DADDY-LONG-LEGS (6)

DADDY-LONG-LEGS (6)

The long lower hall had not been lighted, and as she came downstairs, a last Trustee stood on the point of departure, in the open door that led to the potre-cochère.
※Portre-cochère 車や馬車の出入口

Jerusha caught only a fleeting impression of the man ー and the impression consisted entirely of tallness.

He was waving his arm toward an automobile waiting in the curved drive.
As it ssprang into motion and approached, head on for an instant, the glaring headlights threw his shadow sharply against the wall inside.

The shadow pictured grotesquely elongated legs and arms that ran along the floor and up the wall of the corridor.
It looked, for all the world, like a huge, wavering daddy-long-legs. 

※daddy-long-legs ガガンボ、蚊トンボ　ザトウムシ　などの通称
日本では、「足長おじさん」となっているので、もしかしたら意外かも、です。


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