Franti Expelled from School.
勿兰谛的斥退
Saturday, 21st.
星期六，11日。

Only one boy was capable of laughing while Derossi was declaiming the funeral oration of the king, and Franti laughed. I detest that fellow. He is wicked. When a father comes to the school to reprove his son, he enjoys it; when any one cries, he laughs. He trembles before Garrone, and he strikes the little mason because he is small; he torments Crossi because he has a helpless arm; he ridicules Precossi, whom every one respects; he even jeers at Robetti, that boy in the second grade who walks on crutches, through having saved a child. He provokes those who are weaker than himself, and when it comes to blows, he grows ferocious and tries to do harm. There is something beneath that low forehead, in those turbid eyes, which he keeps nearly concealed under the visor of his small cap of waxed cloth, which inspires a shudder. He fears no one; he laughs in the master's face; he steals when he gets a chance; he denies it with an impenetrable countenance; he is always engaged in a quarrel with someone; he brings big pins to school, to prick his neighbors with; he tears the buttons from his own jackets and from those of others, and plays with them: his paper, books, and copy-books are all crushed, torn, dirty; his ruler is jagged, his pens gnawed, his nails bitten, his clothes covered with stains and rents which he has got in his brawls. They say that his mother has fallen ill from the trouble that he causes her, and that his father has driven him from the house three times; his mother comes every now and then to make inquiries, and she always goes away in tears. He hates school, he hates his companions, he hates the teacher.
代洛西读着维多利亚·爱马努爱列王的吊词的时候，笑的只有一人，就是勿兰谛。勿兰谛真讨厌，他确是个坏人。父亲到校里来骂他，他反高兴，见人家哭了，他反笑了起来。他在卡隆的面前胆小得发抖，碰见那怯弱的“小石匠”或一只手不会动的克洛西，就要欺侮他们。他嘲消大家所敬服的泼来可西，甚至于对于那因救援幼儿跛了脚的三年生洛佩谛，也要加以嘲弄。他和弱小的人吵闹了，自己还要发怒，务必要对手负了伤才爽快。帽子戴得很低，他那深藏在帽檐下的眼光好像含有着什么恶意，谁都见了要害怕的。他在谁的面前都不顾虑，对了先生也会哈哈大笑。有机会的时候，偷窃也来，偷窃了东西还装出不知道的神气。时常和人相骂，带了大大的钻子到学校来刺人。不论自己的也好，人家的也好，摘了上衣的纽扣，拿在手里玩。他的纸、书籍、笔记簿都又破又脏，三角板也破碎了，钢笔杆都是牙齿咬过的痕迹，不时咬指甲，衣服非破则龌龊。听说，他母亲为了他曾忧郁得生病，父亲已把他赶出过三次了。母亲常到学校里来探听他的情形，回去的时候，眼睛总是哭得肿肿的。他嫌恶功课，嫌恶朋友，嫌恶先生。