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| Till this year, every long vacation since their marriage had been divided between Hartfield and Donwell Abbey; but all the holidays of this autumn had been given to sea-bathing for the children, and it was therefore many months since they had been seen in a regular way by their Surry connexions, or seen at all by Mr. Woodhouse, who could not be induced to get so far as London, even for poor Isabella's sake; and who consequently was now most nervously and apprehensively happy in forestalling this too short visit. | До этого года они, с тех пор как поженились, неизменно проводили большие праздники частью в Хартфилде, частью в Донуэллском аббатстве — нынешнею же осенью вывозили детей на морские купанья, и их родственники в Суррее уже много месяцев виделись с ними лишь урывками, а мистер Вудхаус, которого даже ради бедняжки Изабеллы невозможно было выманить в Лондон, не виделся вовсе, вследствие чего пребывал теперь в счастливом и тревожном возбуждении, предвкушая это чрезмерно краткое свидание. |
| He thought much of the evils of the journey for her, and not a little of the fatigues of his own horses and coachman who were to bring some of the party the last half of the way; but his alarms were needless; the sixteen miles being happily accomplished, and Mr. and Mrs. John Knightley, their five children, and a competent number of nursery-maids, all reaching Hartfield in safety. | Его очень волновала мысль о том, как перенесет его дочь дорожные тяготы, а также, хотя и меньше, — не устанут ли его лошади и кучер, которым предстояло везти всю компанию по крайней мере половину пути; но опасения его оказались напрасны: мистер Джон Найтли, его жена и пятеро детей, с соответствующим числом нянюшек и мамушек, благополучно проехали все шестнадцать миль пути и прибыли в Хартфилд целехоньки и невредимы. |
| The bustle and joy of such an arrival, the many to be talked to, welcomed, encouraged, and variously dispersed and disposed of, produced a noise and confusion which his nerves could not have borne under any other cause, nor have endured much longer even for this; but the ways of Hartfield and the feelings of her father were so respected by Mrs. John Knightley, that in spite of maternal solicitude for the immediate enjoyment of her little ones, and for their having instantly all the liberty and attendance, all the eating and drinking, and sleeping and playing, which they could possibly wish for, without the smallest delay, the children were never allowed to be long a disturbance to him, either in themselves or in any restless attendance on them. |