原文
One May day Avonlea folks were mildly excited over some "Avonlea
Notes," signed "Observer," which appeared in the Charlottetown 'Daily
Enterprise.' Gossip ascribed the authorship thereof to Charlie Sloane,
partly because the said Charlie had indulged in similar literary flights
in times past, and partly because one of the notes seemed to embody a
sneer at Gilbert Blythe. Avonlea juvenile society persisted in regarding
Gilbert Blythe and Charlie Sloane as rivals in the good graces of a
certain damsel with gray eyes and an imagination.
語彙など
folks:人々
- mildly:少し
- observer:観察者
- gossip:うわさ話
- ascribe:〜に帰する
- authorship:生みの親
- thereof:それについて
- said:上述の
- indulge in:〜にふける
- literary:文学の
- flight:(才気の)ほとばしり
- in times past:過去に
- embody:体現する
- sneer at:を冷笑する
- juvenile:年少者の
- persist in:〜を固持する
- regard:〜を〜とみなす
- rival:好敵手
- grace:恩恵
- damsel:乙女