原文
"I reckon because Mr. Barry lives up there in that house. Orchard
Slope's the name of his place. If it wasn't for that big bush behind it
you could see Green Gables from here. But we have to go over the bridge
and round by the road, so it's near half a mile further."
"Has Mr. Barry any little girls? Well, not so very little either--about my size."
"He's got one about eleven. Her name is Diana."
"Oh!" with a long indrawing of breath. "What a perfectly lovely name!"
"Well now, I dunno. There's something dreadful heathenish about it, seems to me. I'd ruther Jane or Mary or some sensible name like that. But when Diana was born there was a schoolmaster boarding there and they gave him the naming of her and he called her Diana."
語彙など
- reckon:推測する,思う
- If it wasn't for=If it were not for=もし〜がなかったら
- indraw:吸い込む
- dreadful:恐れ多い,ひどい
- heathenish:異教の,非キリスト教的な
- schoolmaster:教師
- board:下宿する