Had Miss Bingley known what pain she was then giving her beloved friend, she undoubtedly would have refrained from the hint; but she had merely intended to discompose Elizabeth by bringing forward the idea of a man to whom she believed her partial, to make her betray a sensibility which might injure her in Darcy's opinion, and, perhaps, to remind the latter of all the follies and absurdities by which some part of her family were connected with that corps. Not a syllable had ever reached her of Miss Darcy's meditated elopement.
Si miss Bingley avait su la peine qu’elle infligeait a sa tres chere amie, elle se serait sans doute abstenue de cette insinuation, mais elle voulait simplement embarrasser Elizabeth par cette allusion a un homme pour lequel elle lui croyait une préférence, espérant qu’elle trahirait une émotion qui pourrait la desservir aux yeux de Darcy ; voulant aussi, peut-etre, rappeler a ce dernier les sottises et les absurdités commises par une partie de la famille Bennet a propos du régiment.