Though now the middle of December, there had yet been no weather to prevent the young ladies from tolerably regular exercise; and on the morrow, Emma had a charitable visit to pay to a poor sick family, who lived a little way out of Highbury.
Their road to this detached cottage was down Vicarage Lane, a lane leading at right angles from the broad, though irregular, main street of the place; and, as may be inferred, containing the blessed abode1 of Mr. Elton. A few inferior dwellings2 were first to be passed, and then, about a quarter of a mile down the lane rose the Vicarage, an old and not very good house, almost as close to the road as it could be. It had no advantage of situation; but had been very much smartened up by the present proprietor3; and, such as it was, there could be no possibility of the two friends passing it without a slackened pace and observing eyes. - Emma's remark was -
`There it is. There go you and your riddle-book one of these days.' - Harriet's was -
`Oh, what a sweet house! - How very beautiful! - There are the yellow curtains that Miss Nash admires so much.'
`I do not often walk this way now,' said Emma, as they proceeded, `but then there will be an inducement, and I shall gradually get intimately acquainted with all the hedges, gates, pools and pollards of this part of Highbury.'
Harriet, she found, had never in her life been within side the Vicarage, and her curiosity to see it was so extreme, that, considering exteriors4 and probabilities, Emma could only class it, as a proof of love, with Mr. Elton's seeing ready wit in her.
`I wish we could contrive5 it,' said she; `but I cannot think of any tolerable pretence6 for going in; - no servant that I want to inquire about of his housekeeper7 - no message from my father.'
She pondered, but could think of nothing. After a mutual8 silence of some minutes, Harriet thus began again -
`I do so wonder, Miss Woodhouse, that you should not be married, or going to be married! so charming as you are!' -
Emma laughed, and replied,
`My being charming, Harriet, is not quite enough to induce me to marry; I must find other people charming - one other person at least. And I am not only, not going to be married, at present, but have very little intention of ever marrying at all.'
`Ah! - so you say; but I cannot believe it.'
`I must see somebody very superior to any one I have seen yet, to be tempted9; Mr. Elton, you know, (recollecting herself,) is out of the question: and I do not wish to see any such person. I would rather not be tempted. I cannot really change for the better. If I were to marry, I must expect to repent10 it.'
`Dear me! - it is so odd to hear a woman talk so!' -
`I have none of the usual inducements of women to marry. Were I to fall in love, indeed, it would be a different thing! but I never have been in love; it is not my way, or my nature; and I do not think I ever shall. And, without love, I am sure I should be a fool to change such a situation as mine. Fortune I do not want; employment I do not want; consequence I do not want: I believe few married women are half as much mistress of their husband's house as I am of Hartfield; and never, never could I expect to be so truly beloved and important; so always first and always right in any man's eyes as I am in my father's.'
`But then, to be an old maid at last, like Miss Bates!'
`That is as formidable an image as you could present, Harriet; and if I thought I should ever be like Miss Bates! so silly - so satisfied - so smiling - so prosing - so undistinguishing and unfastidious - and so apt to tell every thing relative to every body about me, I would marry to-morrow. But between us, I am convinced there never can be any likeness11, except in being unmarried.'
`But still, you will be an old maid! and that's so dreadful!'
`Never mind, Harriet, I shall not be a poor old maid; and it is poverty only which makes celibacy12 contemptible13 to a generous public! A single woman, with a very narrow income, must be a ridiculous, disagreeable old maid! the proper sport of boys and girls, but a single woman, of good fortune, is always respectable, and may be as sensible and pleasant as any body else. And the distinction is not quite so much against the candour and common sense of the world as appears at first; for a very narrow income has a tendency to contract the mind, and sour the temper. Those who can barely live, and who live perforce in a very small, and generally very inferior, society, may well be illiberal14 and cross. This does not apply, however, to Miss Bates; she is only too good natured and too silly to suit me; but, in general, she is very much to the taste of every body, though single and though poor. Poverty certainly has not contracted her mind: I really believe, if she had only a shilling in the world, she would be very likely to give away sixpence of it; and nobody is afraid of her: that is a great charm.'
`Dear me! but what shall you do? how shall you employ yourself when you grow old?'
