原文
"Anne Shirley to Philippa Gordon, greeting.
"Well-beloved, it's high time I was writing you. Here am I, installed once more as a country 'schoolma'am' at Valley Road, boarding at 'Wayside,' the home of Miss Janet Sweet. Janet is a dear soul and very nicelooking; tall, but not over-tall; stoutish, yet with a certain restraint of outline suggestive of a thrifty soul who is not going to be overlavish even in the matter of avoirdupois. She has a knot of soft, crimpy, brown hair with a thread of gray in it, a sunny face with rosy cheeks, and big, kind eyes as blue as forget-me-nots. Moreover, she is one of those delightful, old-fashioned cooks who don't care a bit if they ruin your digestion as long as they can give you feasts of fat things.
語彙など
- greeting:あいさつの言葉
- well-beloved:最愛の人
- install:就任させる
- board:下宿する
- stoutish:太り気味の
- restraint:抑制
- outline:概略
- thrifty:倹約な
- lavish:贅沢な
- avoirdupois:体重,肥満
- knot:結び
- crimpy hair:縮れ髪
- thread:細いもの
- forget-me-not:わすれな草
- digestion:消化
- feast:ごちそう