原文
"The trouble with you, Anne, is that you're thinking too much about
yourself. You should just think of Mrs. Allan and what would be nicest
and most agreeable to her," said Marilla, hitting for once in her life
on a very sound and pithy piece of advice. Anne instantly realized this.
"You are right, Marilla. I'll try not to think about myself at all."
Anne evidently got through her visit without any serious breach of "etiquette," for she came home through the twilight, under a great, high-sprung sky gloried over with trails of saffron and rosy cloud, in a beatified state of mind and told Marilla all about it happily, sitting on the big red-sandstone slab at the kitchen door with her tired curly head in Marilla's gingham lap.
語彙など
- agreeable:快い
- once in one' life:一生に一度
- sound:健全な
- pithy:簡潔な,力強い
- hit on an idea:着想が浮かぶ
- instantly:直ちに
- get through:切り抜ける,乗り切る
- breach of etiquette:無作法,エチケット違反
- trail:跡
- saffron:サフラン色,鮮やかな黄色
- beatify:幸福にする
- sandstone:砂岩
- curly:巻き毛の
- gingham:ギンガム(チェックまたはストライプの平織布地)