His daughter's request, for such it might be considered, of being admitted into her family again before she set off for the North, received at first an absolute negative. But Jane and Elizabeth, who agreed in wishing, for the sake of their sister's feelings and consequence, that she should be noticed on her marriage by her parents, urged him so earnestly yet so rationally and so mildly, to receive her and her husband at Longbourn, as soon as they were married, that he was prevailed on to think as they thought, and act as they wished.
La demande que faisait Lydia d’etre admise a revoir sa famille avant son départ fut d’abord accueillie de la part de son pere par un refus péremptoire, mais Jane et Elizabeth désiraient vivement pour le bien, ainsi que pour la réputation de leur sour, qu’elle fut traitée moins durement, et elles presserent leur pere avec tant d’insistance, de douceur et de raison de recevoir les jeunes époux a Longbourn qu’il finit par se laisser persuader.