原文
Get there they did, however, in due season. Mrs. Spencer lived in a big
yellow house at White Sands Cove, and she came to the door with surprise
and welcome mingled on her benevolent face.
"Dear, dear," she exclaimed, "you're the last folks I was looking for today, but I'm real glad to see you. You'll put your horse in? And how are you, Anne?"
"I'm as well as can be expected, thank you," said Anne smilelessly. A blight seemed to have descended on her.
"I suppose we'll stay a little while to rest the mare," said Marilla, "but I promised Matthew I'd be home early. The fact is, Mrs. Spencer, there's been a queer mistake somewhere, and I've come over to see where it is. We send word, Matthew and I, for you to bring us a boy from the asylum. We told your brother Robert to tell you we wanted a boy ten or eleven years old."
語彙など
- in due season:そのうちに,ちょうどよいときに
- cove:入り江
- mingle:入り交じる
- benevolent:情け深い,優しい
- exclaim:声高に言う
- folk:人々
- look for:予期する,期待して待つ
- smilelessly:笑顔を見せずに
- blight:破滅のもと,障害
- descend on:〜を不意に訪れる
- mare:雌馬
- queer:妙な
- asylum:孤児院