原文
"Perhaps it won't wash off. First I dye my hair; then I dye my nose.
Marilla cut my hair off when I dyed it but that remedy would hardly be
practicable in this case. Well, this is another punishment for vanity
and I suppose I deserve it . . . though there's not much comfort in THAT.
It is really almost enough to make one believe in ill-luck, though Mrs.
Lynde says there is no such thing, because everything is foreordained."
語彙など
- dye:染める
- remedy:救済策
- practicable:実行できる
- punishment:罰
- vanity:虚栄心
- deserve:〜を受けるに値する
- ill luck:不運
- foreordain:あらかじめ〜の運命を定める