`If I know myself, Harriet, mine is an active, busy mind, with a great many independent resources; and I do not perceive why I should be more in want of employment at forty or fifty than one-and-twenty. Woman's usual occupations of hand and mind will be as open to me then as they are now; or with no important variation. If I draw less, I shall read more; if I give up music, I shall take to carpet-work. And as for objects of interest, objects for the affections, which is in truth the great point of inferiority, the want of which is really the great evil to be avoided in not marrying, I shall be very well off, with all the children of a sister I love so much, to care about. There will be enough of them, in all probability, to supply every sort of sensation that declining life can need. There will be enough for every hope and every fear; and though my attachment15 to none can equal that of a parent, it suits my ideas of comfort better than what is warmer and blinder. My nephews and nieces! - I shall often have a niece with me.'
`Do you know Miss Bates's niece? That is, I know you must have seen her a hundred times - but are you acquainted?'
`Oh! yes; we are always forced to be acquainted whenever she comes to Highbury. By the bye, that is almost enough to put one out of conceit16 with a niece. Heaven forbid! at least, that I should ever bore people half so much about all the Knightleys together, as she does about Jane Fairfax. One is sick of the very name of Jane Fairfax. Every letter from her is read forty times over; her compliments to all friends go round and round again; and if she does but send her aunt the pattern of a stomacher, or knit a pair of garters for her grandmother, one hears of nothing else for a month. I wish Jane Fairfax very well; but she tires me to death.'
They were now approaching the cottage, and all idle topics were superseded17. Emma was very compassionate18; and the distresses20 of the poor were as sure of relief from her personal attention and kindness, her counsel and her patience, as from her purse. She understood their ways, could allow for their ignorance and their temptations, had no romantic expectations of extraordinary virtue21 from those for whom education had done so little; entered into their troubles with ready sympathy, and always gave her assistance with as much intelligence as good-will. In the present instance, it was sickness and poverty together which she came to visit; and after remaining there as long as she could give comfort or advice, she quitted the cottage with such an impression of the scene as made her say to Harriet, as they walked away,
`These are the sights, Harriet, to do one good. How trifling22 they make every thing else appear! - I feel now as if I could think of nothing but these poor creatures all the rest of the day; and yet, who can say how soon it may all vanish from my mind?'
`Very true,' said Harriet. `Poor creatures! one can think of nothing else.'
`And really, I do not think the impression will soon be over,' said Emma, as she crossed the low hedge, and tottering23 footstep which ended the narrow, slippery path through the cottage garden, and brought them into the lane again. `I do not think it will,' stopping to look once more at all the outward wretchedness of the place, and recall the still greater within.
`Oh! dear, no,' said her companion.
They walked on. The lane made a slight bend; and when that bend was passed, Mr. Elton was immediately in sight; and so near as to give Emma time only to say farther,
`Ah! Harriet, here comes a very sudden trial of our stability in good thoughts. Well, (smiling,) I hope it may be allowed that if compassion19 has produced exertion24 and relief to the sufferers, it has done all that is truly important. If we feel for the wretched, enough to do all we can for them, the rest is empty sympathy, only distressing25 to ourselves.'
Harriet could just answer, `Oh! dear, yes,' before the gentleman joined them. The wants and sufferings of the poor family, however, were the first subject on meeting. He had been going to call on them. His visit he would now defer26; but they had a very interesting parley27 about what could be done and should be done. Mr. Elton then turned back to accompany them.
`To fall in with each other on such an errand as this,' thought Emma; `to meet in a charitable scheme; this will bring a great increase of love on each side. I should not wonder if it were to bring on the declaration. It must, if I were not here. I wish I were anywhere else.'
