1. Rivers 집안은 이 지역 유지로, Moor house는 거의 2백년 넘는 역사를 가지고 있는 집이었지요.
아버지 Rivers는 평범한 사람이었지만 고인이된 안주인은 학식이 풍부했고, 자녀들 또한 어머니를
닮아 배움을 즐겼다고 합니다.
그런데 아버지가 믿고 투자했던 사람이 파산을 하여 거의 전재산을 잃게 되면서
Mary와 Diana는 집을 떠나 가정교사가 되는 상황에 이르렀지요.

2. 가난한 집안의 소녀들을 위한 학교의 선생님이 되어달라고 합니다.

3. St.John이나 Mary, Diana는 이 외삼촌 John을 본 적도 없지만
이 독신자 외삼촌의 가장 가까운 혈육이었네요.
거의 전 재산을 잃은 St.Johnd의 아버지는 이 외삼촌과 심하게 다툰 후 인연을 끊고 살고 있었습니다만,
언젠가는 자식들이 이 외삼촌의 재산을 어느 정도 물려받아
어려운 상황을 회복하게 될 것이라 기대하고 있었지요.
하지만 이 외삼촌은 자신의 전 재산을 다른 사람에게 남기고, Rivers 남매에게는
달랑 추모 반지를 살 돈 몇푼만을 남겼다는 사실을 알고 씁쓸해 합니다.

4. Rosamond가 missionary wife가 될 만한 자질을 갖추지 않았기 때문이라 하네요.

5. Jane의 외삼촌이 Jane에게 2만불을 상속했다는 소식을 전하지요.

6. Jane의 외삼촌이, St. John의 외삼촌과 동일 인물이며,
이로써 Jane과 St.John은 서로 사촌간이 된다는 사실을 알게되네요.
Jane은 이 사실을 알고 바로 상속받은 재산을 넷이 똑같이 나누어 가지자고 제안합니다.

1. Old Mr Rivers was a plain man enough, but a gentleman, and of as ancient a family as could be found. The owd maister was like other folk stark mad shooting and farming and sich like. The mistress was a great reader, and studied a deal; and the bairns had taken after her. Mr St John would go to college and be a parson; and the girl, as soon as they left school, would seek places as governesses. As he was now not rich enough to give them fortunes, they must provide for themselves.

2. Mr Rivers means now to open a second school for girls. He has hired a building for the purpose, with a cottage of two rooms attached to it for the mistress's house. Her salary will be thirty pounds a year: her house is already furnished very simply but sufficiently. He offered her this mistress.

3. Their father and their uncle John quarrelled long ago. It was by his advice that their father risked most of his property in the speculation that ruined him. He was never married, and had no near kindred but themselves and one other person, not more closely related than they. Their father always cherished the idea that he would atone for his error by leaving his possessions to them. He has bequeathed every penny to the other relation, with the exception of thirty guineas, to be divided between St John, Diana and Mary Rivers, for the purchase of three mourning rings.

4. While something in him is acutely sensible to her charms, something else is as deeply impressed with her defects: they are such that she could sympathise in nothing. He aspired to cooperate in nothing he undertook.

5. Her uncle, Mr Eyre  of Madeira, is dead; that he has left her all his property, and that she is now rich.

6. St John, Diana, and Mary are uncle John's sister's children, as Jane is his brother's child. Then, they are her cousins.

Write to Diana and Mary tomorrow... Twenty thousand pounds, the sum in question, divided equally between the nephew and three n***es of their uncle, will give five thousand to each. What she want is, that he should write to his sisters and tell them of the fortune that has accrued to them.  

잠시 긴장을 풀었더니 이 미션은 읽지도 못하고 있네요^^;;;;

주말에 챙겨 읽어야 겠어요~~

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제 숨은 능력을 알아주시구... 감사합니당...ㅎㅎ

But...

제게 이런 능력이 숨어있음 얼마나 좋았겠어요...

말씀대로 절묘하게 맞아떨어진게죠...^^;

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