原文
There were sounds of riot and mirth in the little stone house that
night. What with cooking and feasting and making candy and laughing and
"pretending," it is quite true that Miss Lavendar and Anne comported
themselves in a fashion entirely unsuited to the dignity of a spinster
of forty-five and a sedate schoolma'am. Then, when they were tired, they
sat down on the rug before the grate in the parlor, lighted only by the
soft fireshine and perfumed deliciously by Miss Lavendar's open rose-jar
on the mantel. The wind had risen and was sighing and wailing around
the eaves and the snow was thudding softly against the windows, as if a
hundred storm sprites were tapping for entrance.
語彙など
- riot:騒動
- mirth:浮かれ騒ぎ,歓楽
- what with A and B:A やら B やらで
- feast:ごちそうする
- comport:振る舞う
- entirely:まったく
- unsuited:不適当な
- dignity:品位
- spinster:ハイミス,未婚女性
- sedate:落ち着いた
- rug:敷物
- grate:暖炉
- parlor:応接間
- perfumed:芳香を放つ
- deliciously:非常に楽しい,快い
- jar:広口びん,
- mantel:炉棚
- wail:もの悲しい音を出す
- eaves:軒,ひさし
- thud:ドスンと落ちる
- sprite:妖精,精霊
- tap:〜を軽くたたく
- entrance:入り口