原文
Mrs. Rachel, before she had fairly closed the door, had taken a mental note of everything that was on that table. There were three plates laid, so that Marilla must be expecting some one home with Matthew to tea; but the dishes were everyday dishes and there was only crab-apple preserves and one kind of cake, so that the expected company could not be any particular company. Yet what of Matthew's white collar and the sorrel mare? Mrs. Rachel was getting fairly dizzy with this unusual mystery about quiet, unmysterious Green Gables.
"Good evening, Rachel," Marilla said briskly. "This is a real fine evening, isn't it? Won't you sit down? How are all your folks?"
Something that for lack of any other name might be called friendship existed and always had existed between Marilla Cuthbert and Mrs. Rachel, in spite of--or perhaps because of--their dissimilarity.
語彙など
- fairly:きちんと
- crab apple:野生リンゴ
- preserve:果物の砂糖煮
- What of 〜:〜はどうなのか
- sorrel:栗毛の
- mare:雌馬
- fairly:かなり
- dizzy:そわそわした
- briskly:キビキビと
- in spite of:〜にもかかわらず
- dissimilarity:相違点
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