原文
"Why should I? There are enough folks who do. The world needs people
like me, Anne, just to amuse it. It would be a terrible place if
EVERYBODY were intellectual and serious and in deep, deadly earnest. MY
mission is, as Josiah Allen says, 'to charm and allure.' Confess now.
Hasn't life at Patty's Place been really much brighter and pleasanter
this past winter because I've been here to leaven you?"
"Yes, it has," owned Anne.
語彙など
- intellectual:知的な
- serious:まじめな
- deadly:ひどく
- in earnest:真剣に
- mission:使命
- allure:そそのかす
- confess:白状する
- leaven:〜を徐々に変化させる
- own:認める