Pride and Prejudice, Chapter 6

Chapter 6

The ladies of Longbourn soon waited on those of Netherfield. Les dames de Longbourn attendirent bientôt celles de Netherfield. As senhoras de Longbourn logo serviram as de Netherfield. The visit was soon returned in due form. A visita foi logo devolvida na devida forma. Miss Bennet's pleasing manners grew on the goodwill of Mrs. Hurst and Miss Bingley; and though the mother was found to be intolerable, and the younger sisters not worth speaking to, a wish of being better acquainted with _them_ was expressed towards the two eldest. Les manières agréables de Mlle Bennet se sont développées sur la bonne volonté de Mme Hurst et Mlle Bingley ; et bien que la mère se soit avérée intolérable et que les sœurs cadettes ne valaient pas la peine de parler, le désir de mieux les connaître s'était exprimé envers les deux aînés. As maneiras agradáveis da Srta. Bennet cresceram com a boa vontade da Sra. Hurst e da Srta. Bingley; e embora a mãe fosse considerada intolerável e não valesse a pena falar com as irmãs mais novas, um desejo de conhecê-las melhor foi expresso em relação às duas mais velhas. By Jane, this attention was received with the greatest pleasure, but Elizabeth still saw superciliousness in their treatment of everybody, hardly excepting even her sister, and could not like them; though their kindness to Jane, such as it was, had a value as arising in all probability from the influence of their brother's admiration. Por Jane, essa atenção foi recebida com o maior prazer, mas Elizabeth ainda via arrogância no tratamento de todos, dificilmente exceto até mesmo sua irmã, e não podia gostar deles; embora a bondade deles para com Jane, tal como era, tivesse um valor decorrente com toda a probabilidade da influência da admiração de seu irmão. It was generally evident whenever they met, that he _did_ admire her and to _her_ it was equally evident that Jane was yielding to the preference which she had begun to entertain for him from the first, and was in a way to be very much in love; but she considered with pleasure that it was not likely to be discovered by the world in general, since Jane united, with great strength of feeling, a composure of temper and a uniform cheerfulness of manner which would guard her from the suspicions of the impertinent. She mentioned this to her friend Miss Lucas.

“It may perhaps be pleasant,” replied Charlotte, “to be able to impose on the public in such a case; but it is sometimes a disadvantage to be so very guarded. “Talvez seja agradável”, respondeu Charlotte, “poder impor ao público em tal caso; mas às vezes é uma desvantagem ser tão cauteloso. If a woman conceals her affection with the same skill from the object of it, she may lose the opportunity of fixing him; and it will then be but poor consolation to believe the world equally in the dark. Se uma mulher esconde sua afeição com a mesma habilidade do objeto dela, ela pode perder a oportunidade de consertá-lo; e então será apenas um pobre consolo acreditar no mundo igualmente no escuro. There is so much of gratitude or vanity in almost every attachment, that it is not safe to leave any to itself. Há tanta gratidão ou vaidade em quase todos os apegos, que não é seguro deixá-los sozinhos. We can all _begin_ freely—a slight preference is natural enough; but there are very few of us who have heart enough to be really in love without encouragement. In nine cases out of ten a woman had better show _more_ affection than she feels. Bingley likes your sister undoubtedly; but he may never do more than like her, if she does not help him on.” Bingley gosta de sua irmã, sem dúvida; mas ele nunca pode fazer mais do que gostar dela, se ela não o ajudar.

“But she does help him on, as much as her nature will allow. “Mas ela o ajuda, tanto quanto sua natureza permite. If _I_ can perceive her regard for him, he must be a simpleton, indeed, not to discover it too.”

“Remember, Eliza, that he does not know Jane's disposition as you do.” “Lembre-se, Eliza, que ele não conhece a disposição de Jane como você.” “But if a woman is partial to a man, and does not endeavour to conceal it, he must find it out.” “Mas se uma mulher é parcial para um homem e não se esforça para escondê-lo, ele deve descobrir.”

“Perhaps he must, if he sees enough of her. “Talvez ele deve, se ele vê o suficiente dela. But, though Bingley and Jane meet tolerably often, it is never for many hours together; and, as they always see each other in large mixed parties, it is impossible that every moment should be employed in conversing together. Mas, embora Bingley e Jane se encontrem com bastante frequência, nunca é por muitas horas juntos; e, como eles sempre se vêem em grandes festas mistas, é impossível que cada momento seja empregado em conversar entre si. Jane should therefore make the most of every half-hour in which she can command his attention. When she is secure of him, there will be more leisure for falling in love as much as she chooses.” Quando ela estiver segura dele, haverá mais tempo livre para se apaixonar tanto quanto ela quiser.”

