原文
"I don't feel as if I ought to let you give it up," said Marilla,
referring to the scholarship.
"But you can't prevent me. I'm sixteen and a half, 'obstinate as a mule,' as Mrs. Lynde once told me," laughed Anne. "Oh, Marilla, don't you go pitying me. I don't like to be pitied, and there is no need for it. I'm heart glad over the very thought of staying at dear Green Gables. Nobody could love it as you and I do--so we must keep it."
語彙など
- give up:〜をあきらめる
- refer to:〜に言及する,〜について触れる
- scholarship:奨学金
- prevent:阻む,阻止する
- obstinate as a mule:ラバのように頑固な
- go ~ing:(しばしば非難･軽蔑の意を含めて)…するようなことをする
- pity:哀れむ