原文
Anne was not without a feeble hope that something might come of it after
all. But nothing did. John Douglas came and took Janet driving, and
walked home from prayer-meeting with her, as he had been doing for
twenty years, and as he seemed likely to do for twenty years more. The
summer waned. Anne taught her school and wrote letters and studied a
little. Her walks to and from school were pleasant. She always went by
way of the swamp; it was a lovely place--a boggy soil, green with the
greenest of mossy hillocks; a silvery brook meandered through it and
spruces stood erectly, their boughs a-trail with gray-green mosses,
their roots overgrown with all sorts of woodland lovelinesses.
語彙など
- feeble:弱々しい
- prayer meeting:祈祷会
- wane:終わりに近づく
- swamp:沼地
- boggy:沼地の,ジクジクした
- soil:土壌,土
- mossy:コケで覆われた
- hillock:小さい丘
- silvery:銀のような
- brook:小川
- meander:曲がりくねって流れる
- spruce:トウヒ
- erectly:まっすぐに
- bough:大枝
- trail:痕跡