原文
And now, this thrilling experience had turned out to be merely
grotesque. Billy Andrews had got his sister to propose for him because
his father had given him the upper farm; and if Anne wouldn't "have him"
Nettie Blewett would. There was romance for you, with a vengeance! Anne
laughed--and then sighed. The bloom had been brushed from one little
maiden dream. Would the painful process go on until everything became
prosaic and hum-drum?
語彙など
- turn out to:〜になる
- grotesque:奇怪な,グロテスクな
- vengeance:復讐
- bloom:花,美人
- maiden:乙女の
- prosaic:散文的な,趣のない
- humdrum:平凡な,マンネリの