原文
"There's a barrel of it over there," said Miss Harris, shaking her
bangles at it. "It's the only kind we have."
"I'll--I'll take twenty pounds of it," said Matthew, with beads of perspiration standing on his forehead.
Matthew had driven halfway home before he was his own man again. It had been a gruesome experience, but it served him right, he thought, for committing the heresy of going to a strange store. When he reached home he hid the rake in the tool house, but the sugar he carried in to Marilla.
語彙など
- barrel of:たくさんの
- over there:あそこに
- bangle:腕輪
- bead of perspiration:玉の汗
- stand:（汗が）にじむ
- forehead:額
- be one's own man:気が確かである
- gruesome:身の毛もよだつ
- serve someone right:(人)に当然の報いである,受けるべき罰を受ける
- commit:犯す
- heresy:異説,異端
- rake:くま手