Anxious to separate herself from them as far as she could, she soon afterwards took possession of a narrow footpath28, a little raised on one side of the lane, leaving them together in the main road. But she had not been there two minutes when she found that Harriet's habits of dependence29 and imitation were bringing her up too, and that, in short, they would both be soon after her. This would not do; she immediately stopped, under pretence of having some alteration30 to make in the lacing of her half-boot, and stooping down in complete occupation of the footpath, begged them to have the goodness to walk on, and she would follow in half a minute. They did as they were desired; and by the time she judged it reasonable to have done with her boot, she had the comfort of farther delay in her power, being overtaken by a child from the cottage, setting out, according to orders, with her pitcher31, to fetch broth32 from Hartfield. To walk by the side of this child, and talk to and question her, was the most natural thing in the world, or would have been the most natural, had she been acting33 just then without design; and by this means the others were still able to keep ahead, without any obligation of waiting for her. She gained on them, however, involuntarily: the child's pace was quick, and theirs rather slow; and she was the more concerned at it, from their being evidently in a conversation which interested them. Mr. Elton was speaking with animation34, Harriet listening with a very pleased attention; and Emma, having sent the child on, was beginning to think how she might draw back a little more, when they both looked around, and she was obliged to join them.
Mr. Elton was still talking, still engaged in some interesting detail; and Emma experienced some disappointment when she found that he was only giving his fair companion an account of the yesterday's party at his friend Cole's, and that she was come in herself for the Stilton cheese, the north Wiltshire, the butter, the cellery, the beet-root, and all the dessert.
`This would soon have led to something better, of course,' was her consoling reflection; `any thing interests between those who love; and any thing will serve as introduction to what is near the heart. If I could but have kept longer away!'
They now walked on together quietly, till within view of the vicarage pales, when a sudden resolution, of at least getting Harriet into the house, made her again find something very much amiss about her boot, and fall behind to arrange it once more. She then broke the lace off short, and dexterously35 throwing it into a ditch, was presently obliged to entreat36 them to stop, and acknowledged her inability to put herself to rights so as to be able to walk home in tolerable comfort.
`Part of my lace is gone,' said she, `and I do not know how I am to contrive. I really am a most troublesome companion to you both, but I hope I am not often so ill-equipped. Mr. Elton, I must beg leave to stop at your house, and ask your housekeeper for a bit of ribband or string, or any thing just to keep my boot on.'
Mr. Elton looked all happiness at this proposition; and nothing could exceed his alertness and attention in conducting them into his house and endeavouring to make every thing appear to advantage. The room they were taken into was the one he chiefly occupied, and looking forwards; behind it was another with which it immediately communicated; the door between them was open, and Emma passed into it with the housekeeper to receive her assistance in the most comfortable manner. She was obliged to leave the door ajar as she found it; but she fully37 intended that Mr. Elton should close it. It was not closed, however, it still remained ajar; but by engaging the housekeeper in incessant38 conversation, she hoped to make it practicable for him to chuse his own subject in the adjoining room. For ten minutes she could hear nothing but herself. It could be protracted39 no longer. She was then obliged to be finished, and make her appearance.
The lovers were standing40 together at one of the windows. It had a most favourable41 aspect; and, for half a minute, Emma felt the glory of having schemed successfully. But it would not do; he had not come to the point. He had been most agreeable, most delightful42; he had told Harriet that he had seen them go by, and had purposely followed them; other little gallantries and allusions43 had been dropt, but nothing serious.
`Cautious, very cautious,' thought Emma; `he advances inch by inch, and will hazard nothing till he believes himself secure.'
Still, however, though every thing had not been accomplished44 by her ingenious device, she could not but flatter herself that it had been the occasion of much present enjoyment45 to both, and must be leading them forward to the great event.
