原文
ON the Monday evening before the picnic Marilla came down from her room
with a troubled face.
"Anne," she said to that small personage, who was shelling peas by the spotless table and singing, "Nelly of the Hazel Dell" with a vigor and expression that did credit to Diana's teaching, "did you see anything of my amethyst brooch? I thought I stuck it in my pincushion when I came home from church yesterday evening, but I can't find it anywhere."
"I--I saw it this afternoon when you were away at the Aid Society," said Anne, a little slowly. "I was passing your door when I saw it on the cushion, so I went in to look at it."
語彙など
- troubled:不安な,困った
- personage:人
- shell peas:エンドウのさやをむく
- spotless:塵一つない,きれいな
- Nelly of the Hazel Dell:はしばみの谷のネリー(?)
- vigor:活力,元気
- expression:表情
- credit to:〜に帰する
- amethyst:アメシスト,紫水晶
- pincushion:針差し,針山