原文
"Well, I'm doing my best to grow," said Davy, "but it's a thing you
can't hurry much. If Marilla wasn't so stingy with her jam I believe I'd
grow a lot faster."
"Marilla is not stingy, Davy," said Anne severely. "It is very ungrateful of you to say such a thing."
"There's another word that means the same thing and sounds a lot better, but I don't just remember it," said Davy, frowning intently. "I heard Marilla say she was it, herself, the other day."
語彙など
- do one's best:最善を尽くす
- stingy:けちな,物惜しみする
- severely:厳しく
- ungrateful:恩知らずの
- frown:しかめっ面をする
- intently:一心に