原文
"Oh, Miss Shirley, ma'am, it's awful to call you so early," came wailing
through the keyhole, "but there's so much to do yet . . . and oh, Miss
Shirley, ma'am, I'm skeered it's going to rain and I wish you'd get up
and tell me you think it ain't." Anne flew to the window, hoping against
hope that Charlotta the Fourth was saying this merely by way of rousing
her effectually. But alas, the morning did look unpropitious. Below the
window Miss Lavendar's garden, which should have been a glory of pale
virgin sunshine, lay dim and windless; and the sky over the firs was
dark with moody clouds.
語彙など
- awful:ひどい
- wail:泣き叫ぶ
- keyhole:鍵穴
- skeered:scared(?)
- merely:単に
- by way of:〜する目的で
- rouse:目覚めさせる
- effectually:効果的に
- alas:あーあ,悲しいかな
- unpropitious:不吉な
- pale:薄い,淡い色の
- virgin:純潔の
- dim:ぼんやりとした
- windless:風のない
- fir:モミ
- moody:憂鬱な