原文
Anne listened in shocked silence. Ruby Gillis, her old school-chum,
dying? Could it be possible? Of late years they had grown apart; but the
old tie of school-girl intimacy was there, and made itself felt sharply
in the tug the news gave at Anne's heartstrings. Ruby, the brilliant,
the merry, the coquettish! It was impossible to associate the thought of
her with anything like death. She had greeted Anne with gay cordiality
after church, and urged her to come up the next evening.
語彙など
- chum:仲間
- of late years:近年
- grow apart:別れる
- intimacy:親密さ
- tug:強く引くこと
- heartstrings:心の琴線,深い感情
- coquettish:ちょっと色っぽくて可愛らしい
- associate:結びつけて考える
- gay:陽気な
- cordiality:心からの友情