所が歸つて見ると伯父の態度が違つてゐます。元のやうに好い顏をして私を自分の懷に抱かうとしません。それでも鷹揚に育つた私は、歸つて四五日の間は氣が付かずにゐました。たゞ何かの機會に不圖變に思ひ出したのです。すると妙なのは、伯父ばかりではないのです。伯母も妙なのです。從妹も妙なのです。中學校を出て、是から東京の高等商業へ這入る積だといつて、手紙で其樣子を聞き合せたりした伯父の男の子迄妙なのです。
translation
"When I got home, my uncle's attitude was different." He won't put on a nice face like before and hug me in his arms. Even so, I was brought up in an easy-going way, and I didn't realize it for four or five days after I came back. It was only by some chance that I suddenly remembered. And the strange thing is that he wasn't the only one. My aunt is strange too. My sister is also strange. Even my uncle's boy, who wrote a letter telling me that he was about to enter a high-level business in Tokyo after graduating from junior high school, asked about the situation.
kanji (pronunciations & definitions)
| 所: place (とこ), place (ところ), spot, spot, scene | 見: looking (み), viewing, (please) try (to), view (of life, etc.) (けん), outlook | 伯父: uncle (おじ), uncle (しゅくふ), uncle (はくふ), uncle (one’s father’s older brother) (えおじ) | 態度: attitude (たいど), manner, behaviour, demeanour, bearing |
| 好: friendship (ぎ), friendship (よしび), friendship (よしみ), friendly relations, friendly relations | 顏: face (かお), face (がん), visage, visage, look | 私: I (わたし), me, I (あたくし), I (あたし), I (アタシ) | 自分: myself (じぶん), yourself, oneself, himself, herself |
| 鷹揚: large-hearted (おうよう), large-hearted (おおよう), large-hearted (ようよう), generous, generous | 五日: 5th day of the month (いつか), 5th day of the month (ごにち), five days, five days | 間: space (between) (あいだ), space (between) (あわい), gap, gap, interval | 氣: spirit (き), mind, heart, nature, disposition |
| 何: what (なに), what (ナニ), you-know-what, you-know-what, that thing | 不圖: suddenly (ふと), casually, accidentally, incidentally, unexpectedly | 變: strange (へん), odd, peculiar, weird, curious | 出: coming out (で), going out, outflow, efflux, rising (of the Sun or the Moon) |
| 伯母: aunt (おば), aunt (しゅくぼ), aunt (はくぼ) | 學校: school (がっこう) | 是: here (ここ), this place, this point, here, now | 東京: Tokyo (とうきょう), Tokyo (とうけい) |
| 商業: commerce (しょうぎょう), trade, business | 商業: commerce (しょうぎょう), trade, business | 積: product (せき), volume, area | 手紙: letter (てがみ), missive, note, mail |
| 男: man (おっこ), man (おとこ), male, male, fellow |