原文
"Why, Anne, how you've grown!" she said, almost unbelievingly. A sigh
followed on the words. Marilla felt a queer regret over Anne's inches.
The child she had learned to love had vanished somehow and here was this
tall, serious-eyed girl of fifteen, with the thoughtful brows and the
proudly poised little head, in her place. Marilla loved the girl as much
as she had loved the child, but she was conscious of a queer sorrowful
sense of loss. And that night, when Anne had gone to prayer meeting
with Diana, Marilla sat alone in the wintry twilight and indulged in the
weakness of a cry. Matthew, coming in with a lantern, caught her at it
and gazed at her in such consternation that Marilla had to laugh through
her tears.
語彙など
- sigh:ため息
- queer:奇妙な
- regret:後悔
- vanish:(姿を)消す
- brow:まゆ,額
- poised:落ち着きのある
- in someone's place:の代わりに
- conscious:気付いて
- sorrowful:悲しい
- sense of loss:喪失感
- prayer meeting:祈祷会
- wintry:冬の
- twilight:黄昏どき
- indulge in:〜にふける
- lantern:ランタン,カンテラ
- consternation:驚愕,仰天