原文
"Well now, I'm afraid I can't," said Matthew, who was getting a little
dizzy. He felt as he had once felt in his rash youth when another boy
had enticed him on the merry-go-round at a picnic.
"Well, whatever it was it must have been something nice because she was divinely beautiful. Have you ever imagined what it must feel like to be divinely beautiful?"
"Well now, no, I haven't," confessed Matthew ingenuously.
"I have, often. Which would you rather be if you had the choice--divinely beautiful or dazzlingly clever or angelically good?"
"Well now, I--I don't know exactly."
"Neither do I. I can never decide. But it doesn't make much real difference for it isn't likely I'll ever be either. It's certain I'll never be angelically good. Mrs. Spencer says--oh, Mr. Cuthbert! Oh, Mr. Cuthbert!! Oh, Mr. Cuthbert!!!"
語彙など
- dizzy:混乱した,目まいがする
- rash youth:向こう見ずな若者
- entice:そそのかす
- merry-go-round:メリーゴーラウンド,回転木馬
- divinely:神々しく
- confess:認める
- ingenuously:率直に
- dazzlingly:目もくらむほど
- angelically:天使のように
- make much difference:大きな違いを生む