原文
Public opinion was certainly down on Judson Parker when the facts became
known, but that did not help matters much. Judson chuckled to himself
and defied it, and the Improvers were trying to reconcile themselves to
the prospect of seeing the prettiest part of the Newbridge road defaced
by advertisements, when Anne rose quietly at the president's call
for reports of committees on the occasion of the next meeting of the
Society, and announced that Mr. Judson Parker had instructed her to
inform the Society that he was NOT going to rent his fences to the
Patent Medicine Company.
語彙など
- public opinion:世論
- be down on:〜に対して批判的である
- chuckle to oneself:一人で笑っている
- defy:ものともしない
- reconcile oneself to:〜に甘んじる
- prospect:見通し
- deface:〜の外観を損なう
- advertisement:広告
- president:会長
- at someone's call:(人)の呼び声に応じて
- on the occasion of:〜に際して
- instruct:指示する
- inform:知らせる
- rent:賃貸しする