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CHAPTER XLII. One other short call in Harley Street, in which Elinor received her brother’s congratulations on their travelling so far towards Barton without any expense, and on Colonel Brandon’s being to follow them to Cleveland in a day or two, completed the intercourse of the brother and sisters in town;—and a faint invitation from Fanny, to come to Norland whenever it should happen to be in their way, which of all things was the most unlikely to occur, with a more warm, though less public, assurance, from John to Elinor, of the promptitude with which he should come to see her at Delaford, was all that foretold any meeting in the country.
| В то же время она не только не уклонилась от того, чтобы воздать должное Элинор, как упрямо воздавал его Эдвард, но, напротив, говорила о дружеском расположении Элинор к ним обоим с самой тёплой благодарностью, охотно признала все, чем они были ей обязаны, и без обиняков объявила, что никакие старания мисс Дэшвуд оказать им услугу, в прошлом или в будущем, её не удивят, ибо мисс Дэшвуд, как она твердо убеждена, способна сделать все на свете ради тех, в ком принимает участие. |
It amused her to observe that all her friends seemed determined to send her to Delaford;—a place, in which, of all others, she would now least chuse to visit, or wish to reside; for not only was it considered as her future home by her brother and Mrs. Jennings, but even Lucy, when they parted, gave her a pressing invitation to visit her there.
| Ну, а полковнику Брэндону она не только готова была поклоняться, как святому, но и от души желала избавить его от всех забот житейской суеты, не подобающих святым, — желала, чтобы десятина его прихода была увеличена, насколько возможно, и втайне решила, что в Делафорде постарается прибрать к рукам его слуг, его карету, коровник и птичник. |
Very early in April, and tolerably early in the day, the two parties from Hanover Square and Berkeley Street set out from their respective homes, to meet, by appointment, on the road. For the convenience of Charlotte and her child, they were to be more than two days on their journey, and Mr. Palmer, travelling more expeditiously with Colonel Brandon, was to join them at Cleveland soon after their arrival.
| С тех пор как Джон Дэшвуд побывал на Беркли-стрит, прошло более недели, и они оставили нездоровье его жены без внимания, лишь один раз устно о ней осведомившись, и Элинор почувствовала, что долее откладывать визит к ней никак нельзя. |
Marianne, few as had been her hours of comfort in London, and eager as she had long been to quit it, could not, when it came to the point, bid adieu to the house in which she had for the last time enjoyed those hopes, and that confidence, in Willoughby, which were now extinguished for ever, without great pain. Nor could she leave the place in which Willoughby remained, busy in new engagements, and new schemes, in which she could have no share, without shedding many tears. Elinor’s satisfaction, at the moment of removal, was more positive.
| Однако исполнение этого светского долга совсем её не манило, а к тому же она не нашла поддержки ни у Марианны, ни у миссис Дженнингс. |
She had no such object for her lingering thoughts to fix on, she left no creature behind, from whom it would give her a moment’s regret to be divided for ever, she was pleased to be free herself from the persecution of Lucy’s friendship, she was grateful for bringing her sister away unseen by Willoughby since his marriage, and she looked forward with hope to what a few months of tranquility at Barton might do towards restoring Marianne’s peace of mind, and confirming her own.
| Первая не только наотрез отказалась поехать к невестке, но и всячески пыталась отговорить сестру, вторая же, хотя её карета всегда была к услугам Элинор, питала к миссис Джон Дэшвуд такую антипатию, что не пожелала сделать ей визит, сколь ни любопытно было ей взглянуть, как та выглядит после скандального открытия, и сколь ни хотелось ей уязвить все семейство, открыто став на сторону Эдварда. |
Their journey was safely performed. The second day brought them into the cherished, or the prohibited, county of Somerset, for as such was it dwelt on by turns in Marianne’s imagination; and in the forenoon of the third they drove up to Cleveland.
| Таким образом, Элинор волей-неволей вынуждена была отправиться на Харли-стрит в одиночестве, обрекая себя на тет-а-тет с женщиной, причин не терпеть которую у неё было куда больше, чем у Марианны и миссис Дженнингс. |
Cleveland was a spacious, modern-built house, situated on a sloping lawn.
| Лакей, однако, объявил, что миссис Дэшвуд никого не принимает. |
It had no park, but the pleasure-grounds were tolerably extensive; and like every other place of the same degree of importance, it had its open shrubbery, and closer wood walk, a road of smooth gravel winding round a plantation, led to the front, the lawn was dotted over with timber, the house itself was under the guardianship of the fir, the mountain-ash, and the acacia, and a thick screen of them altogether, interspersed with tall Lombardy poplars, shut out the offices.
| Но карета ещё не успела тронуться, как из дверей вышел супруг этой последней. |
Marianne entered the house with a heart swelling with emotion from the consciousness of being only eighty miles from Barton, and not thirty from Combe Magna; and before she had been five minutes within its walls, while the others were busily helping Charlotte to show her child to the housekeeper, she quitted it again, stealing away through the winding shrubberies, now just beginning to be in beauty, to gain a distant eminence; where, from its Grecian temple, her eye, wandering over a wide tract of country to the south-east, could fondly rest on the farthest ridge of hills in the horizon, and fancy that from their summits Combe Magna might be seen.
