アンの愛情 第二十四章

Chapter XXIV Enter Jonas(13)

原文
"Well, Jonas preached. And, by the time he had preached ten minutes, I felt so small and insignificant that I thought I must be invisible to the naked eye. Jonas never said a word about women and he never looked at me. But I realized then and there what a pitiful, frivolous, small-souled little butterfly I was, and how horribly different I must be from Jonas' ideal woman. SHE would be grand and strong and noble. He was so earnest and tender and true. He was everything a minister ought to be. I wondered how I could ever have thought him ugly--but he really is!--with those inspired eyes and that intellectual brow which the roughly-falling hair hid on week days.

語彙など
  • preach:説教する
  • invisible:目に見えない
  • naked eye:肉眼
  • then and there:その場で,直ちに
  • frivolous:取るに足らない
  • earnest:熱心な
  • tender:思いやりのある
  • inspired:霊感を受けた,見事な
  • brow:まゆ