原文
Mrs. Rachel Lynde was sitting at her kitchen window, knitting a quilt,
just as she had been sitting one evening several years previously when
Matthew Cuthbert had driven down over the hill with what Mrs. Rachel
called "his imported orphan." But that had been in springtime; and this
was late autumn, and all the woods were leafless and the fields sere and
brown. The sun was just setting with a great deal of purple and golden
pomp behind the dark woods west of Avonlea when a buggy drawn by a
comfortable brown nag came down the hill. Mrs. Rachel peered at it
eagerly.
語彙など
- knit:編む
- quilt:キルト,キルト刺繍
- import:輸入する,持ち込む
- orphan:孤児
- leafless:葉のない,落葉した
- sere:しなびた,ひからびた
- purple:紫色の
- pomp:壮麗,豪華
- buggy:バギー,一頭立て軽装馬車
- nag:老いぼれた馬,競走馬
- peer at:じっと見つめる