私は又父の樣子を見に病室の戸口迄行つた。病人の枕邊は存外靜かであつた。頼りなささうに疲れた顏をして其所に坐つてゐる母を手招ぎして、「何うですか樣子は」と聞いた。母は「今少し持ち合つてるやうだよ」と答へた。私は父の眼の前へ顏を出して、「何うです、浣腸して少しは心持が好くなりましたか」と尋ねた。父は首肯いた。父ははつきり「有難う」と云つた。父の精神は存外朦朧としてゐなかつた。
translation
I went to the door of the hospital room again to see my father's child. The sick man's bedside was surprisingly quiet. I beckoned my mother, who was sitting there with an unreliable tired look on her face, and asked, "How are you doing?" Mother replied, "I think you're having a little time now." I put my face in front of my father's eyes and asked, "What's going on? Did the enema make you feel a little better?" Father nodded. "Thank you," said my father immediately. My father's spirit was unexpectedly faint.
kanji (pronunciations & definitions)
| 私: I (わたし), me, I (あたくし), I (あたし), I (アタシ) | 見: looking (み), viewing, (please) try (to), view (of life, etc.) (けん), outlook | 病室: sickroom (びょうしつ), hospital room, ward | 戸口: door (とぐち), doorway, houses and inhabitants (ここう), population |
| 存外: beyond expectation (ぞんがい), contrary to expectations, unexpectedly | 顏: face (かお), face (がん), visage, visage, look | 其所: there (place relatively near listener) (そこ), there (place just mentioned), that place, then (of some incident just spoken of), that (of point just raised) | 母: mother (あも), mother (いろは), mother (おも), mother (かか), mother (はは) |
| 持: draw (in go, poetry contest, etc.) (じ), tie | 合: between-season wear (あい), spring and autumn clothing, spring and fall clothing, together, condition | 答: answer (こたえ), reply, response, answer, solution | 父: father (あて), father (かそ), father (かぞ), father (しし), father (ちち) |
| 前: point (さき), tip, end, nozzle, head (of a line) | 出: coming out (で), going out, outflow, efflux, rising (of the Sun or the Moon) | 浣腸: (giving an) enema (かんちょう), (giving an) enema (カンチョウ) | 少: small (しょう), little, few |
| 好: friendship (ぎ), friendship (よしび), friendship (よしみ), friendly relations, friendly relations | 尋: fathom (じん), fathom (ひろ) | 首肯: assent (しゅこう), consent | 精神: mind (せいしん), spirit, soul, heart, ethos |
| 朦朧: dim (もうろう), hazy, vague, indistinct, faint | 朦朧: dim (もうろう), hazy, vague, indistinct, faint |