Uncle Tom’s Cabin (3)

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「アンクル・トムの小屋」（ Lit2Go より）の第３章です。

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Chapter 3

⁰The Morning After

¹Next morning, when it was discovered that Eliza had run away with her little boy, there was great excitement and confusion all over the house.

²Mrs. Shelby was very glad.  ³“Thank God!” she said.  ⁴“I hope Eliza will get right away.  I could not bear to think of Harry being sold to that cruel man”

⁵Mr. Shelby was angry.  ⁶“Haley knew I didn’t want to sell the child,” he said.  ⁷“He will blame me for this.”

⁸One person only was quite silent, and that was Aunt Chloe.  ⁹She went on, making the breakfast as if she heard and saw nothing of the excitement round her.

¹⁰All the little black boys belonging to the house thought it was fine fun.  ¹¹Very soon, about a dozen young imps were roosting, like so many crows, on the railings, waiting for Haley to come.  ¹²They wanted to see how angry he would be, when he heard the news.

¹³And he was dreadfully angry.  ¹⁴The little nigger boys thought it was grand.  ¹⁵They shouted and laughed and made faces at him to their hearts’ content.

¹⁶At last Haley became so angry, that Mr. Shelby offered to give him two men to help him to find Eliza.

¹⁷But these two men, Sam and Andy, knew quite well that Mrs. Shelby did not want Eliza to be caught, so they put off as much time as they could.

¹⁸They let loose their horses and Haley’s too.  ¹⁹Then they frightened and chased them, till they raced like mad things all over the great lawns which surrounded the house.

²⁰Whenever it seemed likely that a horse would be caught, Sam ran up, waving his hat and shouting wildly, “Now for it!  Cotch him!  Cotch him!”  ²¹This frightened the horses so much that they galloped off faster than before.

²²Haley rushed up and down, shouting and using dreadful, naughty words, and stamping with rage all the time.

²³At last, about twelve o’clock, Sam came riding up with Haley’s horse.  ²⁴“He’s cotched,” he said, seemingly very proud of himself.  ²⁵“I cotched him!’

²⁶Of course, now it was too late to start before dinner.  ²⁷Besides, the horses were so tired with all their running about, that they had to have a rest.

²⁸When at last they did start, Sam led them by a wrong road.  ²⁹So the sun was almost setting before they arrived at the village where Haley hoped to find Eliza.

［1］ ウィズダム英和辞典 第３版（2012）
［2］ジーニアス英和辞典 第５版（2015）
［3］ ランダムハウス英語辞典 第２版（1993）
［4］ リーダーズ英和辞典 第３版（2012）
［20］Wikitionary  https://www.wiktionary.org/
［43］ 現代英文法講義　安藤貞雄著　開拓社（2005）

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