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The Uninvited · 1944 — 第 5 / 28 章 · 3'15" · B2

The Tobacconist Gossips About Windward, Explained：talk me out of

A packet of cigarettes turns into a history lesson. The shopkeeper is friendly, but he cannot resist telling the new owner why the last tenants left, and what happened to the lady of Windward House. "Got out of their lease starting ugly stories about the place," he says — the rumor is dismissed and retold in the same breath.

あらすじ

At the village shop, Roderick buys tobacco and is recognized as the new owner of Windward House. The shopkeeper explains that the previous tenants left owing money and invented ugly stories to escape their lease. He also recounts how the lady of the house, Commander Beech's only daughter, fell from the cliff — an accident, he says. Later, Stella Meredith apologizes to Roderick for her behavior.

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weren't no goodgot out oftalk me out oflet her down

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このシーンの表現

talk me out of

persuade me not to

When Stella approaches him, Roderick assumes she wants him to drop the house and tells her not to bother.

She talked me out of buying the bike.

このシーンの他の表現

  • weren't no good

    were no good at all

  • got out of

    escaped from an obligation

  • let her down

    disappoint her

  • live someone else's life

    live for someone else's story

  • looking back on

    reviewing the past

このシーンのメモ一覧

63 行のセリフに 25 件のメモ

表現 · B1glad to hear (that) ...

pleased to learn

Glad to hear there'll be folk in it again.
表現 · A2a dozen of something

twelve of them

- You have a dozen of these? - Likely I have.
表現 · B2bring something back

restore it

Well, well. I hope you'll bring it back to itself again.
表現 · B2the last lot

the previous bunch

The last lot that lived there weren't no good.
文法 · B2that lived there

relative clause: The that-clause narrows the last lot to those who actually lived there.

The last lot that lived there weren't no good.
発音weren't no

The t in weren't drops, so no runs straight on.

The last lot that lived there weren't no good.
スラング · B2weren't no good

were no good at all — Dialect double negative; keep it out of formal speech.

The last lot that lived there weren't no good.
表現 · B1owe money

in debt

Went away owing money.
表現 · B2ugly stories about something

nasty rumors

Got out of their lease starting ugly stories about the place.
表現 · B2say different

tell another story

- That's all right. - Of course, there are others say different.
表現 · B1be only natural

quite understandable

- There are? - Well, that's only natural...
表現 · B2come near doing something

almost did

Only child. Come near breaking the old gentleman's heart.
文法 · B2Come near breaking

come near doing: Come near doing something means it almost happened.

Only child. Come near breaking the old gentleman's heart.
表現 · B2never be the same

changed for good

- He's never been the same since. - How did she die?
スラング · B2what I do say

that is what I say — Rural speech where do adds emphasis.

That's what I do say.
スラング · B2You don't say

really, an exclamation — Spoken reaction; can sound genuine or flat.

You don't say.
表現 · A2for a moment

briefly

- Oh, it's you. - May I speak to you for a moment?
表現 · B2save your breath

don't bother arguing

if you want to talk me out of Windward House, save your breath.
発音save your

Save your links into one smooth sound, close to say-vyer.

if you want to talk me out of Windward House, save your breath.
表現 · B2let someone down

disappoint her

Stella says she stared at her mother's portrait, thinking how she had let her down.

I kept looking at her last night, thinking how I'd let her down.
文法 · B2thinking how I'd let her down

participle clause: The thinking clause rides along with kept looking, describing her inner state.

I kept looking at her last night, thinking how I'd let her down.
発音let her

The h in her is often dropped, so it sounds like let-er.

I kept looking at her last night, thinking how I'd let her down.
表現 · B2get over something

recover from

Grandfather will never get over her death.
表現 · B2look back on something

reviewing the past

Roderick tells Stella to stop spending her time looking back on those three short years.

You shouldn't be wasting a single second looking back on three little years.
表現 · B1for instance

for example

Oh, nonsense! What are you doing today, for instance?

「The Tobacconist Gossips About Windward」を読み解く

What's really going on

The gossip is not idle; it is the whole town deciding what Windward House means before the new owners have moved in. The shopkeeper repeats the rumor and then undermines it — "Got out of their lease starting ugly stories about the place" — but he also supplies the darker facts the rumor grew from: the previous tenants skipped out owing money, and the lady of the house died at the cliff. His verdict, "That's what I do say", is a small masterpiece of not committing to anything. Stella's later apology sits against all this. She is not sorry about a house or a ghost but about her mother, and she measures herself against a woman she never really knew. Roderick's reply — that she is "living somebody else's life" — is the first honest thing anyone says to her.

