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| Their road was through a pleasant country; and Fanny, whose rides had never been extensive, was soon beyond her knowledge, and was very happy in observing all that was new, and admiring all that was pretty. | Дорога пролегала по приятной местности, и Фанни, которая в своих прогулках верхом особенно не отдалялась от дому, скоро с великой радостью уже смотрела на все то, чего не видела прежде, и любовалась открывающейся ей красотою. |
| She was not often invited to join in the conversation of the others, nor did she desire it. | Во время беседы к ней обращались не часто, да ей этого и не хотелось. |
| Her own thoughts and reflections were habitually her best companions; and, in observing the appearance of the country, the bearings of the roads, the difference of soil, the state of the harvest, the cottages, the cattle, the children, she found entertainment that could only have been heightened by having Edmund to speak to of what she felt. | Собственные мысли и раздумья были по обыкновению лучшими ее собеседниками, и, замечая новые окрестности, коттеджи, стада, ребятишек, направление дорог, разницу в почвах, хороши ли хлеба и травы, она находила в том развлечение, которое могло стать отраднее единственно, если б она могла поделиться своими чувствами с Эдмундом. |
| That was the only point of resemblance between her and the lady who sat by her: in everything but a value for Edmund, Miss Crawford was very unlike her. | Только в этом и было у ней сходство с молодой особой, которая сидела рядом; во всем, кроме расположения к Эдмунду, мисс Крофорд ничуть на нее не походила. |
| She had none of Fanny's delicacy of taste, of mind, of feeling; she saw Nature, inanimate Nature, with little observation; her attention was all for men and women, her talents for the light and lively. | Совсем у ней не было присущей Фанни тонкости вкуса, ума, чувств; она едва замечала природу, неодушевленную природу; весь ее интерес был устремлен на людей, а склонность она имела к тому, что ярко и весело. |
| In looking back after Edmund, however, when there was any stretch of road behind them, or when he gained on them in ascending a considerable hill, they were united, and a "there he is" broke at the same moment from them both, more than once. | Однако, глядя назад, на Эдмунда, когда дорога не петляла или, если он догонял их, когда дорога шла круто вверх, девицы были единодушны, и не раз в один и тот же миг восклицали "а вот и он". |
| For the first seven miles Miss Bertram had very little real comfort: her prospect always ended in Mr. Crawford and her sister sitting side by side, full of conversation and merriment; and to see only his expressive profile as he turned with a smile to Julia, or to catch the laugh of the other, was a perpetual source of irritation, which her own sense of propriety could but just smooth over. |