* 右写真(ラッセルとアリス)出典: Ronald Clark's The Life of Bertrand Russell, 1975. だが,私が特に関心を持ったのは,(米国)ブリン・マー・カレッジから(夏休みで)帰省していた娘のことであった。彼女は,次のグラスゴーで発行された1921年5月10日付発行の「会報」(Bulletin)からの抜粋からもわかるように,非常に美人であった。 「20年そこら前のことであるが,エディンバラで開かれた,市民歓迎会か,あるいはその種の何かの歓迎会で(禁酒運動の代表者たちに対する歓迎会だったかもしれない),バートランド・ラッセル夫人にお会いしたのを記憶している。当時,彼女は,想像できる限り最も美しい女性の一人であり,また,クエーカー教徒の家系にもかかわらず,ある種の堂々とした威厳を備えていた。その歓迎会に出席した私たちは,彼女を非常に賛美し,平静かつ品位のあるエディンバラ流で,彼女をその夜のヒロインとした。」
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But it was the daughter from Bryn Mawr who especially interested me. She was very beautiful, as appears from the following extract from the Bulletin, Glasgow, May 10, 1921: 'I remember meeting Mrs Bertrand Russell at a civic reception or something of the kind (was it a reception to temperance delegates?) in Edinburgh twenty odd years ago. She was at that time one of the most beautiful women it is possible to imagine, and gifted with a sort of imperial statelines, for all her Quaker stock. We who were present admired her so much that in a collected and dignified Edinburgh way we made her the heroine of the evening.'She was more emancipated than any young woman I had known, since she was at college and crossed the Atlantic alone, and was, as I soon discovered, an intimate friend of Walt Whitman. She asked me whether I had ever read a certain German book called Ekkehard, and it happened that I had finished it that morning. I felt this was a stroke of luck. She was kind, and made me feel not shy. I fell in love with her at first sight. |
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