虽然眼下已是十二月中旬，可天气还不是太冷，并没影响两位小姐照常出门。第二天，爱玛出于慈善动机，去看望离海伯里不远的一户贫病交加的人家。
去那孤立的小屋，要路经牧师住宅巷，而这牧师住宅巷与海伯里虽不算整齐但颇为宽阔的主大街成直角相交。另外还可以断定，埃尔顿先生的牧师住宅就坐落在这条巷子里。从巷口进去，先见到几座简陋的小屋，再往里走进大约四分之一英里，就是那牧师住宅。这是一座陈旧的、算不上很好的房子，几乎紧靠着街。这房子从位置上看并没什么可取之处，但却被现今的主人好生修缮了一番，因此，两位朋友走过时免不了要放慢脚步，仔细端量几眼。爱玛说： “这不是嘛。过不了多久，你会带着你的谜语集子上这儿来。”哈丽特则说： “哦！多好的房子啊！多么漂亮啊！看那黄窗帘，纳什小姐就喜欢这样的窗帘。”
“我如今不常走这条路了，”两人继续往前走时，爱玛说道。“不过，以后可是非来不可啦，渐渐地，我对海伯里这一带的树篱、大门、池塘和截头树，就会了若指掌了。”
爱玛发现，哈丽特从未进过牧师住宅，因而显得极其好奇，就想进去看看。瞧瞧她那神色，琢磨一下她的心态，爱玛觉得她对牧师住宅的好奇，就像埃尔顿先生认为她聪明伶俐一样，都是爱情的明证。
“我们要是能设法进去就好了，”她说。“可惜我找不到个说得过去的借口。我不需要向他的女管家打听哪个用人的情况——我父亲也没有托我带信儿。”
她冥思苦索，还是想不出什么计策。两人沉默了一阵，哈丽特随即说道：
“伍德豪斯小姐，我真感到奇怪，你居然没有结婚，也不打算结婚呀！你白长得这么迷人啦！”
爱玛哈哈一笑，答道：
“哈丽特，我长得迷人还不足以促成我结婚，我得觉得别人迷人才行——至少得有一个吧。我不仅现在不想结婚，而且以后也不打算结婚。”
“哟！你说得容易，我才不相信呢。”
“我得见到一个比我迄今见到的强得多的人，才会动心。你知道，埃尔顿先生嘛，”这时镇定了一下自己的情绪，“我是看不上的。我可不愿意找这样的人。我宁愿谁也别来打扰我，我的日子过得十分称心。我要是结了婚，肯定会后悔的。”
“天哪！真是奇怪，一个女人会说出这种话来！”
“我不具备女人常有的结婚动机。我要是当真爱上了谁，那是另外一码事！可我从未爱上什么人，我不善于谈情说爱，没有这个天性，我看我以后也不会爱上什么人。既然没有爱上什么人，要改变这种状况当然是愚蠢的。我一不需要财产，二不愁没事干，三不怕别人看不起。我相信，结了婚的女人给丈夫做家庭主妇，很少有像我在哈特菲尔德这样当家做主的，我永远不会受到这样的疼爱，受到这样的器重，别的男人很难像我父亲那样，处处宠着我，事事顺着我。”
“可你最后要成为像贝茨小姐那样的老姑娘啊！”
“哈丽特，你只能搬出这样的凄惨景象来吓唬我。我要是觉得我会像贝茨小姐那样！那么傻里傻气——那么心满意得——那么嬉皮笑脸——那么枯燥乏味——那么不分皂白、不辨好歹——一听到周围的人有什么事，就要到处说三道四，要是这样的话，那我明天就结婚。可是跟你私下说说，我相信我们俩除了未婚以外，决不会有其他共同之处。”
“可你仍然要变成个老姑娘啊！那有多可怕呀！”
“不要担心，哈丽特，我不会变成个穷老婆子。对于宽宏大量的公众来说，只有贫穷才能使独身者让人瞧不起！一个收入微薄的单身女人，肯定要变成一个荒唐可笑、令人讨厌的老姑娘，成为青年男女嘲弄的对象！可是一个有钱的单身女人，却总是十分体面，既聪明又讨人喜欢，比谁都不逊色。这话初听起来似乎有失公正，有悖常理，其实并非如此，因为收入微薄往往使人变得心胸狭窄，性情乖僻。那些只能勉强糊口、不得不生活在一个通常十分卑微的狭小圈子的人，很可能又狭隘又暴躁。不过，贝茨小姐并不属于这种情况。她脾气太好，脑瓜太笨，因而才不讨我喜欢。不过，总的说来，尽管她没有嫁人，又没有钱，她倒挺讨众人喜欢。当然，贫穷并没有使她变得心胸狭窄。我确信，她若是只有一个先令的家当，那她很可能把其中六便士分给别人。谁也不害怕她，这是她讨人喜欢的一个重要原因。”
