原文
"Indeed you, may" said Anne unselfishly. "And I shall want you to help
me decorate too. I mean to have the parlor simply a BOWER of blossoms
. . . and the dining table is to be adorned with wild roses. Oh, I do
hope everything will go smoothly. Mrs. Morgan's heroines NEVER get
into scrapes or are taken at a disadvantage, and they are always so
selfpossessed and such good housekeepers. They seem to be BORN good
housekeepers. You remember that Gertrude in 'Edgewood Days' kept house
for her father when she was only eight years old. When I was eight
years old I hardly knew how to do a thing except bring up children. Mrs.
Morgan must be an authority on girls when she has written so much about
them, and I do want her to have a good opinion of us. I've imagined
it all out a dozen different ways . . . what she'll look like, and what
she'll say, and what I'll say. And I'm so anxious about my nose. There
are seven freckles on it, as you can see. They came at the A.V.I S.
picnic, when I went around in the sun without my hat. I suppose it's
ungrateful of me to worry over them, when I should be thankful they're
not spread all over my face as they once were; but I do wish they hadn't
come . . . all Mrs. Morgan's heroines have such perfect complexions. I
can't recall a freckled one among them."
語彙など
- unselfishly:寛大に
- decorate:飾る
- parlor:応接室
- bower:あずまや,木陰の休息所
- blossom:花
- adorn:飾る
- go smoothly:思うように運ぶ
- heroine:ヒロイン
- get into scrapes with:〜と問題を起こす
- be taken at a disadvantage:不意打ちを食らう
- self-possessed:沈着な,冷静な
- good housekeeper:家事の切り盛りが上手な婦人
- keep house:家事を切り盛りする
- except:〜を除いて
- bring up:育てる
- authority on:〜に詳しい人
- have a good opinion of:〜を高く評価する
- anxious:気になる
- freckle:そばかす
- ungrateful:嫌な
- spread all over:〜一面に広がる
- complexion:顔色,外観
- recall:思い出す