Theme

Death & griefThe house's history is a story of a mother's death and a grandfather who never recovered, told by a shopkeeper who barely knows them.
MemoryStella clings to three years she cannot remember, living inside a past handed to her by someone else.

このチャプターで学べること

  • Village gossip explains both the price and the fear.
  • Stella apologises to her mother, not to them.
  • Roderick names the life she is really living.
  • A walk outdoors loosens a guarded girl.

発音のポイント

  • weren't no — The t in weren't drops, so no runs straight on.
  • save your — Save your links into one smooth sound, close to say-vyer.
  • let her — The h in her is often dropped, so it sounds like let-er.
- That's foolish, isn't it? - No, just one thing is foolish: You're living somebody else's life.

Roderick's blunt diagnosis of Stella: she has built her identity around her dead mother's years rather than her own life.

You shouldn't be wasting a single second looking back on three little years.

He tells her the three years she treasures are too small to lose her present to. It is advice, not comfort.

The last lot that lived there weren't no good.

The shopkeeper's verdict on the previous tenants: bad people who left owing money. The double negative is local speech.

But it isn't fair to hate a house because someone's died there.

Stella's argument that a house should not be blamed for a death. It explains why she wants Windward rather than fears it.

このシーンについての質問

Why do the locals say Windward House is bad?

The shopkeeper says the last tenants left owing money and invented "ugly stories about the place" to get out of their lease. He treats the haunting rumor as a convenient excuse rather than a fact.

How did Stella's mother die?

She fell from the cliff by Windward House. The shopkeeper calls it an accident, and adds that Commander Beech has never been the same since losing his only child.

Why does Stella apologize to Roderick?

For her behavior the previous afternoon. She says it was inexcusable, though Roderick tells her it was not as bad as she thinks. She explains she was thinking about her mother.

Why does Roderick say Stella is living someone else's life?

Because she has built her days around her dead mother's three years at Windward House instead of her own twenty. He wants her to stop looking back and start living.

Does the shopkeeper believe the rumors about the house?

He seems to enjoy passing them on while keeping his distance. He immediately blames the tenants, yet he also adds that others "say different" and mentions the lady's death, so he leaves every version on the table.

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次のチャプター · 第 6 章break it gentlyRick Takes Stella Sailing
第 1 章hanker forPamela Falls for the Old House第 2 章head over heels in loveThe Fitzgeralds Try to Buy Windward第 3 章bring the price downThe Fitzgeralds Buy a Haunted House第 4 章dog in the mangerRick Feels a Chill in the Room再生中 · 第 5 章talk me out ofThe Tobacconist Gossips About Windward第 6 章break it gentlyRick Takes Stella Sailing第 7 章sleeping-beauty magicLizzie Comes Home to the House第 8 章I'd soonerThe First Night at Windward House第 9 章take hold of yourselfRick and Pam Hear a Woman Cry第 10 章circulate rumorsRick Confronts Commander Beech第 11 章at the mention ofRoderick Gives Stella a Lift第 12 章do no such thingStella Defies Her Grandfather第 13 章a bad hatStella Revisits Her Childhood Home第 14 章dream upLizzie Sees a Ghost at Windward第 15 章hide your head in the sandDr. Scott Tells the Old Scandal第 16 章miss one's cueStella Senses Her Mother's Ghost第 17 章tear someone apartRoderick Asks Stella to Leave第 18 章mind at restThey Plan a Séance for Stella第 19 章tranceThe Séance at Windward House第 20 章at your disposalCommander Beech Confronts Rick第 21 章bluff someoneLizzie Names the Dead Woman's Nurse第 22 章by any chanceRick and Pamela Visit Miss Holloway第 23 章put up withHolloway Tells the Cliff Murder Story第 24 章plaster saintStella Trapped at the Retreat第 25 章in a jiffyThe Casebook Points to Murder第 26 章pile it onThe Plan to Rescue Stella第 27 章beating about the bushHolloway Sends Stella Home第 28 章for heaven's sakeStella Nearly Walks Off the Cliff
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