免得担那么大的风险，得罪了你的女施主。
You had better neglect your relations, than run the risk of offending your patroness.
他说：“这真是完全出于我意料之外，我竟然发现这屋子里有一位是我女施主的至亲。”
"I have found out," said he, "by a singular accident, that there is now in the room a near relation of my patroness."
他本来一心要让这些好奇的宾客们去风光一下他那女施主的堂皇气派，看看老夫人对待他们夫妇俩多么礼貌周全。
The power of displaying the grandeur of his patroness to his wondering visitors, and of letting them see her civility towards himself and his wife, was exactly what he had wished for;
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