The impertinence of the Eltons, which for a few minutes had threatened to ruin the rest of her evening, had been the occasion of some of its highest satisfactions;
埃尔顿夫妇的傲慢无礼，昨晚有一阵差一点扫尽她的兴致，后来却导致了令人极其满意的结果。
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He must know that the Woodhouses had been settled for several generations at Hartfield, the younger branch of a very ancient family - and that the Eltons were nobody.