原文
When it became noised abroad in Avonlea that Anne Shirley had given up
the idea of going to college and intended to stay home and teach there
was a good deal of discussion over it. Most of the good folks, not
knowing about Marilla's eyes, thought she was foolish. Mrs. Allan did
not. She told Anne so in approving words that brought tears of pleasure
to the girl's eyes. Neither did good Mrs. Lynde. She came up one evening
and found Anne and Marilla sitting at the front door in the warm,
scented summer dusk. They liked to sit there when the twilight came down
and the white moths flew about in the garden and the odor of mint filled
the dewy air.
語彙など
- noise abroad:言いふらす,広める
- give up:断念する,あきらめる
- foolish:思慮のない,愚かな
- approve:賛成する
- pleasure:喜び
- scent:におわす
- dusk:夕暮れ,たそがれ
- twilight:薄明かり,たそがれ
- moth:蛾
- odor:におい,香り
- mint:ミント
- dewy:露を帯びた