Mansfield Park - Chapter 48

Let other pens dwell on guilt ¹ and misery ². I quit such odious ³ subjects as soon as I can, impatient to restore everybody, not greatly in fault themselves, to tolerable comfort, and to have done with all the rest., ,My Fanny, indeed, at this very time, I have the satisfaction of knowing, must have been happy in spite of everything. She must have been a happy creature in spite of all that she felt, or thought she felt, for the distress ⁴ of those around her. She had sources of delight that must force their way. She was returned to Mansfield Park, she was useful, she was beloved; she was safe from Mr. Crawford; and when Sir Thomas came back she had every proof that could be given in his then melancholy ⁵ state of spirits, of his perfect approbation ⁶ and increased regard; and happy as all this must make her, she would still have been happy without any of it, for Edmund was no longer the dupe of Miss Crawford., ,It is true that Edmund was very far from happy himself. He was suffering from disappointment and regret, grieving over what was, and wishing for what could never be. She knew it was so, and was sorry; but it was with a sorrow so founded on satisfaction, so tending to ease, and so much in harmony with every dearest sensation, that there are few who might not have been glad to exchange their greatest gaiety for it., , ,Here was comfort indeed! and quite as soon as Sir Thomas could place dependence ¹⁹ on such sources of good, Edmund was contributing to his father's ease by improvement in the only point in which he had given him pain before--improvement in his spirits. After wandering about and sitting under trees with Fanny all the summer evenings, he had so well talked his mind into submission ²⁰ as to be very tolerably cheerful again., ,These were the circumstances and the hopes which gradually brought their alleviation ²¹ to Sir Thomas, deadening his sense of what was lost, and in part reconciling him to himself; though the anguish ²² arising from the conviction of his own errors in the education of his daughters was never to be entirely ²³ done away., ,Don't lay a guilt trip on your child about schoolwork.别因为功课责备孩子而使他觉得很内疚。,Business depression usually causes misery among the working class.商业不景气常使工薪阶层受苦 。