原文
"Well now, yes, there's one right below the house."
"Fancy. It's always been one of my dreams to live near a brook. I never expected I would, though. Dreams don't often come true, do they? Wouldn't it be nice if they did? But just now I feel pretty nearly perfectly happy. I can't feel exactly perfectly happy because--well, what color would you call this?"
She twitched one of her long glossy braids over her thin shoulder and held it up before Matthew's eyes. Matthew was not used to deciding on the tints of ladies' tresses, but in this case there couldn't be much doubt.
"It's red, ain't it?" he said.
The girl let the braid drop back with a sigh that seemed to come from her very toes and to exhale forth all the sorrows of the ages.
語彙など
- fancy:素敵な
- come true:実現する
- twitch:引っ張る
- glossy:つやつやした
- braid:お下げ髪
- be used to:慣れる
- decide on:〜を決める
- tresses:ふさふさした頭髪
- with a sigh:溜息をついて,溜息交じりに
- toe:つま先
- exhale:息を吐く
- forth:前へ
- of the ages:長い間の