Mansfield Park - Chapter 30

Miss Crawford's uneasiness was much lightened by this conversation, and she walked home again in spirits which might have defied almost another week of the same small party in the same bad weather, had they been put to the proof; but as that very evening brought her brother down from London again in quite, or more than quite, his usual cheerfulness, she had nothing farther to try her own. His still refusing to tell her what he had gone for was but the promotion ¹ of gaiety; a day before it might have irritated, but now it was a pleasant joke--suspected only of concealing ² something planned as a pleasant surprise to herself. And the next day did bring a surprise to her. Henry had said he should just go and ask the Bertrams how they did, and be back in ten minutes, but he was gone above an hour; and when his sister, who had been waiting for him to walk with her in the garden, met him at last most impatiently in the sweep, and cried out, "My dear Henry, where can you have been all this time?" he had only to say that he had been sitting with Lady Bertram and Fanny., ,"Sitting with them an hour and a half!" exclaimed Mary., ,But this was only the beginning of her surprise., , ,The surprise was now complete; for, in spite of whatever his consciousness might suggest, a suspicion of his having any such views had never entered his sister's imagination; and she looked so truly the astonishment ⁵ she felt, that he was obliged to repeat what he had said, and more fully ⁶ and more solemnly. The conviction of his determination once admitted, it was not unwelcome. There was even pleasure with the surprise. Mary was in a state of mind to rejoice in a connexion with the Bertram family, and to be not displeased ⁷ with her brother's marrying a little beneath him., ,"Yes, Mary," was Henry's concluding assurance. "I am fairly caught. You know with what idle designs I began; but this is the end of them. I have, I flatter myself, made no inconsiderable progress in her affections; but my own are entirely fixed ⁸.", ,The clerk was given a promotion and an increase in salary.那个职员升了级，加了薪。,Despite his outward display of friendliness, I sensed he was concealing something. 尽管他表现得友善 ，我还是感觉到他有所隐瞒 。 来自《简明英汉词典》