原文
"But suppose they don't?" said practical Jane.
"I wouldn't whip them anyhow. I'm sure it wouldn't do any good. Oh, don't whip your pupils, Jane dear, no matter what they do."
"What do you think about it, Gilbert?" demanded Jane. "Don't you think there are some children who really need a whipping now and then?"
"Don't you think it's a cruel, barbarous thing to whip a child . . . ANY child?" exclaimed Anne, her face flushing with earnestness.
語彙など
- suppose:もし〜だったらどうだろう
- practical:現実的な
- whip:〜を鞭で打つ
- anyhow:とにかく
- demand:詰問する
- cruel:残酷な
- barbarous:野蛮な
- flush:紅潮させる
- earnestness:まじめさ,真剣