原文
"The weather has been real cold," she wrote, "so I let the cats sleep
in the house--Rusty and Joseph on the sofa in the living-room, and the
Sarah-cat on the foot of my bed. It's real company to hear her purring
when I wake up in the night and think of my poor daughter in the foreign
field. If it was anywhere but in India I wouldn't worry, but they say
the snakes out there are terrible. It takes all the Sarah-cats's purring
to drive away the thought of those snakes. I have enough faith for
everything but the snakes. I can't think why Providence ever made them.
Sometimes I don't think He did. I'm inclined to believe the Old Harry
had a hand in making THEM."
語彙など
- company:同伴
- purr:のどを鳴らす
- faith:信頼
- providence:神意
- inclined:〜したい気がする
- old Harry:悪魔