心に残る一冊—The Trumpet-Major

"In the days of high-waisted and muslin-gowned women，when the vast amount of soldiering going on in the country was a cause of much trembling to the sex, there lived in a village near the Wessex coast two ladies of good report, though unfortunately of limited means. The elder was a Mrs. Martha Garland, a landscapepainter's widow, and the other was her only daughter Anne."

　この書き出しはトーマス・ハーディ（Thomas Hardy）の小説『らっぱ隊長』である．