原文
Breakfast, dinner, and supper were very silent meals--for Anne still
remained obdurate. After each meal Marilla carried a well-filled tray
to the east gable and brought it down later on not noticeably depleted.
Matthew eyed its last descent with a troubled eye. Had Anne eaten
anything at all?
When Marilla went out that evening to bring the cows from the back pasture, Matthew, who had been hanging about the barns and watching, slipped into the house with the air of a burglar and crept upstairs. As a general thing Matthew gravitated between the kitchen and the little bedroom off the hall where he slept; once in a while he ventured uncomfortably into the parlor or sitting room when the minister came to tea. But he had never been upstairs in his own house since the spring he helped Marilla paper the spare bedroom, and that was four years ago.
語彙など
- obdurate:頑固な,強情な
- noticeably:著しく,目立って
- deplete:使い果たす(食事を食べる)
- descent:降下(トレイを持って降りてくること)
- troubled:困惑した
- pasture:牧草地
- hang about:ウロウロする
- barn:納屋,物置
- air:様子
- burglar:泥棒
- creep:ゆっくり近づく,忍び寄る
- as a general thing:通例,たいてい
- gravitate:引き付けられる,引き寄せられる
- once in a while:時々,時たま
- venture:思い切って〜する
- uncomfortably:心地悪く
- parlor:応接間,居間
- minister:牧師
- paper:壁紙を張る