“Your plan is a good one,” replied Elizabeth, “where nothing is in question but the desire of being well married, and if I were determined to get a rich husband, or any husband, I dare say I should adopt it. But these are not Jane's feelings; she is not acting by design. Mas esses não são os sentimentos de Jane; ela não está agindo por design. As yet, she cannot even be certain of the degree of her own regard nor of its reasonableness. Até agora, ela não pode nem mesmo ter certeza do grau de sua própria consideração nem de sua razoabilidade. She has known him only a fortnight. She danced four dances with him at Meryton; she saw him one morning at his own house, and has since dined with him in company four times. This is not quite enough to make her understand his character.”

“Not as you represent it. “Não como você representa. Had she merely _dined_ with him, she might only have discovered whether he had a good appetite; but you must remember that four evenings have also been spent together—and four evenings may do a great deal.”

“Yes; these four evenings have enabled them to ascertain that they both like Vingt-un better than Commerce; but with respect to any other leading characteristic, I do not imagine that much has been unfolded.” "Ja; diese vier Abende haben es ihnen ermöglicht, festzustellen, dass sie beide Vingt-un lieber mögen als Commerce; aber in Bezug auf irgendeine andere Haupteigenschaft, glaube ich nicht, dass viel herausgekommen ist." "Sim; estas quatro noites permitiram-lhes verificar que ambos gostam mais de Vingt-un do que de Commerce; mas com relação a qualquer outra característica principal, não imagino que muito tenha sido revelado.”

“Well,” said Charlotte, “I wish Jane success with all my heart; and if she were married to him to-morrow, I should think she had as good a chance of happiness as if she were to be studying his character for a twelvemonth. Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance. A felicidade no casamento é inteiramente uma questão de sorte. If the dispositions of the parties are ever so well known to each other or ever so similar beforehand, it does not advance their felicity in the least. Se as disposições das partes são tão bem conhecidas entre si ou tão semelhantes de antemão, isso não adianta em nada a sua felicidade. They always continue to grow sufficiently unlike afterwards to have their share of vexation; and it is better to know as little as possible of the defects of the person with whom you are to pass your life.”

“You make me laugh, Charlotte; but it is not sound. “Você me faz rir, Charlotte; mas não é som. You know it is not sound, and that you would never act in this way yourself.” Você sabe que não é bom, e que você nunca agiria dessa maneira.”

Occupied in observing Mr. Bingley's attentions to her sister, Elizabeth was far from suspecting that she was herself becoming an object of some interest in the eyes of his friend. Ocupada em observar as atenções do Sr. Bingley para com sua irmã, Elizabeth estava longe de suspeitar que ela mesma estava se tornando objeto de algum interesse aos olhos de seu amigo. Mr. Darcy had at first scarcely allowed her to be pretty; he had looked at her without admiration at the ball; and when they next met, he looked at her only to criticise. But no sooner had he made it clear to himself and his friends that she hardly had a good feature in her face, than he began to find it was rendered uncommonly intelligent by the beautiful expression of her dark eyes. To this discovery succeeded some others equally mortifying. Though he had detected with a critical eye more than one failure of perfect symmetry in her form, he was forced to acknowledge her figure to be light and pleasing; and in spite of his asserting that her manners were not those of the fashionable world, he was caught by their easy playfulness. Embora tivesse detectado com um olhar crítico mais de uma falha de perfeita simetria em sua forma, ele foi forçado a reconhecer que sua figura era leve e agradável; e apesar de ele afirmar que as maneiras dela não eram as do mundo da moda, ele foi pego por sua brincadeira fácil. Of this she was perfectly unaware; to her he was only the man who made himself agreeable nowhere, and who had not thought her handsome enough to dance with. Disso ela desconhecia perfeitamente; para ela, ele era apenas o homem que se mostrava agradável em lugar nenhum e que não a achava bonita o suficiente para dançar.

He began to wish to know more of her, and as a step towards conversing with her himself, attended to her conversation with others. His doing so drew her notice. Ele fez isso chamou sua atenção. It was at Sir William Lucas's, where a large party were assembled. Foi na casa de Sir William Lucas, onde se reuniu um grande grupo. “What does Mr. Darcy mean,” said she to Charlotte, “by listening to my conversation with Colonel Forster?” “O que o Sr. Darcy quer dizer”, disse ela a Charlotte, “ao ouvir minha conversa com o Coronel Forster?”

“That is a question which Mr. Darcy only can answer.”

“But if he does it any more I shall certainly let him know that I see what he is about. “Mas se ele continuar fazendo isso, certamente vou deixá-lo saber que eu vejo o que ele está fazendo. He has a very satirical eye, and if I do not begin by being impertinent myself, I shall soon grow afraid of him.” Ele tem um olhar muito satírico, e se eu não começar sendo impertinente, logo terei medo dele.

