原文
"I'd rather go back to the asylum than go to live with her," said Anne
passionately. "She looks exactly like a--like a gimlet."
Marilla smothered a smile under the conviction that Anne must be reproved for such a speech.
"A little girl like you should be ashamed of talking so about a lady and a stranger," she said severely. "Go back and sit down quietly and hold your tongue and behave as a good girl should."
"I'll try to do and be anything you want me, if you'll only keep me," said Anne, returning meekly to her ottoman.
語彙など
- rather:むしろ
- passionately:熱烈に,激怒して
- gimlet:ねじ錐,木工錐
- smother:もみ消す
- conviction:信念,確信
- reprove:たしなめる
- ashamed:恥じて
- severely:厳しく
- hold one's tongue:口をつぐむ,口を慎む
- behave:行儀よくする
- meekly:おとなしく,素直に
- ottoman:足台