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Daddy-Long-Legs by Jean Webster
【赤毛のアン】みたいに少女向けの本だけど大人の俺でも結構楽しめた。
Gutenberg でタダで読めるが市販の本では著者による可愛いイラストが見れる。
書き出し
Blue Wednesday
The first Wednesday in every month was a Perfectly Awful Day--a day to
be awaited with dread, endured with courage and forgotten with haste.
Every floor must be spotless, every chair dustless, and every bed
without a wrinkle. Ninety-seven squirming little orphans must be
scrubbed and combed and buttoned into freshly starched ginghams; and
all ninety-seven reminded of their manners, and told to say, 'Yes,
sir,' 'No, sir,' whenever a Trustee spoke.