サウンドオブミュージック（４７５） ————————————【４７５】———————————————— One of her older sisters, the warm-hearted, enthusiastic type, said: " I shall carry the little ones' school bags, I shall eat no dessert at all, I shall say three r…

サウンドオブミュージック（４７４） —————————————【４７４】———————————————— Generosity calls for generosity. " Then I won't even look at sweets or pastry." said I, and my sigh wasn't a bit different, because I have a sweet tooth. " We shall…

サウンドオブミュージック（４７３） ———————————【４７３】———————————————— Some time before Ash Wednesday my husband and I were discussing what we should do with the children during the season of Lent. " You know what I really miss ? " he sa…

サウンドオブミュージック（４７２） —————————【４７２】———————————————— Of course, when Easter comes and these goods are back on the table again, the stomachs feast and celebrate together with the souls, sometimes so much so that a doctor i…

サウンドオブミュージック（４７１） ————————【４７１】———————————————— We should die to our old sinful self and rise as a new man. To this end fasting is one of the oldest precepts. In Poland, Italy, some valleys of Austria, and especially …

サウンドオブミュージック（４７０） ——————————【４７０】———————————————— The people living in the country still celebrate Lent as it was umderstood by the many generations since the beginning of Christianity: by voluntary penance and mortif…

サウンドオブミュージック（４６９） —————————【４６９】————————————————— We danced the Walzer, Polka, Sir Roger, Ländler, and other folk'dances. When the clock struck twelve, the gramophone was stopped in the middle of a walz. We said one "…

サウンドオブミュージック（４６８） —————————【４６８】——————————————— The party was a huge success. There were the three little bears with paws and snoots and all, uncannily well reproduced with camels'-hair blankets and cleverly worked pa…

サウンドオブミュージック（４６７） —————————【４６７】———————————————— Georg* should not have invited strangers to this home party.And it took me a long time to discover my dearly loved hus-band behind the dirty sailor boy. ——————————(訳)—…

サウンドオブミュージック（４６６） ——————————【４６６】————————————— Tatooed all over, hands, neck, chest —and you saw a good portion of it, too, through the net shirt—his hat on one ear, smelling of tobacco, he tried to whisper lovely thi…

サウンドオブミュージック（４６５） ———————————【４６５】—————————————— When I came down at seven o'clock, trying to look as Chinese as possible in that beautiful costume which my hus-band had brought from Hong Kong some years ago, complete…

サウンドオブミュージック（４６４） ———————————【４６４】——————————————— On Fasching Dienstag, we had our own party. At lunch itwas announced that there would be a costume ball in the big living-room, beginning at six. The festive dinner wo…

サウンドオブミュージック（４６３） ———————————【４６３】——————————————— Weeks passed and turned into months. The time between Epiphany and Ash Wednesday is celebrated in Austria, as inall other Catholic countries, as a carnival. Festivitie…

サウンドオブミュージック（４６２） ———————————【４６２】————————————— The feast-days were a little less elaborate. There was nocake with candles, the presents were arranged around one'splate at lunch ; but the kissing and hugging and havin…

サウンドオブミュージック（４６１） —————————【４６１】————————————————— The Birthday Child went now from one to the other and was kissed, wished a happy birthday , and presented with a flower. It may come from the flicker of the candles on…

サウンドオブミュージック（４６０） —————————【４６０】—————————————— While I was going to fetch the hero of the day, the others lined up in a semicircle, each one holding a flower. Themoment we entered the room they started singing " Hoch …

サウンドオブミュージック（４５９） ——————————【４５９】—————————————— All great feasts of the Church have a Vigil ; they start, so to speak, the evening before. So our family feasts were celebrated on the evening before, too. The birthday …

サウンドオブミュージック（４５８） ———————————【４５８】———————————————— A loving heart and gifted fingers can produce a wonder-land of little miracles, especially after the room next to the library has been turned into a workshop with wor…

サウンドオブミュージック（４５７） ——————————【４５７】————————————— How could you possibly get for any money that particular dwelling Martina's dwarfies needed, a cross between foxhalland a little cave, interwoven with roots, with a carpe…