原文
"Splendid," agreed Anne gaily. "And have a rustic seat put under the
birches. And when spring comes we'll have a flower-bed made in the
middle of it and plant geraniums."
"Yes; only we'll have to devise some way of getting old Mrs. Hiram Sloane to keep her cow off the road, or she'll eat our geraniums up," laughed Diana. "I begin to see what you mean by educating public sentiment, Anne. There's the old Boulter house now. Did you ever see such a rookery? And perched right close to the road too. An old house with its windows gone always makes me think of something dead with its eyes picked out."
語彙など
- splendid:素晴らしい
- gaily:陽気に,愉快に
- rustic seat:丸木造りの腰掛け
- birch:樺の木
- flower bed:花壇
- geranium:ゼラニウム
- devise:考え出す,考案する
- keep off:〜に近づかせない
- public sentiment:世論,国民感情
- rookery:共同住宅,貧民窟
- perch:位置する
- pick out:摘出する