Sense and Sensibility, Jane Austen

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by Jane Austen · 1775–1817

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"Sense and Sensibility" by Jane Austen is a novel published in 1811. When the Dashwood sisters are forced from their family estate into reduced circumstances, they face romantic trials that test their contrasting natures. Sensible Elinor guards her feelings while passionate Marianne wears her heart openly. Both encounter love, disappointment, and betrayal as suitors prove honorable or false. Through heartbreak and revelation, the sisters must navigate society's demands while discovering what truly matters in matters of the heart.

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Read time
540 min
Words
118,851
Chapters
51
Paragraphs
1,861
Price
Free
  • Domestic fiction
  • England -- Fiction
  • England -- Social life and customs -- 19th century -- Fiction
  • Gentry -- England -- Fiction
  • Inheritance and succession -- Fiction
  • Love stories
  • Mate selection -- Fiction
  • Regency fiction
Sense and Sensibility

One evening in particular, about a week after Colonel Brandon left the country, his heart seemed more than usually open to every feeling of attachment to the objects around him;

Una tarde en particular, alrededor de una semana después de que el coronel Brandon dejara el país, su corazón parecía más abierto de lo habitual a cada sentimiento de afecto por los objetos que lo rodeaban;

and on Mrs. Dashwood’s happening to mention her design of improving the cottage in the spring, he warmly opposed every alteration of a place which affection had established as perfect with him.

y cuando la señora Dashwood mencionó casualmente su intención de mejorar la cabaña en primavera, se opuso con calor a toda alteración de un lugar que el afecto había establecido como perfecto para él.

“What!”

«¡Qué!», exclamó—.

he exclaimed—“Improve this dear cottage!

«¿Mejorar esta querida cabaña?

No. That I will never consent to.

No. Eso nunca lo consentiré.

Not a stone must be added to its walls, not an inch to its size, if my feelings are regarded.”

No se debe añadir ni una piedra a sus muros, ni una pulgada a su tamaño, si se tienen en cuenta mis sentimientos».

“Do not be alarmed,” said Miss Dashwood, “nothing of the kind will be done; for my mother will never have money enough to attempt it.”

«No se alarme», dijo la señorita Dashwood, «no se hará nada de eso; porque mi madre nunca tendrá suficiente dinero para intentarlo».

“I am heartily glad of it,” he cried.

«Me alegra mucho», gritó él.

“May she always be poor, if she can employ her riches no better.”

«Que siempre sea pobre, si no puede emplear sus riquezas de mejor manera».

“Thank you, Willoughby.

«Gracias, Willoughby.

But you may be assured that I would not sacrifice one sentiment of local attachment of yours, or of any one whom I loved, for all the improvements in the world.

Pero puede estar seguro de que no sacrificaría ni un solo sentimiento de apego local suyo, ni de nadie a quien amara, por todas las mejoras del mundo.

Depend upon it that whatever unemployed sum may remain, when I make up my accounts in the spring, I would even rather lay it uselessly by than dispose of it in a manner so painful to you.

Cuenten con que, cualquiera que sea la suma no empleada que quede, cuando haga mis cuentas en primavera, incluso preferiría guardarla inútilmente antes que disponerla de una manera tan dolorosa para usted.

But are you really so attached to this place as to see no defect in it?”

Pero, ¿está realmente tan apegado a este lugar como para no ver ningún defecto en él?»

“I am,” said he.

«Lo estoy», dijo él.

“To me it is faultless.

«Para mí es impecable.

Nay, more, I consider it as the only form of building in which happiness is attainable, and were I rich enough I would instantly pull Combe down, and build it up again in the exact plan of this cottage.”

Más aún, lo considero como la única forma de construcción en la que la felicidad es alcanzable, y si fuera lo bastante rico, derribaría inmediatamente Combe y lo reconstruiría siguiendo exactamente el plano de esta cabaña».

About the author

Jane Austen1775–1817

Jane Austen was an English writer born in Steventon in 1775 and died in Winchester in 1817.

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Book details

Original language
English
Translation
Spanish, machine translation
Source text
Project Gutenberg #161
Licence
Public domain worldwide

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