原文
"Haven't you heard? Well, there's a family of Donnells, for one thing.
They've rented Peter Sloane's old house. Peter has hired the man to run
his mill. They belong down east and nobody knows anything about them.
Then that shiftless Timothy Cotton family are going to move up from
White Sands and they'll simply be a burden on the public. He is
in consumption . . . when he isn't stealing . . . and his wife is a
slack-twisted creature that can't turn her hand to a thing. She washes
her dishes SITTING DOWN. Mrs. George Pye has taken her husband's orphan
nephew, Anthony Pye. He'll be going to school to you, Anne, so you may
expect trouble, that's what. And you'll have another strange pupil, too.
Paul Irving is coming from the States to live with his grandmother.
You remember his father, Marilla . . . Stephen Irving, him that jilted
Lavendar Lewis over at Grafton?"
語彙など
- for one thing:例えば,まず一例を挙げると
- rent:賃貸しする,賃借りする
- hire:〜を雇う
- run:運営する,経営する
- mill:製粉所,水車場
- shiftless:やる気のない,役に立たない
- burden:重荷,負担
- public:一般市民
- consumption:消費
- steal:〜を盗む
- slack:不注意な,のろい
- twisted:ひねくれた
- creature:生き物
- turn one's hand to:〜に手を出す,始める
- jilt:(恋人を)捨てる,(恋人と)別れる