原文
"Everything," moaned Anne. "I feel as if I were disgraced forever. What
do you think a mother would feel like if she found her child tattooed
over with a baking powder advertisement? I feel just the same. I loved
my poor little story, and I wrote it out of the best that was in me.
And it is SACRILEGE to have it degraded to the level of a baking powder
advertisement. Don't you remember what Professor Hamilton used to tell
us in the literature class at Queen's? He said we were never to write
a word for a low or unworthy motive, but always to cling to the very
highest ideals. What will he think when he hears I've written a story to
advertise Rollings Reliable? And, oh, when it gets out at Redmond! Think
how I'll be teased and laughed at!"
語彙など
- moan:うめき声を出す
- disgrace:〜の面目を失わせる
- tattoo:入れ墨をする
- baking powder:ベーキングパウダー
- advertisement:広告
- sacrilege:神聖冒涜
- degrade:低下させる
- literature:文学
- unworthy motive:卑劣な動機
- cling to:〜に忠実である
- tease:からかう