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"Ernesto Derossi!"—the boy who always has the first prize. Derossi rose.
“尔耐斯托·代洛西！”——他是每次都得一等赏的学生——代洛西起立了。
"Come here," said the master. Derossi left his bench and stepped up to the little table, facing the Calabrian.
“到这里来！”先生说了，代洛西就离了座位走近格拉勃利亚小孩面前。
"As the head boy in the school," said the master to him, "bestow the embrace of welcome on this new companion, in the name of the whole class—the embrace of the sons of Piedmont to the son of Calabria."
“你是级长。请对这新学友致欢迎辞！请代表譬特蒙脱的小孩，表示欢迎格拉勒利亚的小孩！”
Derossi embraced the Calabrian, saying in his clear voice, "Welcome!" and the other kissed him impetuously on the cheeks. All clapped their hands. "Silence!" cried the master; "don't clap your hands in school!" But it was evident that he was pleased. And the Calabrian was pleased also. The master assigned him a place, and accompanied him to the bench. Then he said again:—
代洛西听见先生这样说，就抱了那小孩的头颈，用了响亮的声音说：“来得很好！”格拉到利亚小孩也热烈地吻代洛西的烦。我们都拍手喝彩。先生虽然说：“静些静些！在教室内不可以拍手！”而自己也很欢喜。格拉动利亚小孩也欢喜。一等到先生指定了座位，那个小孩就归座了。先生又说：
"Bear well in mind what I have said to you. In order that this case might occur, that a Calabrian boy should be as though in his own house at Turin, and that a boy from Turin should be at home in Calabria, our country fought for fifty years, and thirty thousand Italians died. You must all respect and love each other; but any one of you who should give offence to this comrade, because he was not born in our province, would render himself unworthy of ever again raising his eyes from the earth when he passes the tricolored flag."
“请你们好好记着我方才的话。格拉勃利亚的小孩到了丘林，要同住在自己家里一样。丘林的小孩到了格拉勃利亚，也应该毫不觉得寂寞。实对你们说，我国为此曾打了五十年的仗，有三万的同胞为此战死。所以你们大家要互相敬爱。如果有谁因为他不是本地人，对这新学友无礼，那就没有资格来见我们的三色旗！”
Hardly was the Calabrian seated in his place, when his neighbors presented him with pens and a print; and another boy, from the last bench, sent him a Swiss postage-stamp.
格拉动利亚小孩归到座位。和他邻席的学生有送他钢笔的，有送他画片的，最末一张长凳上的另一个男孩，还送了他一张瑞士的邮票。
