When to these recollections was added the development of Wickham's character, it may be easily believed that the happy spirits which had seldom been depressed before, were now so much affected as to make it almost impossible for her to appear tolerably cheerful.
Toutes ces réflexions auxquelles venait s’ajouter le désappointement causé par la révélation du véritable caractere de Mr. Wickham ne laissaient pas d’assombrir son esprit ordinairement si enjoué, et il lui fallait faire effort pour conserver en public son air de gaieté.