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At times, however, sad sights are to be seen. A gentleman who had not come for a month because one of his sons had died, and who had sent a maidservant for the other, on returning yesterday and beholding the class, the comrades of his little dead boy, retired into a corner and burst into sobs, with both hands before his face, and the head-master took him by the arm and led him to his office.
也有很可怜的事：有一个绅士原是每天领了儿子们来的，因为有个儿子死了，他一个月来只叫女仆代理他伴送。昨天偶然来到学校，见了孩子的朋友，躲在屋角里用手掩着面哭了起来。校长看见了，就拉了他的手，一同到校长室里去了。
There are fathers and mothers who know all their sons' companions by name. There are girls from the neighboring schoolhouse, and scholars in the gymnasium, who come to wait for their brothers. There is one old gentleman who was a colonel formerly, and who, when a boy drops a copy-book or a pen, picks it up for him. There are also to be seen well-dressed men, who discuss school matters with others, who have kerchiefs on their heads, and baskets on their arm, and who say:--
这许多父母中，有的能记住自己儿子所有的朋友的姓名。间壁的女学校或中学校的学生们，也有领了自己的弟弟来的。有一位以前曾做过大佐的老绅士，见学生们有书册、笔记簿掉落了，就代为拾起。在学校里，时常看见有衣服华美的绅士们和头上包着手巾或是手上拿着篮的人，共同谈着儿子的事情，说什么：
"Oh! the problem has been a difficult one this time."--"That grammar lesson will never come to an end this morning!"
“这次的算术题目很难哩！”“那个文法课今天是教不完了。”
And when there is a sick boy in the class, they all know it; when a sick boy is convalescent, they all rejoice. And this morning there were eight or ten gentlemen and workingmen standing around Crossi's mother, the vegetable-vender, making inquiries about a poor baby in my brother's class, who lives in her court, and who is in danger of his life. The school seems to make them all equals and friends.
同级中如果有学生生病，大家就都知道。病一痊愈，大家就都欢喜。今天那克洛西的卖野菜的母亲身边，围立着十个光景的绅士及职工，探问和我弟弟同级的一个孩子的病状。这孩子就住在卖菜的附近，正生着危险的病呢。在学校里，无论什么阶级的人，都成了平等的友人了。
