赤毛のアンの原文を少しずつ、ほぼ週一ペースで読んでいます。
今回は10回目。
チャプター1の17~20段落目部分です。
【前回までのおさらい】
「あのマシューが珍しく馬車で出かけるから医者を呼びにでも行ったのかと思ったわ!」
と、ご近所に住む世話焼き大好きレイチェル夫人が様子を伺いにやって来て。。
【本文】
“Oh, no, I’m quite well although* I had a bad headache yesterday,” she said. “Matthew went to Bright River. We’re getting a little boy from an orphan asylum* in Nova Scotia* and he’s coming on the train tonight.”
If Marilla had said that Matthew had gone to Bright River to meet a kangaroo from Australia Mrs. Rachel could not have been more astonished*. She was actually stricken dumb* for five seconds. It was unsupposable* that Marilla was making fun of her*, but Mrs. Rachel was almost forced to suppose it.
“Are you in earnest*, Marilla?” she demanded when voice returned to her.
“Yes, of course,” said Marilla, as if getting boys from orphan asylums in Nova Scotia were part of the usual spring work on any well-regulated* Avonlea farm instead of being an unheard of innovation*.
文字数の関係でコチラには載せきれないため、語彙説明などはnoteをご覧ください。
https://note.com/kobachism/n/nc5ac3dc07373
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