原文
When they had driven up the further hill and around a corner Matthew
said:
"We're pretty near home now. That's Green Gables over--"
"Oh, don't tell me," she interrupted breathlessly, catching at his partially raised arm and shutting her eyes that she might not see his gesture. "Let me guess. I'm sure I'll guess right."
She opened her eyes and looked about her. They were on the crest of a hill. The sun had set some time since, but the landscape was still clear in the mellow afterlight. To the west a dark church spire rose up against a marigold sky. Below was a little valley and beyond a long, gently-rising slope with snug farmsteads scattered along it. From one to another the child's eyes darted, eager and wistful. At last they lingered on one away to the left, far back from the road, dimly white with blossoming trees in the twilight of the surrounding woods. Over it, in the stainless southwest sky, a great crystal-white star was shining like a lamp of guidance and promise.
語彙など
- interrupt:遮る
- breathlessly:息をはずませて
- that ~ might not see= so that ~ might not see
- guess:推測する
- crest of a hill:丘の頂上
- mellow:柔らかい
- afterlight:残照
- spire:尖塔
- snug:こぢんまりとした
- farmstead:農場
- dart:素早く動く
- wistful:なつかしそうな,あこがれの
- linger:ぐずぐずする
- twilight:黄昏どき
- stainless:錆びない,きれいな
- crystal:結晶,ガラス製品
- guidance:手引き,案内