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"Go, my dear boy," said the superintendent; "and may God protect you!"
“好好回去，要更加用功呢！”视学官对泼来可西说。
It was the hour for dismissing the school. Our class got out before the others. As soon as we were outside the door, whom should we espy there, in the large hall, just at the entrance? The father of Precossi, the blacksmith, pallid as was his wont, with fierce face, hair hanging over his eyes, his cap awry, and unsteady on his legs. The teacher caught sight of him instantly, and whispered to the superintendent. The latter sought out Precossi in haste, and taking him by the hand, he led him to his father. The boy was trembling. The boy and the superintendent approached; many boys collected around them.
功课已完毕了，我们一级比别级先出教室。走出门外，见接待室里来了一个想不到的人，那就是做铁匠的泼来可西的父亲。他仍然脸色苍白，歪戴了帽子，头发长得要盖着眼，抖抖索索地站着。先生见了他，同视学官附耳低声说了几句。视学官就去找泼来可西，携了他的手一同到他父亲的旁边。泼来可西震栗起来，学生们都群集在他的周围。
"Is it true that you are the father of this lad?" demanded the superintendent of the blacksmith, with a cheerful air, as though they were friends. And, without awaiting a reply:--
“是这孩子的父亲吗？”视学宫快活地对铁匠说，好像见了熟识的朋友一样。并且不等他回答，又继续说：
"I rejoice with you. Look: he has won the second medal over fifty-four of his comrades. He has deserved it by his composition, his arithmetic, everything. He is a boy of great intelligence and good will, who will accomplish great things; a fine boy, who possesses the affection and esteem of all. You may feel proud of him, I assure you."
“恭喜！你看！你儿子超越了五十四个同级的得了二等奖了。作文、算术，一切都好。既有才，又能用功，将来必定成大事业。他心情善良，为大家所尊敬，真是好孩子！你见了也该欢喜吧。”
The blacksmith, who had stood there with open mouth listening to him, stared at the superintendent and the headmaster, and then at his son, who was standing before him with downcast eyes and trembling; and as though he had remembered and comprehended then, for the first time, all that he had made the little fellow suffer, and all the goodness, the heroic constancy, with which the latter had borne it, he displayed in his countenance a certain stupid wonder, then a sullen remorse, and finally a sorrowful and impetuous tenderness, and with a rapid gesture he caught the boy round the head and strained him to his breast. We all passed before them. I invited him to come to the house on Thursday, with Garrone and Crossi; others saluted him; one bestowed a caress on him, another touched his medal, all said something to him; and his father stared at us in amazement, as he still held his son's head pressed to his breast, while the boy sobbed.
铁匠张开了口只是听着。他看看视学官，看看校长，又看看俯首战栗着的自己的儿子。好像到了这时，他才知道自己这样虐待儿子，儿子却总是坚强地忍耐着的。他脸上不觉露出茫然的惊讶和惭愧的情爱，急把儿子的头抱在自己的胸前。我们都在他们前面走过。我约泼来可西在下礼拜四和卡隆、克洛西同到我家里来。大家都向他道贺：有的去拖他，有的用手去摸他的赏牌，不论哪个走过他旁边总有一点表示。泼来可西的父亲用惊异的眼色注视着我们，他还是将儿子的头贴在胸前，他儿子啜泣着。
