原文
"It isn't true surely, Anne?" exclaimed Gilbert.
"It is true," answered Anne, looking like the muse of tragedy. "Mrs. Lynde called on her way from Carmody to tell me. Oh, it is simply dreadful! What is the use of trying to improve anything?"
"What is dreadful?" asked Oliver Sloane, arriving at this moment with a bandbox he had brought from town for Marilla.
語彙など
- exclaim:大声で言う
- muse:詩神,瞑想
- tragedy:悲劇
- dreadful:ひどい
- bandbox:バンドボックス(帽子などを入れる円筒形のボール紙[薄板]の箱)