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Nelli's Protector
耐利的保护者
Wednesday, 23d.
星期三，23日。
Nelli, too, poor little hunchback! was looking at the soldiers yesterday, but with an air as though he were thinking, "I can never be a soldier!" He is good, and he studies; but he is so puny and wan, and he breathes with difficulty. He always wears a long apron of shining black cloth. His mother is a little blond woman who dresses in black, and always comes to get him at the end of school, so that he may not come out in the confusion with the others, and she caresses him. At first many of the boys ridiculed him, and thumped him on the back with their bags, because he is so unfortunate as to be a hunchback; but he never offered any resistance, and never said anything to his mother, in order not to give her the pain of knowing that her son was the laughing-stock of his companions: they derided him, and he held his peace and wept, with his head laid against the bench.
驼背的耐利，昨日也在看兵士的行军，他的神气很可怜，好像说：“我不能当兵立了。”耐利是个好孩子，成绩也好，身体小而弱，连呼吸都似乎困难。他母亲是个矮小白色的妇人，每到学校放课总来接她儿子回去。最初，别的学生都要嘲弄耐利，有的用革囊去碰他那突出的背。耐利毫不反抗，且不将人家以他为玩物的话告诉他母亲，无论怎样被人捉弄，他只是靠在座位里无言地哭泣。
But one morning Garrone jumped up and said, "The first person who touches Nelli will get such a box on the ear from me that he will spin round three times!"
有一天，卡隆突然跳了出来对大家说：“你们再碰耐利一碰看！我一个耳光，要他转三个旋子！”
Franti paid no attention to him; the box on the ear was delivered: the fellow spun round three times, and from that time forth no one ever touched Nelli again. The master placed Garrone near him, on the same bench. They have become friends. Nelli has grown very fond of Garrone. As soon as he enters the schoolroom he looks to see if Garrone is there. He never goes away without saying, "Good by, Garrone," and Garrone does the same with him.
勿兰谛不相信这话，当真尝了卡隆的老拳，一拳打去果然转了三个旋子。从此以后，再没有人敢捉弄耐利了。先生知道了，使卡隆和耐利同坐一张桌子。两人很要好，耐利尤其爱着卡隆，他到教室里，必要先着卡隆有没有到，回去的时候，没有一次不说“卡隆再会”的。
