DADDY-LONG-LEGS (2)

DADDY-LONG-LEGS (2)

Jerusha escaped from the pantry where she ahd been making sandwiches for the asylum's guests, and turned upsrairs to accomplish her regular work.
※asylum's guests 施設への訪問者

Her special care was room F, where eleven little tots, from four to seven,occupied eleven little cots set in a row.

Jerusha assembled her charges, straightened their rumpled frocks,　wiped their noses, and started them in an orderly and willing line toward the dinning room to engage themselves for a blessed half hour with bread and milk and prune pudding.
※rumpled frocks しわくちゃとなった室内着

Then she dropped down on the window seat and leaned throbbing temples against the cool glass.
She had been on her feet since five that morning, doing everybody's bidding, scolded and hurried by a nervous matron.
※matron 院長先生

Mrs.Lippett, behind the scenes, did not always maintain that calm and pompous dignity with which she faced an audience of Trustee and lady visitors.

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