原文
That night there was blank dismay in every Avonlea house where an
Improver lived. The gloom at Green Gables was so intense that it
quenched even Davy. Anne wept and would not be comforted.
"I must cry, even if I am almost seventeen, Marilla," she sobbed. "It is so mortifying. And it sounds the death knell of our society. We'll simply be laughed out of existence."
語彙など
- blank:空虚な,ぼんやりした
- dismay:落胆,幻滅
- gloom:陰気,意気消沈
- intense:強烈な
- quench:熱をさます
- weep:嘆き悲しむ
- comfort:慰める
- sob:すすり泣く
- mortify:悔しがらせる
- death knell:死の前兆,死の宣告