原文
"What can I do for you this evening, Mr. Cuthbert?" Miss Lucilla Harris
inquired, briskly and ingratiatingly, tapping the counter with both
hands.
"Have you any--any--any--well now, say any garden rakes?" stammered Matthew.
Miss Harris looked somewhat surprised, as well she might, to hear a man inquiring for garden rakes in the middle of December.
"I believe we have one or two left over," she said, "but they're upstairs in the lumber room. I'll go and see." During her absence Matthew collected his scattered senses for another effort.
語彙など
- inquire:尋ねる
- briskly:キビキビと
- ingratiatingly:取り入るように
- tap:〜を軽くたたく
- counter:カウンター,売り台
- rake:くま手
- stammer:どもる
- somewhat:少し
- upstairs:上階の
- lumber room:物置き部屋
- absence:不在
- collect one's senses:気を落ち着ける
- scatter:散乱する