But the spiritless condition which this event threw her into was shortly relieved, and her mind opened again to the agitation of hope, by an article of news which then began to be in circulation. The housekeeper at Netherfield had received orders to prepare for the arrival of her master, who was coming down in a day or two, to shoot there for several weeks.
Mais la mélancolie ou l’avait plongée cet événement ne résista pas a la nouvelle qui commença bientôt a circuler dans le pays : la femme de charge de Netherfield avait, disait-on, reçu l’ordre de préparer la maison pour l’arrivée prochaine de son maître, qui, a l’occasion de la chasse, venait y passer quelques semaines.