奧さんの語氣には非常に同情があつた。それでも口元丈には微笑が見えた。外側から云へば、私の方が寧ろ眞面目だつた。私は六づかしい顏をして默つてゐた。すると奧さんが急に思ひ出した樣に又口を開いた。
translation
Oku-san's tone was very sympathetic. Still, I could see a smile on my lips. Speaking from the outside, I was rather serious. I was silent with an embarrassed look on my face. Then Oku-san suddenly remembered and opened her mouth again.
kanji (pronunciations & definitions)
| 奧: inner part (おく), interior, back (of a drawer, one’s throat, etc.), depths (e.g. of a forest), recesses (e.g. of a cave) | 非常: emergency (ひじょう), extreme, great, extraordinary, remarkable | 同情: sympathy (どうじょう), compassion, pity | 口元: mouth (くちもと), lips, shape of the mouth, near an entrance, vicinity of an entrance |
| 微笑: smile (びしょう) | 見: looking (み), viewing, (please) try (to), view (of life, etc.) (けん), outlook | 外側: exterior (がいそく), exterior (そとがわ), outside, outside, outer | 私: I (わたし), me, I (あたくし), I (あたし), I (アタシ) |
| 寧: rather (むしろ), better, instead, if anything | 眞面目: serious (まじめ), serious (マジメ), earnest, earnest, sober | 六: six (む), six (むう), six (ろく), 6, 6 | 顏: face (かお), face (がん), visage, visage, look |
| 出: coming out (で), going out, outflow, efflux, rising (of the Sun or the Moon) |