ほぼ週一で赤毛のアンの原文を少しずつ朗読しています。
今回は92回目。
チャプター8の1~3段落までの朗読です。
【前回までのおさらい】
マシューとマリラの兄妹はファームの手伝いのため孤児の男の子を迎え入れることにしましたが、やって来たのは赤毛の女の子!
アンが可哀そう過ぎて、気が進まなかったマリラもアンを引き取ることを決意しました。
その夜、マリラはアンに服を畳んでお祈りするよう言うと、アンはお祈りしたことがないと言います。
マリラは驚きマシューのところへ行ってグチりました。
「あの子は異教徒寸前よ。しっかり教えこまなきゃ。
これから忙しくなるわよ」
【本文】
CHAPTER VIII.
Anne’s Bringing-up Is Begun
FOR reasons best known to herself, Marilla did not tell Anne that she was to stay at Green Gables until the next afternoon. During the forenoon she kept the child busy with various tasks and watched over her with a keen eye while she did them. By noon she had concluded that Anne was smart and obedient, willing to work and quick to learn; her most serious shortcoming seemed to be a tendency to fall into daydreams in the middle of a task and forget all about it until such time as she was sharply recalled to earth by a reprimand or a catastrophe.
When Anne had finished washing the dinner dishes she suddenly confronted Marilla with the air and expression of one desperately determined to learn the worst. Her thin little body trembled from head to foot; her face flushed and her eyes dilated until they were almost black; she clasped her hands tightly and said in an imploring voice:
“Oh, please, Miss Cuthbert, won’t you tell me if you are going to send me away or not? I’ve tried to be patient all the morning, but I really feel that I cannot bear not knowing any longer. It’s a dreadful feeling. Please tell me.”
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