よみうち英語Read the classics by typingNotes Scene 19: Her Belief
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Mary defends Hosmer when Holmes suggests that she has been badly treated. She believes his warning on the wedding morning showed that he expected some danger. In her view, the feared calamity must have occurred and prevented him from reaching the church.
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- は
- は marks the topic of the sentence and can also contrast it with another topic. It is written ha but normally pronounced wa.
- が
- が marks the grammatical subject or introduces newly focused information. It can also connect clauses with a mild contrast.
- を
- を marks the direct object of a verb. With a movement verb, it can instead mark the route or place being crossed.
- に
- に can mark a destination, target, time, recipient, purpose, or resulting state. The predicate shows its role here.
Full text: original English and Japanese translation
"It seems to me that you have been very shamefully treated," said Holmes.
「あなたは、たいへんひどい仕打ちを受けたように思えます」とホームズは言った。
"Oh, no, sir! He was too good and kind to leave me so. Why, all the morning he was saying to me that, whatever happened, I was to be true; and that even if something quite unforeseen occurred to separate us, I was always to remember that I was pledged to him, and that he would claim his pledge sooner or later. It seemed strange talk for a wedding-morning, but what has happened since gives a meaning to it."
「いいえ、そんなことはありません。私をあんなふうに置き去りにするには、あの方はあまりにも親切で優しい方でした。だって、あの朝はずっと、何があっても忠実でいるように、たとえまったく思いがけないことが起きて二人が引き離されても、彼に誓いを立てたことをいつも忘れずにいてほしい、いつか必ずその誓いを果たしてもらうから、と私に言っていたんです。結婚式の朝にしては変な話に思えましたが、その後で起きたことを考えると意味が分かります」
"Most certainly it does. Your own opinion is, then, that some unforeseen catastrophe has occurred to him?"
「確かに、そうですね。では、あなたご自身は、何か予期しない災難が彼に降りかかったと考えているのですね」
"Yes, sir. I believe that he foresaw some danger, or else he would not have talked so. And then I think that what he foresaw happened."
「ええ、そうです。彼は何かの危険を予感していたのだと思います。そうでなければ、あのように話したはずがありません。それで、彼が予感していたことが実際に起きたのだと思います」