原文
"Well, no; but young folks aren't always romantic either. Some of my
beaux certainly weren't. I used to laugh at them scandalous, poor boys.
There was Jim Elwood--he was always in a sort of day-dream--never seemed
to sense what was going on. He didn't wake up to the fact that I'd said
'no' till a year after I'd said it. When he did get married his wife
fell out of the sleigh one night when they were driving home from church
and he never missed her. Then there was Dan Winston. He knew too much.
He knew everything in this world and most of what is in the next. He
could give you an answer to any question, even if you asked him when the
Judgment Day was to be. Milton Edwards was real nice and I liked him but
I didn't marry him. For one thing, he took a week to get a joke through
his head, and for another he never asked me. Horatio Reeve was the most
interesting beau I ever had. But when he told a story he dressed it up
so that you couldn't see it for frills. I never could decide whether he
was lying or just letting his imagination run loose."
語彙など
- beau:男友達
- scandalous:あきれた
- sleigh:そり
- get a joke:冗談が分かる
- dress up:(話を)粉飾する
- run loose:自由に走る