“天哪！那你可怎么办啊？你老了以后可怎么办啊？”
“哈丽特，如果说我还了解自己的话，我是个心灵活泛、爱动脑筋的人，自有许许多多的排遣办法。我搞不明白，我到了四五十岁怎么就会比二十一岁时还要空闲。女人平日用眼、用手、用脑做的事情，到那时我还能照样做，就像现在一样，事情不会发生多大的变化。我要是画画少了，就多看些书；不弹琴唱歌了，就编织地毯。至于说个人爱好和感情寄托，这确实是下等人的主要问题，这方面的缺欠危害极大，不结婚的人应该极力避免，可是我却没有关系，我非常喜爱我姐姐的孩子，我可以照料他们。我姐姐孩子多，完全可以给我带来晚年所需要的种种情趣，既让你抱着这样那样的希望，又让你担着这样那样的心。虽然我对孩子的疼爱比不上做妈妈的，但是使我感到欣慰的是，这比那种热烈而盲目的宠爱来得好。我的外甥、外甥女啊！我要让一个外甥女长年陪着我。”
“你认识贝茨小姐的外甥女吗？你一定见过她上百次了，可是你们熟悉吗？”
“哦！熟悉。她每次来到海伯里，我们不熟悉也得熟悉。顺便说一句，这简直可以让人对外甥女失去好感。但愿别出这样的事儿！至少我不会把奈特利家的孩子宠得惹人厌烦，丝毫不像贝茨小姐那样，因为宠爱简·费尔法克斯，而惹得人家厌烦。大家一听到简-费尔法克斯的名字，就会感到腻烦。她的每封来信都要从头到尾念上四十遍，她对每个朋友的问候都要转告一次又一次。哪怕她给姨妈寄来一个衬胸式样，或是给外祖母织了两根袜带，那也会挂在嘴上念叨一个月。我祝福简·费尔法克斯，但她让我厌烦死了。”
这时眼看快到小屋了，两人便停止了闲谈。爱玛心地慈善，穷人有了难处，她不仅给以亲切关怀，出主意想办法，不厌其烦，而且还解囊相助。她了解他们的习性，能体谅他们的愚昧无知和所受诱惑，鉴于他们没受过什么教育，也不幻想他们会有什么异乎寻常的美德。她对他们的困苦充满了同情，总是怀着一片善心，很有见识地给以帮助。这一次，她来看望一户贫病交加的人家，她好生劝慰了一番之后，便走出了小屋，边走边对哈丽特谈起了她触景生情的感受： “哈丽特，看看这些情景对人有好处。与这些境况相比，别的事情是多么微不足道啊！我现在觉得，除了这些可怜的人儿，今天我没有心思想别的啦。不过，谁说得上这情景要过多久才在我心里完全消失呢？”
“的确也是，”哈丽特说。“可怜的人儿！让人没有心思想别的事儿。”
“说真的，我看这滋味一下子还打消不了，”爱玛一边说一边穿过矮树篱，走下小屋花园里那条又窄又滑的小路尽头的摇摇晃晃的踏板，又来到巷子里。“我看是打消不了啦，”说着停下脚，又看了看那座凄惨的房子，想了想里面更加凄惨的人。
“唉！是打消不了啊，”她的同伴说。
两人往前走着。巷子稍微转了个弯，过了这个弯，猛然见到了埃尔顿先生。因为离得太近，爱玛只来得及说了下面几句话： “哦！哈丽特，我们刚说过只会想着那家人，没有心思想别的事儿，这下可遇上了突如其来的考验。嗯，”说着笑了笑，“但愿可以这样说：同情要是能使受苦的人受到鼓舞和安慰，那就起到了应有的作用。只要我们同情受苦的人，为他们做些力所能及的事，其他的都是空头人情，只会惹得我们自己苦恼。”
哈丽特刚说了一声“嗨！可不是嘛，”埃尔顿先生就走过来了。他们相见后的第一个话题，还是这家人如何贫困，如何受苦。埃尔顿先生本来是来看望他们的，现在只好改日再说。不过，三人对能做什么、该做什么，还是兴致勃勃地议论了一番。随后，埃尔顿先生便陪着她们往回走。
