原文
"If Davy is naughty it's all the more reason why he should have good
training, isn't it, Marilla? If we don't take them we don't know who
will, nor what kind of influences may surround them. Suppose Mrs.
Keith's next door neighbors, the Sprotts, were to take them. Mrs. Lynde
says Henry Sprott is the most profane man that ever lived and you can't
believe a word his children say. Wouldn't it be dreadful to have the
twins learn anything like that? Or suppose they went to the Wiggins'.
Mrs. Lynde says that Mr. Wiggins sells everything off the place that can
be sold and brings his family up on skim milk. You wouldn't like your
relations to be starved, even if they were only third cousins, would
you? It seems to me, Marilla, that it is our duty to take them."
語彙など
- naughty:いたずらな
- influence:影響
- suppose:もし〜だったらどうだろう
- profane:俗悪な,冒とく的な
- dreadful:ひどい,恐ろしい
- sell everything off:ことごとく売却する
- bring up on the bottle:ミルクで育てる
- relation:親戚
- starved:飢えた
- third cousin:またいとこの子