But they were all well mannered, beautifully tailored, and they evidently admired her, so it mattered little to Scarlett that they chose to live utterly in the present.

不过他们都衣着考究，文质彬彬，显然对她十殷勤，而她觉得无所谓。

The task done, he might be content to let his sons pay for the pilotage; and it mattered little to his success whether they paid it with their lives wasted on battle-fields or in misdirected energies and lost opportunity.

任务完成后，他可能会满足于让他的儿子支付引航费；他们是在战场上浪费生命，还是在错误的精力和失去的机会中付出代价，对他的成功都没有什么影响。