| Увидев Элинор, он изъявил величайшее удовольствие, сообщил, что как раз направлялся на Беркли-стрит и пригласил её войти — Фанни будет ей так рада! |
She returned just in time to join the others as they quitted the house, on an excursion through its more immediate premises; and the rest of the morning was easily whiled away, in lounging round the kitchen garden, examining the bloom upon its walls, and listening to the gardener’s lamentations upon blights, in dawdling through the green-house, where the loss of her favourite plants, unwarily exposed, and nipped by the lingering frost, raised the laughter of Charlotte,—and in visiting her poultry-yard, where, in the disappointed hopes of her dairy-maid, by hens forsaking their nests, or being stolen by a fox, or in the rapid decrease of a promising young brood, she found fresh sources of merriment.
| — Наверное, Фанни у себя, — сказал он. — Я сейчас схожу за ней, так как, полагаю, ничего против того, чтобы увидеться с тобой, она иметь не может. Отнюдь! Отнюдь! И особенно теперь... |
The morning was fine and dry, and Marianne, in her plan of employment abroad, had not calculated for any change of weather during their stay at Cleveland.
| А впрочем, она всегда особенно благоволила к тебе и Марианне... Но почему Марианна не приехала? |
With great surprise therefore, did she find herself prevented by a settled rain from going out again after dinner.
| Элинор произнесла какие-то извинения. |
She had depended on a twilight walk to the Grecian temple, and perhaps all over the grounds, and an evening merely cold or damp would not have deterred her from it; but a heavy and settled rain even she could not fancy dry or pleasant weather for walking.
| — Впрочем, я не жалею, что вижу тебя одну, — сказал он, — так как мне необходимо о многом с тобой поговорить. |
Elinor had seen so little of Mr. Palmer, and in that little had seen so much variety in his address to her sister and herself, that she knew not what to expect to find him in his own family. She found him, however, perfectly the gentleman in his behaviour to all his visitors, and only occasionally rude to his wife and her mother; she found him very capable of being a pleasant companion, and only prevented from being so always, by too great an aptitude to fancy himself as much superior to people in general, as he must feel himself to be to Mrs. Jennings and Charlotte.
| Я услышал об этом вчера совершенно случайно и собрался к вам, чтобы узнать достоверно. |
She liked him, however, upon the whole, much better than she had expected, and in her heart was not sorry that she could like him no more;—not sorry to be driven by the observation of his Epicurism, his selfishness, and his conceit, to rest with complacency on the remembrance of Edward’s generous temper, simple taste, and diffident feelings.
| Полковник Брэндон отдаёт делафордский приход Эдварду. |
Two delightful twilight walks on the third and fourth evenings of her being there, not merely on the dry gravel of the shrubbery, but all over the grounds, and especially in the most distant parts of them, where there was something more of wildness than in the rest, where the trees were the oldest, and the grass was the longest and wettest, had—assisted by the still greater imprudence of sitting in her wet shoes and stockings—given Marianne a cold so violent as, though for a day or two trifled with or denied, would force itself by increasing ailments on the concern of every body, and the notice of herself.
| Никакого родства! И они ведь даже не знакомы! И это в наши дни, когда за приход можно взять вполне приличную сумму! |
Prescriptions poured in from all quarters, and as usual, were all declined.
| Сколько он приносит? |
Though heavy and feverish, with a pain in her limbs, and a cough, and a sore throat, a good night’s rest was to cure her entirely; and it was with difficulty that Elinor prevailed on her, when she went to bed, to try one or two of the simplest of the remedies.
| — Около двухсот фунтов в год. |
She found him, however, perfectly the gentleman in his behaviour to all his visitors, and only occasionally rude to his wife and her mother; she found him very capable of being a pleasant companion, and only prevented from being so always, by too great an aptitude to fancy himself as much superior to people in general, as he must feel himself to be to Mrs. Jennings and Charlotte.
| Но она не замедлила убедиться, что со всеми своими гостями он держится как истый джентльмен и лишь очень редко бывает груб с женой и тёщей. Оказалось, что он может быть очень приятным собеседником, чему мешала лишь склонность воображать, будто и всех прочих людей он превосходит так же, как, несомненно, превосходил миссис Дженнингс и Шарлотту. |
For the rest of his character and habits, they were marked, as far as Elinor could perceive, with no traits at all unusual in his sex and time of life.
| В остальном характер и привычки, насколько могла судить Элинор, ничем не выделяли его среди мужчин того же возраста и круга. |
He was nice in his eating, uncertain in his hours; fond of his child, though affecting to slight it; and idled away the mornings at billiards, which ought to have been devoted to business.
