原文
"Your new dress is rather becoming to you, Anne. Really, you look ALMOST
PRETTY in it."
"How kind of you to say so," responded Anne, with dancing eyes. Her sense of humor was developing, and the speeches that would have hurt her at fourteen were becoming merely food for amusement now. Josie suspected that Anne was laughing at her behind those wicked eyes; but she contented herself with whispering to Gertie, as they went downstairs, that Anne Shirley would put on more airs than ever now that she was going to college--you'd see!
語彙など
- become:〜に似合う
- respond:返答する
- amusement:楽しみ
- wicked:意地の悪い
- content:〜を満足させる
- whisper to:〜にささやく
- put on airs:格好をつける,尊大ぶる