二姐的婚事

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We were even going to buy a little country house with Uncle Jules's money. 我们甚至打算拿于勒叔叔的钱在乡下买栋小别墅。

My oldest sister was twenty-eight then, and the other twenty-six. 那会儿我大姐二十八岁，二姐二十六岁。

Neither was married, and that was a great sorrow to us all. 两人都还没嫁出去，这成了我们全家人的一大心病。

At last, a suitor appeared for my second sister: 终于，有人来追求我二姐了：

a clerk, not rich, but respectable. 是个小职员，虽然不算有钱，但为人很正派。

I have always been sure that it was Uncle Jules's letter, 我一直坚信，正是于勒叔叔的那封信，

shown to him one evening, 在某天晚上拿给他看过之后，

that made the young man stop hesitating and propose. 才让那个年轻人打消了犹豫，直接求了婚。

He was accepted at once. 家里立刻就答应了他。

And it was decided that after the wedding, 而且大家还定下来，办完婚礼后，

the whole family would take a trip to the island of Jersey. 全家一起去哲尔赛岛旅个游。

Sometimes a letter is worth more than the man who wrote it. 有时候，一封信的分量可比写信的人本人重多了。

For people like us, Jersey was the perfect trip. 对我们这种家庭来说，哲尔赛岛是再合适不过的去处了。

It wasn't far. 那儿离得不远。

You crossed a strip of sea on a steamer, 坐轮船穿过一小片海，

and suddenly, you were in a foreign land. 一转眼就到了外国的地界。