原文
"Of . . . of Mirabel Cotton's uncle," sobbed Dora. "Mirabel Cotton told me
all about her family today in school. Nearly everybody in her family has
died . . . all her grandfathers and grandmothers and ever so many uncles
and aunts. They have a habit of dying, Mirabel says. Mirabel's awful
proud of having so many dead relations, and she told me what they all
died of, and what they said, and how they looked in their coffins. And
Mirabel says one of her uncles was seen walking around the house after
he was buried. Her mother saw him. I don't mind the rest so much but I
can't help thinking about that uncle."
語彙など
- sob:むせび泣きながら〜を言う
- ever so:非常に
- have a habit of:〜の性質を持つ
- relation:親族
- coffin:棺
- bury:埋葬する