原文
"My left-hand neighbor at the table is Mrs. Phinney. She always speaks
with a wailing, dolorous voice--you are nervously expecting her to burst
into tears every moment. She gives you the impression that life to her
is indeed a vale of tears, and that a smile, never to speak of a laugh,
is a frivolity truly reprehensible. She has a worse opinion of me than
Aunt Jamesina, and she doesn't love me hard to atone for it, as Aunty J.
does, either.
語彙など
- wailing:嘆きの
- dolorous:痛ましい
- burst into tears:ドッと泣き出す
- vale:苦悩の世界,現世
- frivolity:軽薄
- reprehensible:とがむべき
- atone for:〜の償いをする