American Tragedy 美国悲剧 chapter 15

As Hortense well knew Clyde was pressing more and more hungrily toward that ultimate condescension ¹ on herpart, which, though she would never have admitted it to him, was the privilege of two others. They were nevertogether any more without his insisting upon the real depth of her regard for him. Why was it, if she cared for him the least bit, that she refused to do this, that or the other -- would not let him kiss her as much as he wished,would not let him hold her in his arms as much as he would like. She was always keeping dates with otherfellows and breaking them or refusing to make them with him. What was her exact relationship toward theseothers? Did she really care more for them than she did for him? In fact, they were never together anywhere butwhat this problem of union was uppermost -- and but thinly veiled., ,And she liked to think that he was suffering from repressed desire for her all of the time that she tortured him,and that the power to allay ² his suffering lay wholly in her -- a sadistic ³ trait which had for its soil Clyde's ownmasochistic yearning ⁴ for her., ,However, in the face of her desire for the coat, his stature ⁵ and interest for her were beginning to increase. In spiteof the fact that only the morning before she had informed Clyde, with quite a flourish, that she could not possiblysee him until the following Monday -- that all her intervening nights were taken -- nevertheless, the problem of thecoat looming ⁶ up before her, she now most eagerly planned to contrive ⁷ an immediate ⁸ engagement with himwithout appearing too eager. For by then she had definitely decided ⁹ to endeavor to persuade him, if possible, tobuy the coat for her. Only of course, she would have to alter her conduct toward him radically ¹⁰. She would haveto be much sweeter -- more enticing ¹¹. Although she did not actually say to herself that now she might even bewilling to yield herself to him, still basically that was what was in her mind., , ,She recalled that he had said he would be glad to buy the coat for her if he thought she would be nice to him., ,Her first scheme in connection with all this was to suggest to Louise Ratterer to invite her brother, Clyde and athird youth by the name of Scull, who was dancing attendance upon Louise, to come to a certain dance hall thatvery evening to which she was already planning to go with the more favored cigar clerk. Only now she intendedto break that engagement and appear alone with Louise and Greta and announce that her proposed partner wasill. That would give her an opportunity to leave early with Clyde and with him walk past the Rubenstein store., ,Despite its condescension toward the Bennet family, the letter begins to allay Elizabeth's prejudice against Darcy. 尽管这封信对班纳特家的态度很高傲，但它开始消除伊丽莎白对达西的偏见。,The police tried to allay her fears but failed.警察力图减轻她的恐惧 ，但是没有收到什么效果 。