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Old Anthony Rockwall, retired manufacturer and proprietor of Rockwall’s Eureka Soap, looked out the library window of his Fifth Avenue mansion and grinned.老アンソニー・ロックウォール——ロックウォールのユリーカ石鹸の元製造業者兼所有者——は、五番街の館の書斎の窓から外を眺め、にんまりと笑った。
His neighbour to the right—the aristocratic clubman, G.彼の右隣の隣人—貴族のクラブマン、G
Van Schuylight Suffolk-Jones—came out to his waiting motorcar, wrinkling a contumelious nostril, as usual, at the Italian renaissance sculpture of the soap palace’s front elevation. “Stuck-up old statuette of nothing doing!” commented the ex-Soap King. “The Eden Musée’ll get that old frozen Nesselrode yet if he don’t watch out.ヴァン・シューライト・サフォーク=ジョーンズは、待機する自分の自動車に向かって現れた例によって軽蔑の鼻をひくつかせながら、石鹸城の正面のイタリア・ルネサンス彫刻を見やった。「高慢ちきな人形め、何もしやがらねえ！」と元石鹸王はコメントした。「イーデン・ミュージーがいつかあの冷えたネッセルローデ爺さんをおさらばさせてやるぜ、気をつけねえとな。」
I’ll have this house painted red, white, and blue next summer and see if that’ll make his Dutch nose turn up any higher.” And then Anthony Rockwall, who never cared for bells, went to the door of his library and shouted “Mike!” in the same voice that had once chipped off pieces of the welkin on the Kansas prairies. “Tell my son,” said Anthony to the answering menial, “to come in here before he leaves the house.” When young Rockwall entered the library the old man laid aside his newspaper, looked at him with a kindly grimness on his big, smooth, ruddy countenance, rumpled his mop of white hair with one hand and rattled the keys in his pocket with the other. “Richard,” said Anthony Rockwall, “what do you pay for the soap that you use?” Richard, only six months home from college, was startled a little.来年の夏、この家を赤、白、青に塗らせて、それで彼のオランダ人の鼻がもっと高く上がるかどうか見てやろう。
He had not yet taken the measure of this sire of his, who was as full of unexpectednesses as a girl at her first party. “Six dollars a dozen, I think, dad.” “And your clothes?” “I suppose about sixty dollars, as a rule.” “You’re a gentleman,” said Anthony, decidedly. “I’ve heard of these young bloods spending $24 a dozen for soap, and going over the hundred mark for clothes.彼はまだ、この父親の正体を掴めずにいた。父親は、初めてのパーティーに出る少女のように予測不能な人物だったのだ。「一ダース6ドルだと思うよ、父さん」「じゃあ、衣類は？」「だいたい60ドルくらいかな、普段は」「君は紳士だな」とアンソニーは断固として言った。「一ダース24ドルも石鹸に使って、衣類には100ドル以上かけるという若い連中の話は聞いたことがある」
You’ve got as much money to waste as any of ’em, and yet you stick to what’s decent and moderate.あなたは彼らの誰に劣らずお金を浪費できるのに、それでも品行方正で節度を守っている。
Now I use the old Eureka—not only for sentiment, but it’s the purest soap made.今や私は古いユリーカを使っている——感傷のためだけでなく、それが作られた中で最も純粋な石鹸だからだ。
Whenever you pay more than 10 cents a cake for soap you buy bad perfumes and labels.石鹸に1個10セント以上払うなら、結局は安物の香水とラベルを買っているようなものだ。
But 50 cents is doing very well for a young man in your generation, position and condition.でも50セントは、あなたの世代、地位、境遇の若者としてはかなり良いほうだ。
As I said, you’re a gentleman.申し上げた通り、あなたは紳士です。
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