原文
The Queen's class was organized in due time. Gilbert Blythe, Anne
Shirley, Ruby Gillis, Jane Andrews, Josie Pye, Charlie Sloane, and Moody
Spurgeon MacPherson joined it. Diana Barry did not, as her parents
did not intend to send her to Queen's. This seemed nothing short of a
calamity to Anne. Never, since the night on which Minnie May had had the
croup, had she and Diana been separated in anything. On the evening when
the Queen's class first remained in school for the extra lessons and
Anne saw Diana go slowly out with the others, to walk home alone through
the Birch Path and Violet Vale, it was all the former could do to keep
her seat and refrain from rushing impulsively after her chum. A lump
came into her throat, and she hastily retired behind the pages of her
uplifted Latin grammar to hide the tears in her eyes. Not for worlds
would Anne have had Gilbert Blythe or Josie Pye see those tears.
語彙など
- organize:編成する
- in due time:やがて
- nothing short of:〜に他ならない
- calamity:不幸,苦難
- croup:クループ,ひどい咳がでる喉頭炎
- extra:余分の
- former:〜年生(の生徒)
- refrain from:〜を我慢する
- rush:走る
- impulsively:衝動的に
- chum:親友
- lump:塊
- throat:のど
- hastily:慌てて
- retire:退く
- uplifted:持ち上げた
- Latin grammar:ラテン文法
- not for the world:決して〜しない