GYMNASTICS.

体操

Tuesday, 5th.

周二，五日

As the weather continues extremely fine, they have made us pass from chamber gymnastics to gymnastics with apparatus in the garden.

连日都是好天气，我们停止了室内体操，在校庭中做器械体操。

Garrone was in the head-master's office yesterday when Nelli's mother, that blond woman dressed in black, came in to get her son excused from the new exercises. Every word cost her an effort; and as she spoke, she held one hand on her son's head.

昨天，卡隆到校长室里去的时候，耐利的母亲——那个着黑衣服的白色的妇人——也在那里。要想请求免除耐利的器械体操。她好像很难开口的样子，抚着儿子的头说：

"He is not able to do it," she said to the head-master. But Nelli showed much grief at this exclusion from the apparatus, at having this added humiliation imposed upon him.

“因为这孩子是不能做那样的事的。”耐利却似乎以不加入器械体操为可耻，不肯承认这话。

"You will see, mamma," he said, "that I shall do like the rest."

他说：“母亲！不要紧，我能够的。”

His mother gazed at him in silence, with an air of pity and affection. Then she remarked, in a hesitating way, "I fear lest his companions--"

母亲怜悯地默视着儿子，过了一会儿，踌躇地说：“恐怕别人„„”话未说完就止住了。

What she meant to say was, "lest they should make sport of him."

大概她想说，“恐怕别人嘲弄你，很不放心。”

But Nelli replied:"They will not do anything to me--and then, there is Garrone. It is sufficient for him to be present, to prevent their laughing."

耐利拦住话头说：“他们不会怎么的，——并且有卡隆在一处呢！只要有卡隆在，谁都不会笑我的。”