Emma 爱玛 - Chapter 50

What totally different feelings did Emma take back into the house from what she had brought out!--she had then been only daring to hope for a little respite ¹ of suffering;--she was now in an exquisite ² flutter of happiness, and such happiness moreover as she believed must still be greater when the flutter should have passed away., ,They sat down to tea--the same party round the same table-- how often it had been collected!--and how often had her eyes fallen on the same shrubs ³ in the lawn, and observed the same beautiful effect of the western sun!--But never in such a state of spirits, never in any thing like it; and it was with difficulty that she could summon enough of her usual self to be the attentive ⁴ lady of the house, or even the attentive daughter., ,Poor Mr. Woodhouse little suspected what was plotting against him in the breast of that man whom he was so cordially welcoming, and so anxiously hoping might not have taken cold from his ride.--Could he have seen the heart, he would have cared very little for the lungs; but without the most distant imagination of the impending ⁵ evil, without the slightest perception of any thing extraordinary in the looks or ways of either, he repeated to them very comfortably all the articles of news he had received from Mr. Perry, and talked on with much self-contentment, totally unsuspicious of what they could have told him in return., , ,She rose early, and wrote her letter to Harriet; an employment which left her so very serious, so nearly sad, that Mr. Knightley, in walking up to Hartfield to breakfast, did not arrive at all too soon; and half an hour stolen afterwards to go over the same ground again with him, literally ¹³ and figuratively, was quite necessary to reinstate her in a proper share of the happiness of the evening before., ,He had not left her long, by no means long enough for her to have the slightest inclination ¹⁴ for thinking of any body else, when a letter was brought her from Randalls--a very thick letter;--she guessed what it must contain, and deprecated the necessity of reading it.-- She was now in perfect charity with Frank Churchill; she wanted no explanations, she wanted only to have her thoughts to herself-- and as for understanding any thing he wrote, she was sure she was incapable ¹⁶ of it.--It must be waded ¹⁷ through, however. She opened the packet; it was too surely so;--a note from Mrs. Weston to herself, ushered ¹⁸ in the letter from Frank to Mrs. Weston., ,Devaluation would only give the economy a brief respite.贬值只能让经济得到暂时的缓解
。,I was admiring the exquisite workmanship in the mosaic.我当时正在欣赏镶嵌画的精致做工。