Mansfield Park(曼斯菲尔德庄园)
Jane Austen
Chapter 1
About thirty years
ago Miss Maria Ward, of Huntingdon, with only seven thousand
pounds, had the good luck to captivate Sir Thomas Bertram, of
Mansfield Park, in the county of Northampton, and to be thereby
raised to the rank of a baronet's lady, with all the comforts and
consequences of an handsome house and large income. All Huntingdon
exclaimed on the greatness of the match, and her uncle, the lawyer,
himself, allowed her to be at least three thousand pounds short of
any equitable claim to it. She had two sisters to be benefited by
her elevation; and such of their acquaintance as thought Miss Ward
and Miss Frances quite as handsome as Miss Maria, did not scruple
to predict their marrying with almost equal advantage. But there
certainly are not so many men of large fortune in t…