英語で読む『赤毛のアン』Chapter1-14

Mrs. Rachel prided herself on always speaking her mind; she proceeded* to speak it now, having adjusted her mental attitude* to this amazing piece of news.
“Well, Marilla, I’ll just tell you plain* that I think you’re doing a mighty foolish thing*—a risky thing, that’s what. You don’t know what you’re getting. You’re bringing a strange child into your house and home and you don’t know a single thing about him nor what his disposition* is like nor what sort of parents he had nor how he’s likely to turn out*. Why, it was only last week I read in the paper how a man and his wife up west of the Island took a boy out of an orphan asylum* and he set fire* to the house at night—set it on purpose*, Marilla—and nearly burnt them to a crisp* in their beds. And I know another case where an adopted* boy used to suck* the eggs—they couldn’t break him of it*. If you had asked my advice in the matter—which you didn’t do, Marilla—I’d have said for mercy’s sake* not to think of such a thing, that’s what.”