Джейн Остин - Гордость и предубеждение - английский и русский параллельные тексты

— Я просто не понимаю, какое право имел мистер Дарси решать, разумна или неразумна привязанность его друга. Как мог он один судить - с кем Бингли найдет свое счастье. Однако, - добавила она, опомнившись, - раз мы не знаем подробностей, мы не вправе его упрекать. Должно быть, привязанность была с обеих сторон не очень глубокой. "I know them a little. Their brother is a pleasant gentlemanlike man—he is a great friend of Darcy's." — Вполне разумное предположение! - воскликнул Фицуильям. - Хотя и не слишком лестное для оценки его заслуг. "Oh! yes," said Elizabeth drily; "Mr. Darcy is uncommonly kind to Mr. Bingley, and takes a prodigious deal of care of him." Слова эти были сказаны в шутку. Но эта шутка настолько соответствовала ее представлению о мистере Дарси, что, не доверяя своему самообладанию, Элизабет побоялась на нее ответить. Она перевела разговор на случайную тему и продолжала его до самых дверей пасторского дома. "Care of him! Yes, I really believe Darcy DOES take care of him in those points where he most wants care. From something that he told me in our journey hither, I have reason to think Bingley very much indebted to him. But I ought to beg his pardon, for I have no right to suppose that Bingley was the person meant. It was all conjecture." Закрывшись после ухода Фицуильяма в своей комнате, она могла без помех обдумать услышанное во время прогулки. Трудно было предположить, что речь шла не о близких ей людях. В мире не могло существовать двух человек, находившихся под таким неограниченным влиянием мистера Дарси. О некотором его участии в событиях, разлучивших Бингли и Джейн, она подозревала и раньше. Но руководство и главную роль в этих событиях она всегда приписывала мисс Бингли. Оказывалось, однако, если только Дарси не обманывало собственное тщеславие, что именно он, именно его высокомерие и самонадеянность были причиной всех прошлых и будущих горестей Джейн. "What is it you mean?" Не кто иной, как он, лишил всякой надежды на близкое счастье самое нежное и благородное сердце на свете. И едва ли можно было предугадать, как долго оно не оправится от полученной раны. "It is a circumstance which Darcy could not wish to be generally known, because if it were to get round to the lady's family, it would be an unpleasant thing." "Девица вызывала серьезные возражения!" - сказал полковник. По-видимому, эти серьезные возражения состояли в том, что один ее дядя был провинциальным стряпчим, а второй - лондонским коммерсантом. — Против самой Джейн никто не посмел бы ничего возразить! - воскликнула Элизабет. - Столько в ней прелести и обаяния! Настолько она разумна и так хорошо умеет себя держать! Ничего нельзя было бы сказать и против нашего отца. При всех его причудах, даже мистер Дарси не мог отрицать его здравого смысла, его высокой порядочности, - такой, которой самому мистеру Дарси, наверное, никогда не достичь! "You may depend upon my not mentioning it." Элизабет вспомнила о матери и почувствовала себя менее уверенно. Но она все же не допускала мысли, что Дарси серьезно покоробили недостатки миссис Беннет. Гордость Дарси, очевидно, страдала бы сильнее, породнись его друг с людьми неподобающего круга, нежели - ограниченного ума. И мало-помалу она убедила себя, что поступок Дарси объяснялся его крайним высокомерием и желанием выдать за Бингли свою сестру. "And remember that I have not much reason for supposing it to be Bingley. What he told me was merely this: that he congratulated himself on having lately saved a friend from the inconveniences of a most imprudent marriage, but without mentioning names or any other particulars, and I only suspected it to be Bingley from believing him the kind of young man to get into a scrape of that sort, and from knowing them to have been together the whole of last summer." Пережитое ею душевное потрясение привело к слезам и головной боли, которая к вечеру еще больше усилилась. Это обстоятельство, так же как нежелание встретиться с Дарси, заставило ее отказаться от посещения Розингса, куда Коллинзы были приглашены к чаю. Видя, что подруге ее в самом деле нездоровится, миссис Коллинз не стала настаивать и, по возможности, оградила ее от назойливых уговоров своего мужа. Последний, впрочем, не посмел умолчать, что отсутствие Элизабет может вызвать неудовольствие леди Кэтрин. "Did Mr. Darcy give you reasons for this interference?" "I understood that there were some very strong objections against the lady." "And what arts did he use to separate them?" "He did not talk to me of his own arts," said Fitzwilliam, smiling. "He only told me what I have now told you." Elizabeth made no answer, and walked on, her heart swelling with indignation. After watching her a little, Fitzwilliam asked her why she was so thoughtful. "I am thinking of what you have been telling me," said she. "Your cousin's conduct does not suit my feelings. Why was he to be the judge?" "You are rather disposed to call his interference officious?" "I do not see what right Mr. Darcy had to decide on the propriety of his friend's inclination, or why, upon his own judgement alone, he was to determine and direct in what manner his friend was to be happy. But," she continued, recollecting herself, "as we know none of the particulars, it is not fair to condemn him. It is not to be supposed that there was much affection in the case." "That is not an unnatural surmise," said Fitzwilliam, "but it is a lessening of the honour of my cousin's triumph very sadly." This was spoken jestingly; but it appeared to her so just a picture of Mr. Darcy, that she would not trust herself with an answer, and therefore, abruptly changing the conversation talked on indifferent matters until they reached the Parsonage. There, shut into her own room, as soon as their visitor left them, she could think without interruption of all that she had heard. It was not to be supposed that any other people could be meant than those with whom she was connected. There could not exist in the world TWO men over whom Mr. Darcy could have such boundless influence. That he had been concerned in the measures taken to separate Bingley and Jane she had never doubted; but she had always attributed to Miss Bingley the principal design and arrangement of them. If his own vanity, however, did not mislead him, HE was the cause, his pride and caprice were the cause, of all that Jane had suffered, and still continued to suffer. He had ruined for a while every hope of happiness for the most affectionate, generous heart in the world; and no one could say how lasting an evil he might have inflicted. "There were some very strong objections against the lady," were Colonel Fitzwilliam's words; and those strong objections probably were, her having one uncle who was a country attorney, and another who was in business in London. "To Jane herself," she exclaimed, "there could be no possibility of objection; all loveliness and goodness as she is!—her understanding excellent, her mind improved, and her manners captivating. Neither could anything be urged against my father, who, though with some peculiarities, has abilities Mr. Darcy himself need not disdain, and respectability which he will probably never each." When she thought of her mother, her confidence gave way a little; but she would not allow that any objections THERE had material weight with Mr. Darcy, whose pride, she was convinced, would receive a deeper wound from the want of importance in his friend's connections, than from their want of sense; and she was quite decided, at last, that he had been partly governed by this worst kind of pride, and partly by the wish of retaining Mr. Bingley for his sister. The agitation and tears which the subject occasioned, brought on a headache; and it grew so much worse towards the evening, that, added to her unwillingness to see Mr. Darcy, it determined her not to attend her cousins to Rosings, where they were engaged to drink tea. Mrs. Collins, seeing that she was really unwell, did not press her to go and as much as possible prevented her husband from pressing her; but Mr. Collins could not conceal his apprehension of Lady Catherine's being rather displeased by her staying at home. Читать дальше