伯父はもし私が主張するなら、私の卒業迄結婚を延ばしても可いと云ひました。けれども善は急げといふ諺もあるから、出來るなら今のうちに祝言の盃丈は濟ませて置きたいとも云ひました。當人に望のない私には何方にしたつて同じ事です。私は又斷りました。伯父は厭な顏をしました。從妹は泣きました。私に添はれないから悲しいのではありません、結婚の申し込を拒絶されたのが、女として辛かつたからです。私が從妹を愛してゐない如く、從妹も私を愛してゐない事は、私によく知れてゐました。私はまた東京へ出ました。
translation
My uncle said that if I insisted, I could postpone the marriage until my graduation. However, since there is a saying that good things should be done in haste, I also said that if possible, I would like to set the length of the congratulatory address right now. It's the same for me, who has no hope for other people. I stopped again. My uncle made a disgusted face. My sister cried. It's not because I can't be with you that I'm sad, but because it hurts me as a woman to have my marriage proposal rejected. I knew very well that my servant did not love me any more than I did not love her. I went to Tokyo again.
kanji (pronunciations & definitions)
| 伯父: uncle (おじ), uncle (しゅくふ), uncle (はくふ), uncle (one’s father’s older brother) (えおじ) | 私: I (わたし), me, I (あたくし), I (あたし), I (アタシ) | 主張: claim (しゅちょう), insistence, assertion, advocacy, emphasis | 卒業: graduation (そつぎょう), completion (of a course), moving on (from), outgrowing (something), leaving (a group, company, etc.) |
| 可: acceptable (か), satisfactory, allowed, permitted, approval | 善: good (ぜん), goodness, right, virtue | 急: sudden (きゅう), abrupt, unexpected, urgent, pressing | 諺: proverb (ことわざ), saying, aphorism, maxim |
| 祝言: festivities (しゅうげん), celebration, wedding, marriage ceremony, congratulatory words (いわいごと) | 望: full moon (ぼう), full moon (もち), 15th day of the lunar month, 15th day of the lunar month | 何方: which way (いずかた), which way (いずし), which way (いずち), which way (どち), which way (どちら) | 同: the same (どう), the said, likewise |
| 厭: disliking (いや), disliking (や), disliking (イヤ), not wanting, not wanting | 顏: face (かお), face (がん), visage, visage, look | 悲: karuna (compassion) (ひ) | 結婚: marriage (けっこん) |
| 拒絶: refusal (きょぜつ), rejection | 女: female (うみな), female (おうな), female (おな), female (おみな), female (おんな) | 辛: 8th in rank (かのと), 8th in rank (しん), eighth sign of the Chinese calendar, eighth sign of the Chinese calendar | 愛: love (あい), affection, care, attachment, craving |
| 知: wisdom (ち), jnana (higher knowledge) | 東京: Tokyo (とうきょう), Tokyo (とうけい) | 出: coming out (で), going out, outflow, efflux, rising (of the Sun or the Moon) |