原文
"The last Wednesday in August. They are to be married in the garden
under the honeysuckle trellis . . . the very spot where Mr. Irving
proposed to her twenty-five years ago. Marilla, that IS romantic, even
in prose. There's to be nobody there except Mrs. Irving and Paul and
Gilbert and Diana and I, and Miss Lavendar's cousins. And they will
leave on the six o'clock train for a trip to the Pacific coast. When
they come back in the fall Paul and Charlotta the Fourth are to go up to
Boston to live with them. But Echo Lodge is to be left just as it is. . .
only of course they'll sell the hens and cow, and board up the windows
. . . and every summer they're coming down to live in it. I'm so glad. It
would have hurt me dreadfully next winter at Redmond to think of that
dear stone house all stripped and deserted, with empty rooms . . . or far
worse still, with other people living in it. But I can think of it now,
just as I've always seen it, waiting happily for the summer to bring
life and laughter back to it again."
語彙など
- honeysuckle:スイカズラ
- trellis:棚(ブドウなどの)
- in prose:散文で
- hen:雌鳥
- board up:板で囲う
- dreadfully:すごく
- strip:〜を剥ぎ取る
- desert:見捨てる