原文
The day finally came when Anne must go to town. She and Matthew drove
in one fine September morning, after a tearful parting with Diana and an
untearful practical one--on Marilla's side at least--with Marilla. But
when Anne had gone Diana dried her tears and went to a beach picnic at
White Sands with some of her Carmody cousins, where she contrived
to enjoy herself tolerably well; while Marilla plunged fiercely into
unnecessary work and kept at it all day long with the bitterest kind of
heartache--the ache that burns and gnaws and cannot wash itself away
in ready tears. But that night, when Marilla went to bed, acutely and
miserably conscious that the little gable room at the end of the
hall was untenanted by any vivid young life and unstirred by any soft
breathing, she buried her face in her pillow, and wept for her girl in
a passion of sobs that appalled her when she grew calm enough to reflect
how very wicked it must be to take on so about a sinful fellow creature.
語彙など
- tearful:涙を誘う,涙でいっぱいの
- part with:〜と別れる
- practical:現実的な
- dry:乾かす
- contrive to:どうにかして〜する
- tolerably:耐えられるほどに
- plunge into:急に〜し始める
- bitter:悲痛な
- heartache:心痛,悲嘆
- ache:痛み
- gnaw:苦しめる,悩ます
- wash away:洗い流す,押し流す
- acutely:強く,激しく
- miserably:惨めに
- conscious:意識する
- untenanted:空いている
- vivid:生き生きとした
- unstirred:かき乱されない
- bury:埋める
- pillow:まくら
- weep:すすり泣く
- passion:情熱
- sob:すすり泣き
- appall:ひどくショックを与える
- calm:冷静
- reflect:思案する
- wicked:とてもひどい
- take on:取り乱す
- sinful:罪深い
- fellow creature:人間同士