よみうち英語Read the classics by typingNotes Scene 17: Plans for a Wedding
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Hosmer proposes an early wedding before Windibank comes home and demands a solemn promise of loyalty from Mary. Although her mother approves, Mary feels uneasy about secrecy and sends a letter to her stepfather’s French office. The letter returns on the morning of the wedding.
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Full text: original English and Japanese translation
"Mr. Hosmer Angel came to the house again and proposed that we should marry before father came back. He was in dreadful earnest and made me swear, with my hands on the Testament, that whatever happened I would always be true to him. Mother said he was quite right to make me swear, and that it was a sign of his passion. Mother was all in his favour from the first and was even fonder of him than I was. Then, when they talked of marrying within the week, I began to ask about father; but they both said never to mind about father, but just to tell him afterwards, and mother said she would make it all right with him. I didn't quite like that, Mr. Holmes. It seemed funny that I should ask his leave, as he was only a few years older than me; but I didn't want to do anything on the sly, so I wrote to father at Bordeaux, where the company has its French offices, but the letter came back to me on the very morning of the wedding."
「エンジェルさんがまた家に来るようになって、父が戻る前に結婚しようと言い出したんです。恐ろしいほど真剣で、何があってもずっと彼に忠実でいると、新約聖書に両手を置いて私に誓わせました。母は、誓わせるのはもっともで、それだけ彼の愛情が深い証拠だと言いました。母は最初からすっかり彼の味方で、私以上に彼を気に入っていました。それで一週間以内に結婚しようという話になったとき、私は父のことを持ち出しました。でも二人とも、父のことは気にせず後で知らせればよいと言い、母は、自分が父にうまく話しておくと言いました。私はあまり気が進みませんでした、ホームズさん。父は私より数歳上なだけですから、許しを求めるのも変に思えました。でも、こそこそしたことはしたくなかったので、会社のフランスの事務所があるボルドーの父に手紙を書きました。ところが、その手紙が結婚式の朝、私のところに戻ってきたんです」
"It missed him, then?"
「では、行き違いになったのですね」
"Yes, sir; for he had started to England just before it arrived."
「ええ、そうです。手紙が届く直前に、父はイングランドへ発っていたんです」
"Ha! that was unfortunate. Your wedding was arranged, then, for the Friday. Was it to be in church?"
「なるほど、それはあいにくでした。それで、結婚式は金曜日の予定だったのですね。教会で行うはずでしたか」