On his approaching them soon afterwards, though without seeming to have any intention of speaking, Miss Lucas defied her friend to mention such a subject to him; which immediately provoking Elizabeth to do it, she turned to him and said:

“Did you not think, Mr. Darcy, that I expressed myself uncommonly well just now, when I was teasing Colonel Forster to give us a ball at Meryton?” — Você não acha, Sr. Darcy, que eu me expressei excepcionalmente bem agora, quando estava provocando o Coronel Forster para nos dar um baile em Meryton?

“With great energy; but it is always a subject which makes a lady energetic.”

“You are severe on us.” “Você é severo conosco.”

“It will be _her_ turn soon to be teased,” said Miss Lucas. "Será sua vez de ser provocada em breve", disse a Srta. Lucas. “I am going to open the instrument, Eliza, and you know what follows.” “Vou abrir o instrumento, Eliza, e você sabe o que se segue.”

“You are a very strange creature by way of a friend!—always wanting me to play and sing before anybody and everybody! “Você é uma criatura muito estranha como amigo!—sempre querendo que eu toque e cante diante de todos e de todos! If my vanity had taken a musical turn, you would have been invaluable; but as it is, I would really rather not sit down before those who must be in the habit of hearing the very best performers.” On Miss Lucas's persevering, however, she added, “Very well, if it must be so, it must.” And gravely glancing at Mr. Darcy, “There is a fine old saying, which everybody here is of course familiar with: ‘Keep your breath to cool your porridge'; and I shall keep mine to swell my song.” Se minha vaidade tivesse tomado um rumo musical, você teria sido inestimável; mas do jeito que está, eu realmente preferiria não me sentar diante daqueles que devem ter o hábito de ouvir os melhores artistas.” Sobre a perseverança da senhorita Lucas, no entanto, ela acrescentou: "Muito bem, se deve ser assim, deve ser". E olhando gravemente para o Sr. Darcy, “Há um bom e velho ditado, que todos aqui estão familiarizados: 'Mantenha a respiração para esfriar seu mingau'; e guardarei o meu para engrossar minha canção.” Her performance was pleasing, though by no means capital. After a song or two, and before she could reply to the entreaties of several that she would sing again, she was eagerly succeeded at the instrument by her sister Mary, who having, in consequence of being the only plain one in the family, worked hard for knowledge and accomplishments, was always impatient for display.

Mary had neither genius nor taste; and though vanity had given her application, it had given her likewise a pedantic air and conceited manner, which would have injured a higher degree of excellence than she had reached. Mary não tinha gênio nem bom gosto; e, embora a vaidade tivesse dado sua aplicação, também lhe dera um ar pedante e modos presunçosos, o que teria prejudicado um grau mais alto de excelência do que ela havia alcançado. Elizabeth, easy and unaffected, had been listened to with much more pleasure, though not playing half so well; and Mary, at the end of a long concerto, was glad to purchase praise and gratitude by Scotch and Irish airs, at the request of her younger sisters, who, with some of the Lucases, and two or three officers, joined eagerly in dancing at one end of the room. Elizabeth, tranquila e não afetada, fora ouvida com muito mais prazer, embora não tocasse tão bem; e Mary, no final de um longo concerto, ficou feliz em receber elogios e gratidão por ares escoceses e irlandeses, a pedido de suas irmãs mais novas, que, com alguns dos Lucas e dois ou três oficiais, juntaram-se avidamente na dança em uma extremidade da sala.

Mr. Darcy stood near them in silent indignation at such a mode of passing the evening, to the exclusion of all conversation, and was too much engrossed by his thoughts to perceive that Sir William Lucas was his neighbour, till Sir William thus began: Mr. Darcy estava perto deles em silenciosa indignação com tal modo de passar a noite, excluindo qualquer conversa, e estava muito absorto em seus pensamentos para perceber que Sir William Lucas era seu vizinho, até que Sir William assim começou:

“What a charming amusement for young people this is, Mr. Darcy! There is nothing like dancing after all. I consider it as one of the first refinements of polished society.” I consider it as one of the first refinements of polished society.”

“Certainly, sir; and it has the advantage also of being in vogue amongst the less polished societies of the world. Every savage can dance.”

Sir William only smiled. “Your friend performs delightfully,” he continued after a pause, on seeing Bingley join the group; “and I doubt not that you are an adept in the science yourself, Mr. Darcy.” “Seu amigo se apresenta deliciosamente,” ele continuou depois de uma pausa, ao ver Bingley se juntar ao grupo; "e não duvido que você seja um adepto da ciência, Sr. Darcy."

“You saw me dance at Meryton, I believe, sir.”

“Yes, indeed, and received no inconsiderable pleasure from the sight. Do you often dance at St. James's?” “Never, sir.”

“Do you not think it would be a proper compliment to the place?” "Você não acha que seria um elogio adequado ao lugar?"

