原文
Friday afternoon none of the girls had classes at Redmond. Stella took
the opportunity to write a paper for the Philomathic Society, and was
sitting at the table in the corner of the living-room with an untidy
litter of notes and manuscript on the floor around her. Stella always
vowed she never could write anything unless she threw each sheet down as
she completed it. Anne, in her flannel blouse and serge skirt, with her
hair rather blown from her windy walk home, was sitting squarely in the
middle of the floor, teasing the Sarah-cat with a wishbone. Joseph and
Rusty were both curled up in her lap. A warm plummy odor filled the
whole house, for Priscilla was cooking in the kitchen. Presently she
came in, enshrouded in a huge work-apron, with a smudge of flour on her
nose, to show Aunt Jamesina the chocolate cake she had just iced.
語彙など
- Philomathic Society:an association of persons who love sciences.
- untidy:散らかった
- manuscript:原稿
- vow:誓う
- flannel:フランネル
- serge:サージ,織物
- squarely:きまじめに
- tease:からかう
- wishbone:〔鳥の叉骨に似た〕V字形の物
- plummy:好ましい
- odor:におい
- enshroud:包み隠す
- smudge:染み