サウンドオブミュージック（１４３） ————————————【１４３】————————————————— When the submarine was christened, the heart of its commander was captured.Hers was the fairy-tale combination of rare beauty, charm of chracter, and fabulous wealt…

サウンドオブミュージック（１４２） ————————————【１４２】————————————————— The young lady who christened this submarine was the grand-daughter of the inventor of the torpedo and owner of the torpedo-plant, Robert Whitehead. ——————————————(…

サウンドオブミュージック（１４１） —————————【１４１】————————————————— He was one of the first to realize the importance of the submarine in warfare.He applied for a transfer to Fiume, where the newly invented torpedoes were being built f…

サウンドオブミュージック（１４０） —————————【１４０】————————————————— And then I listened to a very odd story. Captain von Trapp had been born and brought up on the seashore, as his fatherhad also been in the Navy.At the age of eighteen …

サウンドオブミュージック（１３９） —————————【１３９】————————————————— Baroness Matilda seemed to awaken from deep thought. She turned to meand again and said in a friendly manner : " No, you don't have to go yet, my dear child. I may jus…

サウンドオブミュージック（１３８） ——————————【１３８】——————————————————————— Baroness Matilda looked forlornly into the golden glow ofthe lamp. I felt rather embarrassed now ; perhaps I should nothave asked questions about the master. Pe…

サウンドオブミュージック（１３７） ——————————【１３７】——————————————————————— The smile vanished from the face of my companion, and sherepeated : " Everything money can buy—that is very little. Oh, the poor man has lost so much ! " ——————…

サウンド オブ ミュージック（１３６） ——————————【１３６】——————————————————— " There is one thing that I understand least of all. Why does the Captain not look happy with those precious children, this wonderful home of his, and everything …

サウンドオブミュージック（１３５） ———————————【１３５】———————————————————— I had never been spoiled withsweets or cakes in my life ;and those delicacies on my lap simply loosened my tongue,and I poured out questions to my heart's delight…

サウンドオブミュージック（１３４） —————————【１３４】————————————————— It took me a moment to realise that this meant she wished me tostay until the children were grown up and would not need a teacherany more. Now, wasn't that nice, and I…

サウンドオブミュージック（１３３） —————————【１３３】————————————————— Then, raising her glass, she continued with a warm under-tonein her voice : " Welcome, welcome, and may you never have a successor !" ——————————（訳）—————————————————…

サウンドオブミュージック（１３２） ———————【１３２】————————————————— Then she put an odd-shaped ceramic dish on my lap, filledwith the Austrian pastries, Mozart Kugeln and Vanilla Kipfeln,and said : " Help yourself." ————————（訳）———————…

サウンド オブ ミュージック（１３１） ———————【１３１】————————————————— I must have stopped involuntarily in the doorway, for, " Won't you sit down, dear ? " said the friendly lady with the wide black velvet ribbonabout her throat. Next to…

サウンドオブミュージック（１３０） —————————【１３０】——————————————— My rather masculine mountain-climber's heart shrank back from so much femininity. ——————————（訳）———————————————— 私の、どちらかと言えば男性的な登山愛好の心は、これほど…

サウンドオブミュージック（１２９） ———————【１２９】————————————————— The chaise-longue, which reached diagonally into the big room,had a rich display of silken ruffles. And even the silken cushion on which the Baroness had been resting di…

サウンドオブミュージック（１２９） ———————【１２９】————————————————— The chaise-longue, which reached diagonally into the big room,had a rich display of silken ruffles. And even the silken cushion on which the Baroness had been resting di…

サウンドオブミュージック（１２８） ———————————【１２８】—————————————————— The bed had what seemed to be a petticoat of long muslin rufflesall around. The dressing-table with the large silver mirror andthe many tiny bottles and flasks was …

サウンドオブミュージック（１２７） ———————————【１２７】————————————————— I went in, but I could not make myself at home right away.There was too much of something in this room ; what was it ?An instant later I knew it was ruffles. The whi…

サウンドオブミュージック（１２６） ——————————【１２６】—————————————————— " Come in and make yourself at home, " Baroness Matilda's high-pitched, soft voice called in answer to myknock on her door. ——————————— (訳)———————————————————— 「お…

サウンドオブミュージック（１２５） ————————————【１２５】————————————— On the third day after my arrival the Baron left for a hunting tripin Hungary. The same evening Baroness Matilda said to me duringsupper : " When all the children are i…

サウンドオブミュージック（１２４） ———————————【１２４】—————————————————— Besides the large family and the servants, which amounted alreadyto twenty persons, there was the spacious old house to get used to.So many rooms, hallways, corrido…

サウンドオブミュージック（１２３） ———————————【１２３】—————————————————— Every now and then, however, one could see the Captain and his former orderly smoking a pipe together in the evening after their work was done, taking about the glo…

サウンド オブ ミュージック（１２２） ———————————— 【１２２】——————————————————— He lived with his family in the big house, too.As the Captain did not need an orderly any more , Franz wasin charge of the farm. Being a farmer's boy, he had a…

サウンドオブミュージック（１２１） ————————————— 【１２１】————————————————— Only Franz never showed up in the kitchen. He didn't need to listen to Resi's wild stories. He had been the Captain's orderly while on active duty in the Navy, an…

サウンドオブミュージック（１２０） —————————————【１２０】———————————————————— It happened usually on such occasions that the two house-maids,Poldi and Lisi, and Pepi, the gardener, gathered in the kitchen,too. And even Hans preferred to c…

サウンドオブミュージック（１１９） ————————————【１１９】——————————————————— In the kitchen reigned Resi, the round, good-natured chief cook.Once in her early years she had cooked on an English steamer.She had been in Australis and India, …

サウンドオブミュージック（１１８）本日３本目投稿 Ⅱ. Glories of the Past ———————————【１１８】—————————————————————— The next few days I lived in a continual state of bewilderment.Nothing—nothing at all—was familiar to me in this house.Firs…

サウンド オブ ミュージック（１１７）本日２本目 ——————————— 【１１７】——————————————————————— The first day was crossed out, and the last thought whichwent through my mind at the end of this important day was :After all —I don't belong here…

サウンドオブミュージック（１１６） ———————————【１１６】—————————————————— Happily, like a little schoolgirl, I made myself a calendar whichshowed two hundred and fifty days, the exact number I shouldhave to endure in this house. —————————…

サウンドオブミュージック（１１５） ————————————【１１５】—————————————————— And even Our Lord, when He was weary and tired out and wanted to be alone with His Father, ascended a mountain. —————————————(訳)———————————————————— そして我らが…