原文
On the following day Mr. Phillips was seized with one of his spasmodic
fits of reform and announced before going home to dinner, that he should
expect to find all the scholars in their seats when he returned. Anyone
who came in late would be punished.
All the boys and some of the girls went to Mr. Bell's spruce grove as usual, fully intending to stay only long enough to "pick a chew." But spruce groves are seductive and yellow nuts of gum beguiling; they picked and loitered and strayed; and as usual the first thing that recalled them to a sense of the flight of time was Jimmy Glover shouting from the top of a patriarchal old spruce "Master's coming."
語彙など
- be seized with:〜に取り付かれる
- spasmodic:痙攣性の
- fit:一時的激発
- reform:改革
- spruce:トウヒ,マツ科トウヒ属の常緑高木
- grove:林
- as usual:いつものとおり
- chew:一口
- seductive:誘惑的な
- nut:木の実
- beguiling:魅力的な
- loiter:あてもなくぶらつく
- stray:道からそれる
- recall:思い出させる
- flight of time:時の経過
- patriarchal:家長の,長老の