原文
Davy was not feeling comfortable, though he would have died before he
admitted it to Dora. Now that the exhilaration of truant delights had
died away, his conscience was beginning to give him salutary twinges.
After all, perhaps it would have been better to have gone to Sunday
School and church. Mrs. Lynde might be bossy; but there was always a
box of cookies in her kitchen cupboard and she was not stingy. At this
inconvenient moment Davy remembered that when he had torn his new school
pants the week before, Mrs. Lynde had mended them beautifully and never
said a word to Marilla about them.
語彙など
- now that:(that 以下)した上は
- exhilaration:爽快な気分
- truant:無断欠席の
- die away:消えてゆく
- conscience:良心
- salutary:有益な
- twinge:苦痛
- bossy:偉そうな
- stingy:けちな
- tear:〜を引き裂く
- mend:修理する