赤毛のアンの原文を少しずつ、週一ペースで読んでいます。
今回は8回目。
チャプター1の11~13段落目部分です。
【前回までのおさらい】
引きこもりマシューの不審な外出のワケを探るためグリーンゲイブルズにやって来たレイチェル夫人。
引くくらい清潔に保たれたキッチンで、何もかもキチッとしてないと気が済まないマリラが編み物をしています。
マリラの向こうに夕食の準備がしてあるテーブルが見えて。。
【本文】
Mrs. Rachel, before she had fairly* closed the door, had taken a mental note of everything that was on that table. There were three plates laid*, so that Marilla must be expecting some one home with Matthew to tea**; but the dishes were everyday dishes and there was only crab-apple preserves* and one kind of cake, so that the expected company could not be any particular company. Yet what of Matthew’s white collar and the sorrel mare? Mrs. Rachel was getting fairly dizzy with this unusual mystery about quiet, unmysterious Green Gables.
“Good evening, Rachel,” Marilla said briskly*. “This is a real fine evening, isn’t it? Won’t you sit down? How are all your folks*?”
Something that for lack of any other name might be called friendship existed and always had existed between Marilla Cuthbert and Mrs. Rachel, in spite of*—or perhaps because of—their dissimilarity*.
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