Descendieron la colina, cruzaron el puente y llegaron hasta la puerta en coche; y, al examinar la fachada de la casa más de cerca, regresaron todos sus temores de encontrarse con su dueño.
Temía que la camarera se hubiera equivocado. Al pedir permiso para ver el lugar, los dejaron pasar al hall; y Elizabeth, mientras esperaban al ama de llaves, tuvo tiempo de sobra para maravillarse de estar allí.
Lೇಖ la llave, a respectable-looking, elderly woman, much less fine, and more civil, than she had any notion of finding her.
They followed her into the dining-parlour. It was a large, well-proportioned room, handsomely fitted up. Elizabeth, after slightly surveying it, went to a window to enjoy its prospect.
The hill, crowned with wood, from which they had descended, receiving increased abruptness from the distance, was a beautiful object. Every disposition of the ground was good; and she looked on the whole scene, the river, the trees scattered on its banks, and the winding of the valley, as far as she could trace it, with delight.
As they passed into other rooms, these objects were taking different positions; but from every window there were beauties to be seen. The rooms were lofty and handsome, and their furniture suitable to the fortune of their proprietor; but Elizabeth saw, with admiration of his taste, that it was neither gaudy nor uselessly fine; with less of splendor, and more real elegance, than the furniture of Rosings.
«Y de este lugar —pensó—, ¡podría haber sido dueña! ¡Con estas habitaciones podría estar ya familiarizada! En vez de contemplarlas como una desconocida, podría haberme regocijado en ellas como si fueran mías, y haber dado la bienvenida a mi tío y a mi tía como visitantes. Pero no —al recapacitar—, eso nunca habría podido ser: mi tío y mi tía se habrían perdido para mí; no se me habría permitido invitarlos».