The Dedicated Piano Tuner
- The dedicated piano tuner who refuses to retire
- His love for his work keeps him going despite his age
- The importance of his routine and the satisfaction it brings
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翻訳お願いいたします。 some time later, when the new marriage had settled into a routine, people wondered if the piano tuner would begin to think about retiring. With a bad knee, and being sightless in old age, he would readily have been forgiven in the house and the convents and the school halls where he applied his skill. Leisure was his due, the good fortune of company as his years sipped by no more than he deserved. But when, occasionally, this was put to him by the loquacious or the inquisitive he denide that anything of the kind was in his thoughts, that he considered only the visitation of depth as bringing any kind of end. The truth was, he would be lost without his work, without his travelling about, his arrival every six months or so in one of the small towns to which he had offered his services for so long. No, no, he promised, they'd still see the white Vauxhall turning in at a farm gate or parked for harf an hour in a convent play-yard, or drawn up on a verge while he ate his lunch time sandwhiches, his tea poured out of a Thermos by his wife.
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しばらくの後、新婚組が日常生活に落ちついた頃、人々はピアノ調律師が引退を考え始めたのではないかと思いました。膝も悪く、寄る年波で目もよく見えないので、彼の技術が活かせる家や修道院や学校ホールで心安く受け入れてもらっていたのでした。彼の余暇はお定まりで、年齢に見合うよき仲間に恵まれて、自分にふさわしいだけの酒をちびちびやっていました。しかし時にこれが、おしゃべりや詮索好きに突っ込まれると、自分にはそんな考えはかけらもなく、深みにはまったぐらいで物事の終りが来るわけではない、と言ってはねつけるのでした。 仕事がなければ、そう、彼が長い間サービスを提供してきた小さな町の1つにおよそ６か月ごとにやってくる旅行がなければ、彼は路頭に迷うことになるだろう、というのが真実でした。いやいや、彼は約束しました。人々は、これからもまだ白いヴォクソール車が農場ゲートを曲がって中へ入るのを見ることでしょう。あるいはそれ（車）が修道院の運動場に30分間駐車されるのを見ることでしょう。あるいは昼食時にその端っこに止まって、妻にサーモス魔法瓶から茶を注いでもらって、サンドイッチを頬張るのを見ることでしょう。
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