原文
"Bolingbroke!" exclaimed Anne. "Why, that is where I was born."
"Do you really mean it? Why, that makes you a Bluenose after all."
"No, it doesn't," retorted Anne. "Wasn't it Dan O'Connell who said that if a man was born in a stable it didn't make him a horse? I'm Island to the core."
語彙など
- Bolingbroke:ボーリングブローク
- bluenose:極端な保守家,清教徒的な人
- retort:〜に反論する,鋭く言い返す
- stable:馬小屋
- to the core:根っからの