原文
When her dishes were washed and her bread sponge set and her hens fed
Marilla remembered that she had noticed a small rent in her best black
lace shawl when she had taken it off on Monday afternoon on returning
from the Ladies' Aid.
She would go and mend it. The shawl was in a box in her trunk. As Marilla lifted it out, the sunlight, falling through the vines that clustered thickly about the window, struck upon something caught in the shawl--something that glittered and sparkled in facets of violet light. Marilla snatched at it with a gasp. It was the amethyst brooch, hanging to a thread of the lace by its catch!
語彙など
- sponge:酵母を入れて膨らませたパン生地
- hen:メンドリ,雌鳥
- feed:〜に食物を与える
- rent:裂け目
- shawl:ショール
- Ladies Aid:所属教会のための地方婦人募金団体
- mend:修繕する
- vine:つる
- cluster:群がる,房になる
- glitter:ピカピカ光る
- sparkle:きらめく,輝く
- facet:宝石などの小平面
- snatch at:〜を引っつかもうとする
- gasp:ハッと息をのむこと
- thread:糸