原文
Anne walked home very slowly in the moonlight. The evening had changed
something for her. Life held a different meaning, a deeper purpose.
On the surface it would go on just the same; but the deeps had been
stirred. It must not be with her as with poor butterfly Ruby. When she
came to the end of one life it must not be to face the next with the
shrinking terror of something wholly different--something for which
accustomed thought and ideal and aspiration had unfitted her. The little
things of life, sweet and excellent in their place, must not be the
things lived for; the highest must be sought and followed; the life of
heaven must be begun here on earth.
語彙など
- stir:かき混ぜる
- butterfly:不安
- shrink:減少する
- terror:恐怖
- wholly:完全に
- accustomed:慣れた
- aspiration:強い願望
- unfitted:向かない