「そりや私から見れば分つてゐます。（先生はさう思つてゐないかも知れませんが）。先生は私を離れゝば不幸になる丈です。或は生きてゐられないかも知れませんよ。さういふと、己惚になるやうですが、私は今先生を人間として出來る丈幸福にしてゐるんだと信じてゐますわ。どんな人があつても私程先生を幸福にできるものはないと迄思ひ込んでゐますわ。それだから斯うして落ち付いてゐられるんです」
translation
"From my point of view, I can understand (although you may not think so). If you leave me, you will be unhappy. Or you may not be able to live. It sounds like I'm being selfish, but I believe that I'm making Sensei as happy as he can be as a human being. I'm even convinced that I don't have anything.
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 | 分: minute (unit of time) (ふん), fun (one tenth of a monme, 5.787 grains), one-tenth (ぶ), one percent (one-tenth of a wari), 3 mm (one-tenth of a sun) | 先生: teacher (せんせい), instructor, master, sensei, title or form of address for a teacher, master, doctor, lawyer, etc. |
| 先生: teacher (せんせい), instructor, master, sensei, title or form of address for a teacher, master, doctor, lawyer, etc. | 離: li (one of the trigrams of the I Ching: fire, south) (り) | 不幸: unhappiness (ふこう), sorrow, misfortune, disaster, accident | 丈: only (だけ), just, merely, simply, no more than |
| 生: pure (き), undiluted, raw, crude, raw (なま) | 先生: teacher (せんせい), instructor, master, sensei, title or form of address for a teacher, master, doctor, lawyer, etc. | 人間: human being (にんげん), human, person, man, mankind | 幸福: happiness (こうふく), well-being, joy, welfare, blessedness |
| 人: -ian (e.g. Italian) (じん), -ite (e.g. Tokyoite), -er (e.g. performer, etc.), person working with …, man | 先生: teacher (せんせい), instructor, master, sensei, title or form of address for a teacher, master, doctor, lawyer, etc. | 幸福: happiness (こうふく), well-being, joy, welfare, blessedness | 落: slip (おち), slip (オチ), omission, omission, upshot |