La perspectiva de cuatro libras al año, además de sus ingresos actuales, aparte de la mitad restante de la fortuna de su propia madre, le calentó el corazón y lo hizo sentirse capaz de generosidad. > «Sí, les daría tres mil libras: ¡sería generoso y elegante! Bastaría para dejarlas completamente desahogadas. ¡Tres mil libras! podía prescindir de una suma tan considerable con poca incomodidad». Pensó en ello todo el día, y durante muchos días sucesivos, y no se
No sooner was his father’s funeral over, than Mrs. John Dashwood, without sending any notice of her intention to her mother-in-law, arrived with her child and their attendants.
No one could dispute her right to come; the house was her husband’s from the moment of his father’s decease; but the indelicacy of her conduct was so much the greater, and to a woman in Mrs. Dashwood’s situation, with only common feelings, must have been highly unpleasing; but in her mind there was a sense of honor so keen, a generosity so romantic, that any offence of the kind, by whomsoever given or received, was to her a source of immovable disgust.
Mrs. John Dashwood had never been a favourite with any of her husband’s family; but she had had no opportunity, till the present, of showing them with how little attention to the comfort of other people she could act when occasion required it.
Tan agudamente sintió la señora Dashwood este grosero comportamiento, y con tanta sinceridad despreció por ello a su nuera, que, a la llegada de esta última, habría abandonado la casa para siempre, de no ser porque las súplicas de su hija mayor la indujeron primero a reflexionar sobre la conveniencia de marcharse, y su propio amor tierno