原文
"But I want to FEEL that it is in perfect order, even if she isn't to
see it," Anne told Marilla. "You know, in her book 'Golden Keys,' she
makes her two heroines Alice and Louisa take for their motto that verse
of Longfellow's,
'In the elder days of art Builders wrought with greatest care Each minute and unseen part, For the gods see everywhere,'
and so they always kept their cellar stairs scrubbed and never forgot to sweep under the beds. I should have a guilty conscience if I thought this closet was in disorder when Mrs. Morgan was in the house. Ever since we read 'Golden Keys,' last April, Diana and I have taken that verse for our motto too."
語彙など
- order:秩序
- verse:詩
- Longfellow:ロングフェロー,Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-82;米国の詩人)
- motto:モットー,座右の銘
- elder:年長の
- wrought:work の過去･過去分詞形
- with care:丁寧に,念入りに
- cellar:地下室
- scrub:〜を磨きあげる
- sweep under:〜の下を掃く
- guilty conscience:良心のとがめ
- in disorder:取り散らかして