“It is a compliment which I never pay to any place if I can avoid it.”

“You have a house in town, I conclude?”

Mr. Darcy bowed.

“I had once had some thought of fixing in town myself—for I am fond of superior society; but I did not feel quite certain that the air of London would agree with Lady Lucas.” “Uma vez pensei em me fixar na cidade, pois gosto da sociedade superior; mas não tinha muita certeza de que o ar de Londres concordaria com Lady Lucas.

He paused in hopes of an answer; but his companion was not disposed to make any; and Elizabeth at that instant moving towards them, he was struck with the action of doing a very gallant thing, and called out to her: Ele fez uma pausa na esperança de uma resposta; mas seu companheiro não estava disposto a fazer nenhum; e Elizabeth naquele instante, movendo-se em direção a eles, ele ficou impressionado com a ação de fazer uma coisa muito galante, e gritou para ela:

“My dear Miss Eliza, why are you not dancing? Mr. Darcy, you must allow me to present this young lady to you as a very desirable partner. Sr. Darcy, você deve me permitir apresentar esta jovem a você como uma parceira muito desejável. You cannot refuse to dance, I am sure when so much beauty is before you.” And, taking her hand, he would have given it to Mr. Darcy who, though extremely surprised, was not unwilling to receive it, when she instantly drew back, and said with some discomposure to Sir William: Você não pode se recusar a dançar, tenho certeza quando tanta beleza está diante de você.” E, pegando na mão dela, ele a teria dado a Mr. Darcy, que, embora extremamente surpreso, não relutava em recebê-la, quando ela imediatamente recuou e disse com algum desgosto a Sir William:

“Indeed, sir, I have not the least intention of dancing. I entreat you not to suppose that I moved this way in order to beg for a partner.”

Mr. Darcy, with grave propriety, requested to be allowed the honour of her hand, but in vain. Mr. Darcy, com grave propriedade, pediu que lhe fosse concedida a honra de sua mão, mas em vão. Elizabeth was determined; nor did Sir William at all shake her purpose by his attempt at persuasion. Elizabeth estava determinada; nem Sir William abalou seu propósito por sua tentativa de persuasão.

“You excel so much in the dance, Miss Eliza, that it is cruel to deny me the happiness of seeing you; and though this gentleman dislikes the amusement in general, he can have no objection, I am sure, to oblige us for one half-hour.”

“Mr. Darcy is all politeness,” said Elizabeth, smiling.

“He is, indeed; but, considering the inducement, my dear Miss Eliza, we cannot wonder at his complaisance—for who would object to such a partner?” “Ele é, de fato; mas, considerando o incentivo, minha querida senhorita Eliza, não podemos nos surpreender com sua complacência, pois quem se oporia a tal parceiro?

Elizabeth looked archly, and turned away. Her resistance had not injured her with the gentleman, and he was thinking of her with some complacency, when thus accosted by Miss Bingley: Sua resistência não a feriu com o cavalheiro, e ele estava pensando nela com alguma complacência, quando assim abordado por Miss Bingley:

“I can guess the subject of your reverie.” “Posso adivinhar o assunto do seu devaneio.”

“I should imagine not.”

“You are considering how insupportable it would be to pass many evenings in this manner—in such society; and indeed I am quite of your opinion. “Você está considerando o quão insuportável seria passar muitas noites dessa maneira – em tal sociedade; e, de fato, sou totalmente da sua opinião. I was never more annoyed! The insipidity, and yet the noise—the nothingness, and yet the self-importance of all those people! What would I give to hear your strictures on them!” O que eu daria para ouvir suas críticas sobre eles!”

“Your conjecture is totally wrong, I assure you. My mind was more agreeably engaged. I have been meditating on the very great pleasure which a pair of fine eyes in the face of a pretty woman can bestow.”

Miss Bingley immediately fixed her eyes on his face, and desired he would tell her what lady had the credit of inspiring such reflections. Mr. Darcy replied with great intrepidity:

“Miss Elizabeth Bennet.”

“Miss Elizabeth Bennet!” repeated Miss Bingley. “I am all astonishment. How long has she been such a favourite?—and pray, when am I to wish you joy?” Há quanto tempo ela é uma das favoritas? — e, por favor, quando devo desejar-lhe alegria?

“That is exactly the question which I expected you to ask. A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony, in a moment. I knew you would be wishing me joy.”

“Nay, if you are serious about it, I shall consider the matter is absolutely settled. “Não, se você está falando sério sobre isso, considerarei que o assunto está absolutamente resolvido. You will be having a charming mother-in-law, indeed; and, of course, she will always be at Pemberley with you.”

He listened to her with perfect indifference while she chose to entertain herself in this manner; and as his composure convinced her that all was safe, her wit flowed long.