原文
"It's lovely to be going home and know it's home," she said. "I love
Green Gables already, and I never loved any place before. No place ever
seemed like home. Oh, Marilla, I'm so happy. I could pray right now and
not find it a bit hard."
Something warm and pleasant welled up in Marilla's heart at touch of that thin little hand in her own--a throb of the maternity she had missed, perhaps. Its very unaccustomedness and sweetness disturbed her. She hastened to restore her sensations to their normal calm by inculcating a moral.
"If you'll be a good girl you'll always be happy, Anne. And you should never find it hard to say your prayers."
語彙など
- pray:祈る
- right now:今すぐ
- well up:わき上がる
- throb:興奮
- unaccustomedness:不慣れなこと
- sweetness:甘さ
- restore:取り戻す
- sensation:感覚,気持ち
- inculcate:繰り返し教え込む,熱心に説き聞きかせる
- moral:道徳
- prayer:祈り