原文
Anne paused by the railing and looked at the worn stone, her pulses
thrilling with sudden excitement. The old graveyard, with its
over-arching trees and long aisles of shadows, faded from her sight.
Instead, she saw the Kingsport Harbor of nearly a century agone. Out of
the mist came slowly a great frigate, brilliant with "the meteor flag of
England." Behind her was another, with a still, heroic form, wrapped in
his own starry flag, lying on the quarter deck--the gallant Lawrence.
Time's finger had turned back his pages, and that was the Shannon
sailing triumphant up the bay with the Chesapeake as her prize.
語彙など
- pause:ちょっと止まる
- pulse:鼓動
- thrill:興奮する
- arching:アーチを形成する
- aisle:細長い通路
- fade from:〜から見えなくなる
- agone:agoの古語
- mist:霧,霞
- frigate:フリゲート艦
- brilliant:光り輝く
- meteor:流星,隕石
- starry:星形の,星の多い
- quarter deck:船尾甲板
- gallant:勇ましい,堂々とした
- triumphant:勝利を収めた,意気揚々とした
- prize:拿捕した船