原文
It was quite true. Overcome by the pain of her injury, Anne had one more
of her wishes granted to her. She had fainted dead away.
Matthew, hastily summoned from the harvest field, was straightway dispatched for the doctor, who in due time came, to discover that the injury was more serious than they had supposed. Anne's ankle was broken.
That night, when Marilla went up to the east gable, where a white-faced girl was lying, a plaintive voice greeted her from the bed.
語彙など
- injury:負傷
- grant:与える,〜をかなえてやる
- faint:気絶する
- summon:呼び出す
- straightway:一直線に
- dispatch:派遣する
- in due time:そのうちに,やがて
- ankle:足首
- plaintive:悲しげな,哀れな
- greet:〜を出迎える