原文
"I don't think there is much fear of your dying of grief as long as you
can talk, Anne," said Marilla unsympathetically.
The following Monday Anne surprised Marilla by coming down from her room with her basket of books on her arm and hip and her lips primmed up into a line of determination.
"I'm going back to school," she announced. "That is all there is left in life for me, now that my friend has been ruthlessly torn from me. In school I can look at her and muse over days departed."
語彙など
- fear:心配
- grief:悲嘆
- as long as:〜する限りは
- unsympathetically:同情しないで
- following:次の
- lip:唇
- prim:ぎゅっと結ぶ
- determination:決意
- ruthlessly:情け容赦なく
- muse:考えにふける
- depart:去る