原文
"But I can't make up my mind yet which to marry," wrote Phil. "I do wish
you had come with me to decide for me. Some one will have to. When I saw
Alec my heart gave a great thump and I thought, 'He might be the right
one.' And then, when Alonzo came, thump went my heart again. So that's
no guide, though it should be, according to all the novels I've ever
read. Now, Anne, YOUR heart wouldn't thump for anybody but the genuine
Prince Charming, would it? There must be something radically wrong with
mine. But I'm having a perfectly gorgeous time. How I wish you were
here! It's snowing today, and I'm rapturous. I was so afraid we'd have
a green Christmas and I loathe them. You know, when Christmas is a dirty
grayey-browney affair, looking as if it had been left over a hundred
years ago and had been in soak ever since, it is called a GREEN
Christmas! Don't ask me why. As Lord Dundreary says, 'there are thome
thingth no fellow can underthtand.'
語彙など
- make up one's mind:心を決める
- thump:ゴツンという音
- radically:根本的に
- gorgeous:素晴らしい
- rapturous:有頂天の
- loathe:ひどく嫌う
- affair:代物
- in soak:浸されて