原文
There are plenty of people in Avonlea and out of it, who can attend closely to their neighbor's business by dint of neglecting their own; but Mrs. Rachel Lynde was one of those capable creatures who can manage their own concerns and those of other folks into the bargain. She was a notable housewife; her work was always done and well done; she "ran" the Sewing Circle, helped run the Sunday-school, and was the strongest prop of the Church Aid Society and Foreign Missions Auxiliary. Yet with all this Mrs. Rachel found abundant time to sit for hours at her kitchen window, knitting "cotton warp" quilts--she had knitted sixteen of them, as Avonlea housekeepers were wont to tell in awed voices--and keeping a sharp eye on the main road that crossed the hollow and wound up the steep red hill beyond. Since Avonlea occupied a little triangular peninsula jutting out into the Gulf of St. Lawrence with water on two sides of it, anybody who went out of it or into it had to pass over that hill road and so run the unseen gauntlet of Mrs. Rachel's all-seeing eye.
語彙など
- by dint of:〜によって
- concern:関心事項
- into the bargain:その上
- sewing circle:慈善裁縫会
- prop:支持者
- Church Aid Society:教会援助協会（定訳はないみたい）
- Foreign Missions Auxiliary:海外伝導補助団体（定訳はないみたい）
- abundant:十分な
- cotton warp:糸の種類
- wont:〜することを習慣としている
- awed:畏敬の念を表した
- keep an eye on:目を光らせる
- occupy:陣取る
- triangular:三角の
- jut out:突き出る
- run the gauntlet:多くの試練を受ける
cotton warpに関しては、ネイティブにもはっきりしてないようです。a kind of cotton threadとか、ベッドカバーだとか。