Best Looking Girl in Town

Pazartesi, 24 Mart 2008

Yazının Diğer Sayfaları Best Looking Girl in Town Sayfa 2 Sayfa 1 toplam 2 Thyra Samter Winslow From the time she was thirteen Rilla Mabry had been ashamed of her appearance. It was then that she started growing taller than the other girls. She was also awkward  as well as tall and she was too thin. By the time she was twenty she was fully convinced that her appearance was really something terrible . All of the other girls seemed little and cute and attractive. No matter what Rilla wore it seemed wrong. She was much too tall to wear tailored clothes. And thin dresses hung around her loosely. All of the girls and boys in the group liked Rilla. She was a fine girl – if you could forget the way she looked. Even her hair was wrong-rather stringy- but she had a pleasant and attractive face. In spite of her looks Rilla had a boy friend. He was Patrick Redding and his father kept a grocery store. Pat wasn’t any great price –but then you couldn’t expect Rilla, with her looks to do any better. People feel that  Rilla ought to be satisfied. Pat was a  nice looking boy, and he shouldn’t be considered unimportant.Rilla didn’t consider Pat unimportant. She was grateful to him for being nice to her. She was as pleasant and  as friendly as she could be. As a matter of fact she liked Patrick a lot. He was fun to be with. She would have been perfectly satisfied except for the fact that she was in love with Shane Tennant. All of which did her little good – for Shane was the price of the town. Shane’s father was a banker – and rich. Kasabadaki En Güzel Kız On üç yaşından beri Rilla Mabry görünüşünden utanıyordu. Bu yaştan sonra diğer kızlardan daha uzun olmaya başladı. Aynı zamanda beceriksiz, çok ince ve oldukça uzundu. Yirmi yaşına geldiğinde görünüşünün korkunç olduğuna tamamen ikna olmuştu. Diğer kızların hepsi kısa, sevimli ve çekiciydi. Rilla ne giyse, kötü görünüyordu. Çok uzun olduğundan hazır  elbiseler tam anlamıyla üzerinde asılı şekilde duruyordu. Gruptaki bütün kızlar ve erkekler Rilla’yı seviyordu. İyi bir kızdı,eğer görünüşüne kulak asmazsanız. Çok ince olduğu için saçı bile kötü görünüyordu, fakat çok hoş ve çekici bir yüzü vardı. Görünüşüne rağmen Rilla’nın bir erkek arkadaşı vardı. O Patrick Redding’ti ve babasının bir bakkalı vardı. Pat fazla etmezdi, fakat bakışlarıyla Rilla’dan da fazla birşey bekleyemezdiniz. İnsanlar Rilla’nın tatmin olması gerektiğini düşünürlerdi. Pat iyi görünüşlü bir çocuktu ve önemsiz olduğu düşünülmemeliydi. Rilla Pat’in önemsiz olduğunu düşünmüyordu. Kendisine iyi davrandığı için  o da ona karşı saygılıydı. Elinden geldiğince ona hoş ve arkadaşça davranıyordu. Aslında Pat’i çok seviyordu.  Onunla birlikte olmak eğlenceliydi. Shane Tannent’a aşık olmasaydı çok memnun olabilirdi. Bunun faydası yoktu zira Shane kasabanın gözdesiydi. Shane’in babası bankacıydı ve zengindi. His mother was the social leader of the town. Shane was well much taller than Rilla- and handsome besides. Pat went into the grocery business with her father. Shane went into the bank. That’s the way sons do in small towns unless they have definite ideals about law or one of the other professions. Rilla didn’t do anything. Her parents have just enough money so she didn’t have to work. She went to parties with Patrick- and admired for Shane from a distance. The towns people felt that she would marry with Pat, that he’d take over his father’s grocery store, and that they’d settle down. That might have happened if it hadn’t been for Leslie Durant. Leslie Durant was - and still is-a well known magazine illustrator. And he came to Morrisville to visit an aunt. And he was taken an anywhere to all of the parties , of course. He was the social lion of the season. He stayed in town only for few days – but that was long enough for a lot to happen. He saw Rilla Mabry. Rilla was standing near the door and she was looking at Shane Tennant. She never knew her face how much showed what she was thinking about. No one else noticed- but Durant being knew, understood the situation. He saw Rilla standing not quite straight because she didn’t feel quite as tall that way, in a badly fitted dress and her hair not quite smooth- and he saw Shane, perfectly dressed, self confident, good looking. And then Pat came to ask Rilla for the dance. Annesi kasabanın sosyal lideriydi. Buna ilaveten Shane Rilla’dan daha uzun ve üstelik yakışıklıydı da.Pat babasıyla beraber bakkal işine girdi. Shane bankaya girdi. Eğer Hukuk veya  diğer meslekler hakkında idealleri yoksa erkek çocukların kasabada baş vurduğu yol buydu. Rilla birşey yapmadı. Onun anne ve babasının yeterince parası vardı ve o çalışmak zorunda değildi. Patrick’le beraber partilere gitti ve Shane’e uzaktan hayranlık duydu. Kasaba halkı onun Pat ile evleneceğini, babasının bakkalını devralacağını ve kasabaya yerleşeceklerini  zannediyordu. Eğer Leslie Durant olmasaydı bu beklentiler gerçekleşebilirdi. Leslie Durant geçmişte ve halen tanınmış birgazete ressamıydı. Halasını ziyaret için Morisville’ye geldi ve  tabiki partilerin olduğu her yere götürüldü. Sezonun  en sosyal insanıydı. Kasabada yalnızca bir kaç gün kalmasına rağmen bu süre birçok şeyin gerçekleşmesi için yeterliydi. Rilla Mabry’i gördü. Rilla kapının yanında duruyor ve Shane Tennant’a bakıyordu. Ne düşündüğünü yüzünün ne kadar gösterdiğini hiçbir zaman bilmiyordu. Daha önce hiçkimse bunu farketmemişti, ama yeni olduğu için Durant durumu anlamıştı. Üzerinde kötü duran bir elbise ve düzgün olmayan saçlarıyla uzun görünmemek için eğik duran Rilla’yı gördü. Sonra Shane’igördü, mükemmel giyinmiş, kendine güvenir ve yakışıklı. Ve sonra Pat Rilla’ya dans teklif etmek için yanına geldi. On the second day of his visit Durant  made his remarkable statement. He told anyone who would listen to him that Rilla Mabry was by far the best looking girl in town. One of the best looking girl he’d ever seen.Rilla never had a compliment about her looks before. She had always been shy, self conscious, and often unhappy about her appearance. And now the first authority in beauty who had ever been in town claimed that she was the price.When Durant, himself told her what he  thought of her she was filled with confusion. She managed finally to thank him. And later, very shyly , she went up to him.“I do wish that you would tell me how can look better,“ she said.“That’s not really my particular kind of work, “ he told her, “ but may be if we get together …..”They got together the next morning. Durant came to Rilla’s house. And with Rilla’s mother acting as helper, they did things to Rilla and to Rilla’s clothes. Durant made her stand up straight . and he rearranged her hair. And he told her what was wrong with the clothes she wore.That night there was a dance for Durant- his last evening in town.  And, as he had thought when he started things, Rilla was, for the first time in her life, the center of attention. Toward the end of the evening Durant had the satisfaction of seeing Shane Tennant dancing very attentively with Rilla, Shane Tenant  whom Rilla had looked at with longing eyes – and who had paid any attention to her. Önceki - Sonraki >>

 

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