原文
"Your picture of social triumphs is quite fascinating, Phil, but I'll
paint one to offset it. I'm going home to an old country farmhouse, once
green, rather faded now, set among leafless apple orchards. There is a
brook below and a December fir wood beyond, where I've heard harps swept
by the fingers of rain and wind. There is a pond nearby that will be
gray and brooding now. There will be two oldish ladies in the house,
one tall and thin, one short and fat; and there will be two twins, one
a perfect model, the other what Mrs. Lynde calls a 'holy terror.' There
will be a little room upstairs over the porch, where old dreams hang
thick, and a big, fat, glorious feather bed which will almost seem the
height of luxury after a boardinghouse mattress. How do you like my
picture, Phil?"
語彙など
- triumph:勝利,功績
- fascinate:魅する
- offset:相殺する
- faded:色あせた
- leafless:落葉した
- apple orchard:リンゴ園
- harp:ハープ
- sweep:サッと通過する
- brood:じっと考える
- hang:さまよう
- glorious:荘厳な
- feather bed:羽毛布団
- luxury:贅沢な
- boardinghouse:賄い付き下宿屋
- mattress:マットレス