| Ел он очень изящно, вставал и ложился спать в самое неопределенное время, питал любовь к своему ребёнку, хотя и прятал её под маской пренебрежения, и каждое утро развлекался бильярдом, вместо того чтобы заниматься делами. |
She liked him, however, upon the whole, much better than she had expected, and in her heart was not sorry that she could like him no more;—not sorry to be driven by the observation of his Epicurism, his selfishness, and his conceit, to rest with complacency on the remembrance of Edward’s generous temper, simple taste, and diffident feelings.
| Однако теперь он нравился ей много больше, чем она ожидала, хотя в глубине сердца она ничуть не жалела, что сильнее он ей понравиться не может, как не жалела, что, наблюдая его эпикурейскую праздность, его эгоизм и самовлюблённость, невольно и с радостью возвращается в мыслях к благородству Эдварда, простоте его вкусов и скромности. |
Of Edward, or at least of some of his concerns, she now received intelligence from Colonel Brandon, who had been into Dorsetshire lately; and who, treating her at once as the disinterested friend of Mr. Ferrars, and the kind confidante of himself, talked to her a great deal of the parsonage at Delaford, described its deficiencies, and told her what he meant to do himself towards removing them.—
| Об Эдварде, вернее о некоторых его делах, она кое-что узнала от полковника Брэндона, который недавно побывал в Дорсетшире и, видя в ней как дорогого друга мистера Феррарса, так и внимательную, расположенную к нему самому слушательницу, подробно рассказал ей про дом священника в Делафорде, про то, что там следовало бы подправить и какие именно починки он собирается произвести. |
.—His behaviour to her in this, as well as in every other particular, his open pleasure in meeting her after an absence of only ten days, his readiness to converse with her, and his deference for her opinion, might very well justify Mrs. Jennings’s persuasion of his attachment, and would have been enough, perhaps, had not Elinor still, as from the first, believed Marianne his real favourite, to make her suspect it herself.
| Такое его поведение, а также нескрываемая радость от их встречи, хотя они не виделись всего десять дней, удовольствие, с каким он вступил в разговор с ней, и неизменный интерес к её мнению вполне могли объяснить, почему миссис Дженнингс была столь убеждена, будто он к ней неравнодушен; да и сама Элинор, пожалуй, заподозрила бы то же, если бы с самого начала не была уверена, что сердцем его всецело владеет Марианна. |
But as it was, such a notion had scarcely ever entered her head, except by Mrs. Jennings’s suggestion; and she could not help believing herself the nicest observer of the two;—she watched his eyes, while Mrs. Jennings thought only of his behaviour;—and while his looks of anxious solicitude on Marianne’s feeling, in her head and throat, the beginning of a heavy cold, because unexpressed by words, entirely escaped the latter lady’s observation;— she could discover in them the quick feelings, and needless alarm of a lover.
| Вот почему ничего подобного ей все-таки и в голову бы не пришло, если бы не намёки миссис Дженнингс. Впрочем, она считала себя более тонкой наблюдательницей, потому что следила и за его глазами, тогда как миссис Дженнингс разбирала лишь его поведение, отчего не заметила его тревоги, когда Марианна пожаловалась на боль в висках и горле, ибо тревогу эту выражали только его взоры, а не слова, и она совершенно ускользнула от внимания почтенной дамы, но Элинор различила в них и нежное беспокойство, и чрезмерный испуг влюблённого. |
Two delightful twilight walks on the third and fourth evenings of her being there, not merely on the dry gravel of the shrubbery, but all over the grounds, and especially in the most distant parts of them, where there was something more of wildness than in the rest, where the trees were the oldest, and the grass was the longest and wettest, had—assisted by the still greater imprudence of sitting in her wet shoes and stockings—given Marianne a cold so violent as, though for a day or two trifled with or denied, would force itself by increasing ailments on the concern of every body, and the notice of herself.
| Две восхитительные прогулки в сумерках на третий и четвёртый их вечер в Кливленде (и не только по сухим дорожкам цветника, но и по всему саду, причём по самым укромным его уголкам, сохранившим некую дикость, где деревья были наиболее могучими, трава же — наиболее высокой и сырой) одарили Марианну, к тому же не потрудившуюся тотчас снять мокрые башмачки и чулки, сильнейшей простудой, которая через день-два, как ни пренебрегала она ею, как её ни отрицала, настолько разыгралась, что все вокруг заметили, а она была вынуждена признать, как ей худо. |
Prescriptions poured in from all quarters, and as usual, were all declined.
| Немедля её засыпали целительными советами, и, по обыкновению, она не приняла ни одного. |
Though heavy and feverish, with a pain in her limbs, and a cough, and a sore throat, a good night’s rest was to cure her entirely; and it was with difficulty that Elinor prevailed on her, when she went to bed, to try one or two of the simplest of the remedies.
| Жар, лихорадка, слабость во всех членах, кашель, боль в горле — это пустяки и к утру после крепкого сна пройдут сами собой. Лишь с большим трудом Элинор уговорила сестру, когда та легла, все же испробовать одно-два простейших средства. |
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