原文
"Oh, don't cast up the follies of my youth to me. I shall be poor as
gaily as I've been rich. You'll see. I'm going to learn how to cook
and make over dresses. I've learned how to market since I've lived
at Patty's Place; and once I taught a Sunday School class for a whole
summer. Aunt Jamesina says I'll ruin Jo's career if I marry him. But
I won't. I know I haven't much sense or sobriety, but I've got what is
ever so much better--the knack of making people like me. There is a
man in Bolingbroke who lisps and always testifies in prayer-meeting.
He says, 'If you can't thine like an electric thtar thine like a
candlethtick.' I'll be Jo's little candlestick."
語彙など
- cast up:吐く
- folly:愚行
- gaily:愉快に
- make over:仕立て直す
- market:市場で売買する
- ruin:台無しになる
- sense:良識,分別
- sobriety:節度
- ever so much:非常に
- knack:特技
- lisp:舌足らずに話す
- testify:証言する
- prayer meeting:祈祷会
- thine:shine
- thtar:star(?)
- candlethtick:candlestick(?)