There is a book of Revelation in every one's life, as there is in the Bible. Anne read hers that bitter night, as she kept her agonized vigil through the hours of storm and darkness. She loved Gilbert―had always loved him! She knew that now.
第40章の一節
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″I persist in dreaming it, although it has often seemed to me that it could never come true. I dream of a home with a hearth-fire in it, a cat and dog, the footsteps of friends-and you!"
<B>のギルバートを拒絶する一節… ほとんどの翻訳家さんが「we must go on being friends」を「お友達のままでいたい」など和らげて表現するなか、「友達でいなければならない」と “must” を 強い“義務/禁止” としてしっかり直訳しているのは、(完訳版では)村岡訳と、この谷詰訳のみでした。