原文
"Oh, but there are, Marilla," cried Anne eagerly. "I know people who
have seen them. And they are respectable people. Charlie Sloane says
that his grandmother saw his grandfather driving home the cows one night
after he'd been buried for a year. You know Charlie Sloane's grandmother
wouldn't tell a story for anything. She's a very religious woman. And
Mrs. Thomas's father was pursued home one night by a lamb of fire with
its head cut off hanging by a strip of skin. He said he knew it was the
spirit of his brother and that it was a warning he would die within nine
days. He didn't, but he died two years after, so you see it was really
true. And Ruby Gillis says--"
語彙など
- eagerly:一生懸命
- respectable:りっぱな
- bury:埋葬する
- for anything:何をもらっても
- religious:信心深い
- pursue:追いかける,〜に付きまとう
- lamb:子羊,キリスト
- fire:火,苦難,試練
- hang:垂れ下がる
- strip:細長い切れ
- skin:皮膚,皮
- spirit:霊魂,精霊
- warning:警告