия. - Как же тетя об этом ничего не сказала?
"My dear Mr. Bennet, you must not expect such girls to have the sense of their father and mother. When they get to our age, I dare say they will not think about officers any more than we do. I remember the time when I liked a red coat myself very well—and, indeed, so I do still at my heart; and if a smart young colonel, with five or six thousand a year, should want one of my girls I shall not say nay to him; and I thought Colonel Forster looked very becoming the other night at Sir William's in his regimentals."
— Обедают в другом месте? - сказала миссис Беннет. - Какая досада!
— Могу я воспользоваться коляской? - спросила Джейн.
"Mamma," cried Lydia, "my aunt says that Colonel Forster and Captain Carter do not go so often to Miss Watson's as they did when they first came; she sees them now very often standing in Clarke's library." —  Нет, дорогая, поезжай лучше верхом. Собирается дождь, и тебе там придется переночевать.
Mrs. Bennet was prevented replying by the entrance of the footman with a note for Miss Bennet; it came from Netherfield, and the servant waited for an answer. Mrs. Bennet's eyes sparkled with pleasure, and she was eagerly calling out, while her daughter read,