Donde se discute sobre la tristeza de Emma por el casamiento de Miss
Taylor, la conveniencia de su casamiento, la situación que Emma hiciera posible
el romance, a pesar de la opinión de la gente, y la opinión de Mr. Knightly. Del original ingles Emma,
de Jane Austen
"Dear Emma bears every thing so well," said her father.
"But, Mr. Knightley, she is really very sorry to lose poor Miss Taylor,
and I am sure she will miss her more than she thinks
for."
Emma turned away her head, divided between tears and smiles. "It is
impossible that Emma should not miss such a companion," said Mr.
Knightley. "We should not like her so well as we do, sir, if we could
suppose it; but she knows how much the marriage is to Miss Taylor's advantage;
she knows how very acceptable it must be, at Miss Taylor's time of life, to be
settled in a home of her own, and how important to her to be secure of a
comfortable provision, and therefore cannot allow herself to feel so much pain
as pleasure. Every friend of Miss Taylor must be glad to have her so happily
married."
"And you have forgotten one matter of joy to me," said Emma,
"and a very considerable one—that I made the match myself. I made the
match, you know, four years ago; and to have it take place, and be proved in
the right, when so many people said Mr. Weston would never marry again, may
comfort me for any thing."
Mr. Knightley shook his head at her. Her father fondly replied,
"Ah! my dear, I wish you would not make matches and foretell things, for whatever you say always comes to pass. Pray do
not make any more matches."
"I promise you to make none for myself, papa; but I must, indeed,
for other people. It is the greatest amusement in the world! And after such success,
you know!—Every body said that Mr. Weston would never marry again. Oh dear, no!
Mr. Weston, who had been a widower so long, and who seemed so perfectly
comfortable without a wife, so constantly occupied either in his business in
town or among his friends here, always acceptable wherever he went, always
cheerful—Mr. Weston need not spend a single evening in the year alone if he did
not like it. Oh no! Mr. Weston certainly would never marry again. Some people
even talked of a promise to his wife on her deathbed, and others of the son and
the uncle not letting him. All manner of solemn nonsense was talked on the
subject, but I believed none of it.
"Ever since the day—about four years ago—that Miss Taylor and I met
with him in Broadway Lane, when, because it began to drizzle, he darted away
with so much gallantry, and borrowed two umbrellas for us from Farmer
Mitchell's, I made up my mind on the subject. I planned the match from that
hour; and when such success has blessed me in this instance, dear papa, you
cannot think that I shall leave off match-making."
"I do not understand what you mean by 'success,'" said Mr.
Knightley. "Success supposes endeavour. Your time has been properly and
delicately spent, if you have been endeavouring for the last four years to
bring about this marriage. A worthy employment for a young lady's mind! But if,
which I rather imagine, your making the match, as you call it, means only your
planning it, your saying to yourself one idle day, 'I think it would be a very
good thing for Miss Taylor if Mr. Weston were to marry her,' and saying it
again to yourself every now and then afterwards, why do you talk of success?
Where is your merit? What are you proud of? You made a lucky guess; and that is
all that can be said."
"And have you never known the pleasure and triumph of a lucky
guess?—I pity you.—I thought you cleverer—for, depend upon it a lucky guess is
never merely luck. There is always some talent in it. And as to my poor word
'success,' which you quarrel with, I do not know that I am so entirely without
any claim to it. You have drawn two pretty pictures; but I think there may be a
third—a something between the do-nothing and the do-all. If I had not promoted
Mr. Weston's visits here, and given many little encouragements, and smoothed many little matters, it might
not have come to any thing after all. I think you must know Hartfield enough to
comprehend that." (Ingles más fácil, con uso de sinónimos y vocabulario comprensible)
Vocabulario
Foretell drizzle darted smoothed
Ideas principales
Mr. Knightly knew Emma was going to miss her friend but said she should
think that Miss Taylor finally had a home of her own. Emma commented she had
arranged the union when everyone said Mr. Weston, the husband, would never
marry again.
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