“两人出来行善碰到了一起，”爱玛心想，“在执行这样的使命中坠人了情网，这会大大加深双方的情意。两人说不定要趁机表白衷心。我要是不在场的话，他们肯定要表白的。我要是不在场该有多好。”
她急于想离他们远些，便迅即走上巷子一边微微凸起的狭窄的人行道，让他们俩走在大路上。但是，她在人行道上还没走上两分钟，便发现哈丽特早已养成小鸟依人、紧随不舍的习惯，转眼间就跟了上来，还有那另一个人，势必也会马上跟踵而至。这可不行。她立刻收住脚步，假装要重新系一系鞋带，便弯下腰挡住人行道，叫他们往前走，她随后赶上去。他们照她的意思办了。等她觉得鞋带该系好了，她又欣然找到了进一步拖延的机会，因为小屋里有个女孩遵照她的吩咐，提着壶去哈特菲尔德取肉汤，这时赶上了她。跟这小孩并排走着，跟她说说话，问些问题，这是再自然不过的事情，即使她当时并不存心拖延时间，那也是再自然不过的事情。这样一来，那另外两人还得在前面走着，完全用不着等她。然而，她情不由己地离他们越来越近。原来，那小女孩脚步迈得快，他们两个却走得慢，而使爱玛越发着急的是，那两个人显然谈得正投机。埃尔顿先生兴致勃勃地谈着，哈丽特喜行于色地听着。爱玛叫那女孩先走，刚想琢磨如何落得远些，不料那两人突然掉过头来，她只得走上前去。
埃尔顿先生还在讲，讲述一个有趣的细节。爱玛发觉，他跟他那个漂亮的伙伴述说昨天在他的朋友科尔家吃饭的情景，她恰好听见他说起吃斯提耳顿干酪（译注：斯提耳顿干酪：系英国一种有青霉的优质白乳酪）、北威尔特乳酪、黄油、芹菜、甜菜根和种种甜食。
“这自然会马上引出好事儿来，”这是爱玛聊以自慰的想法。“恋人之间热衷的事情，可以导致心心相印的事情。我要是能多避开他们一会儿就好啦！”
三人默默地往前走着，终于能看见牧师住宅的围篱了。蓦然间，爱玛灵机一动，觉得至少可以把哈丽特拉进牧师住宅。于是，她又假装鞋带出了问题，待在后面重新系扎。她猛地一下把鞋带拉断，顺手扔进水沟，随即便叫他们两个停一停，说她实在没有办法，难以凑合着走回家。
“我的鞋带断了，”她说，“不知道该怎么办。我真成了你们的累赘了，不过我想我并非常出这种事。埃尔顿先生，我只得要求在贵府歇一歇，向你的女管家要一节丝带或细绳之类的东西，把靴子系好。”
埃尔顿先生一听这话，不由得喜笑颜开。他小心翼翼、毕恭毕敬地把两位小姐领进房，尽量把处处搞得妥妥帖帖。他把她们带进他常住的那间屋子。这屋子朝着大门，后面还有一间屋子，跟它直接相连。那门开着，爱玛跟女管家走进后屋，欣欣然地接受她的帮助。她只得让门照旧开着，不过她满心以为埃尔顿先生会把它关上。可是门并未关上，还依然开着。但她与女管家不停地交谈，实指望埃尔顿先生可以在隔壁房间随意说话。足有十分钟工夫，她什么声音也听不到，只听见她自己在说话。这种局面再也持续不下去了。她只得赶紧办完事，走进了前屋。
两个情人一道站在一个窗户前。这是个极好的迹象，一时间，爱玛自鸣得意地觉得她的计谋得逞了。但是，还不能沾沾自喜，埃尔顿先生还没有谈到要害问题。他非常和蔼，非常可爱，告诉哈丽特说，他看见她们俩走过去了，便有意跟在后面。他还说了些别的讨好的话，但却没有认真的表示。
“小心翼翼，太小心翼翼了，”爱玛心想。“他稳打稳扎，没有把握决不贸然行事。”
然而，尽管她的妙计没有成功，但她仍然认为，这次接触使得两人满心欢喜，以后势必会成就那大事。
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