Emma 爱玛 - Chapter 52

It was a very great relief to Emma to find Harriet as desirous as herself to avoid a meeting. Their intercourse ¹ was painful enough by letter. How much worse, had they been obliged to meet!, ,Harriet expressed herself very much as might be supposed, without reproaches, or apparent sense of ill-usage; and yet Emma fancied there was a something of resentment ², a something bordering on it in her style, which increased the desirableness of their being separate.-- It might be only her own consciousness; but it seemed as if an angel only could have been quite without resentment under such a stroke.,She had no difficulty in procuring ³ Isabella's invitation; and she was fortunate in having a sufficient reason for asking it, without resorting to invention.--There was a tooth amiss. Harriet really wished, and had wished some time, to consult a dentist. Mrs. John Knightley was delighted to be of use; any thing of ill health was a recommendation to her--and though not so fond of a dentist as of a Mr. Wingfield, she was quite eager to have Harriet under her care.--When it was thus settled on her sister's side, Emma proposed it to her friend, and found her very persuadable.-- Harriet was to go; she was invited for at least a fortnight; she was to be conveyed in Mr. Woodhouse's carriage.--It was all arranged, it was all completed, and Harriet was safe in Brunswick Square., ,Now Emma could, indeed, enjoy Mr. Knightley's visits; now she could talk, and she could listen with true happiness, unchecked by that sense of injustice ⁴, of guilt ⁵, of something most painful, which had haunted her when remembering how disappointed a heart was near her, how much might at that moment, and at a little distance, be enduring by the feelings which she had led astray herself.,The difference of Harriet at Mrs. Goddard's, or in London, made perhaps an unreasonable ⁶ difference in Emma's sensations; but she could not think of her in London without objects of curiosity and employment, which must be averting ⁷ the past, and carrying her out of herself., ,She would not allow any other anxiety to succeed directly to the place in her mind which Harriet had occupied. There was a communication before her, one which she only could be competent to make-- the confession ⁸ of her engagement to her father; but she would have nothing to do with it at present.--She had resolved to defer ⁹ the disclosure till Mrs. Weston were safe and well. No additional agitation ¹⁰ should be thrown at this period among those she loved-- and the evil should not act on herself by anticipation ¹¹ before the appointed time.--A fortnight, at least, of leisure and peace of mind, to crown every warmer, but more agitating ¹², delight, should be hers., ,She soon resolved, equally as a duty and a pleasure, to employ half an hour of this holiday of spirits in calling on Miss Fairfax.-- She ought to go--and she was longing ¹³ to see her; the resemblance of their present situations increasing every other motive ¹⁴ of goodwill ¹⁵. It would be a secret satisfaction; but the consciousness of a similarity of prospect ¹⁶ would certainly add to the interest with which she should attend to any thing Jane might communicate.,There was close intercourse between them.他们过往很密。,All her feelings of resentment just came pouring out.她一股脑儿倾吐出所有的怨恨 。