原文
"Cousin Emily has only five boarders besides myself--four old ladies and
one young man. My right-hand neighbor is Mrs. Lilly. She is one of those
people who seem to take a gruesome pleasure in detailing all their many
aches and pains and sicknesses. You cannot mention any ailment but she
says, shaking her head, 'Ah, I know too well what that is'--and then you
get all the details. Jonas declares he once spoke of locomotor ataxia in
hearing and she said she knew too well what that was. She suffered from
it for ten years and was finally cured by a traveling doctor.
語彙など
- boarder:下宿人
- gruesome:身の毛もよだつ
- aches and pains:筋肉と節々の痛み
- ailment:病気
- locomotor ataxia:脊髄癆