" But I'll make you an offer in sober earnest: would you care to sell your bit of a mine up there" ?

“但我会严肃认真地向你开价：你愿意卖掉你在上面的那块矿山吗” ？

But directly Nikolai Artemyevitch went out—and that happened pretty often, Augustina Christianovna had come back in sober earnest—Elena went to her mother, and a long time her mother gazed at her in silence and in tears.

但是，尼古拉·阿尔捷米耶维奇一出去——这种事经常发生，奥古斯丁娜·克里斯蒂娜诺夫娜严肃认真地回来了——埃琳娜就去找她母亲，她母亲默默地、含泪地注视了她良久。