How green the trees have become in these few days! And how I envy the boys whom I see running to school with their books when my father carries me to the window! But I shall go back there soon myself. I am so impatient to see all the boys once more, and my seat, the garden, the streets; to know all that has taken place during the interval; to apply myself to my books again, and to my copy-books, which I seem not to have seen for a year! How pale and thin my poor mother has grown! Poor father! how weary he looks! And my kind companions who came to see me and walked on tiptoe and kissed my brow! It makes me sad, even now, to think that one day we must part. Perhaps I shall continue my studies with Derossi and with some others; but how about all the rest? When the fourth grade is once finished, then good by! we shall never see each other again: I shall never see them again at my bedside when I am ill,--Garrone, Precossi, Coretti, who are such fine boys and kind and dear comrades,--never more!

几天之间树叶又绿了许多。从窗口望去，见孩子们都挟了书到学校去，我真是羡煞！我也快要回到学校里去了，我想快些见到全体同学，看看自己的座位，学校的庭院，以及街市的光景，听听在我生病期内发生的新闻，翻阅翻阅笔记簿和书籍。都好像已有一年不见了哩。可怜我母亲已瘦得苍白了！父亲也很疲劳！来望我的亲切的朋友们都跑近来和我接吻。啊！一想到将来有和这许多朋友别开的时候，我就悲伤起来。我大约是可以和代洛西一同升学的，其余的朋友怎样呢？五年级完了以后就大家别离，从此以后不能再相会了吧！遇到疾病的时候，也不能再在床前看见他们了吧！——卡隆、泼来可西、可莱谛，都是很亲切很要好的朋友。——可是都不长久！