原文
"Anne Shirley," faltered the shrinking child, not daring to make any
stipulations regarding the spelling thereof, "and I'm eleven years old."
"Humph! You don't look as if there was much to you. But you're wiry. I don't know but the wiry ones are the best after all. Well, if I take you you'll have to be a good girl, you know--good and smart and respectful. I'll expect you to earn your keep, and no mistake about that. Yes, I suppose I might as well take her off your hands, Miss Cuthbert. The baby's awful fractious, and I'm clean worn out attending to him. If you like I can take her right home now."
語彙など
- falter:ためらう
- shrink:ひるむ
- dare to:あえて〜する
- stipulation:規約
- regarding:〜に関して
- thereof:その
- wiry:しなやかで強い
- after all:結局
- smart:利口な,気が利く
- respectful:礼儀正しい
- earn one's keep:生活費を稼ぐ
- might as well:〜して差し支えない
- be off one's hands:手を離れる,肩から荷がおりる
- fractious:気難しい
- clean:すっかり
- wear out:〜を疲れさせる
- attend to:世話をする