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MY FATHER.
我的父親
Saturday, 17th.
十七日，星期六
Surely, neither your comrade Coretti nor Garrone would ever have answered their fathers as you answered yours this afternoon. Enrico! How is it possible? You must promise me solemnly that this shall never happen again so long as I live. Every time that an impertinent reply flies to your lips at a reproof from your father, think of that day which will infallibly come when he will call you to his bedside to tell you, "Enrico, I am about to leave you." Oh, my son, when you hear his voice for the last time, and for a long while afterwards, when you weep alone in his deserted room, in the midst of those books which he will never open again, then, on recalling that you have at times been wanting in respect to him, you, too, will ask yourself, "How is it possible?"
如果是你的朋友可萊諦或卡隆，像你今天那樣回答父親的話，決不至出口吧。安利柯！為什么這樣??！快向我立誓，以后不要再有那樣的事。因了父親責備你，口中露出失禮的答辯來的時候，應該想到將來有一天，父親叫你到臥榻旁去，和你說：“安利柯！永訣了！”??！安利柯！你不能再見父親，走進父親的房間，看到父親遺下的書籍，回想到在生前對不起父親的事，大概會自己后悔，對自己說：“那時我為什么這樣！
Then you will understand that he has always been your best friend, that when he was constrained to punish you, it caused him more suffering than it did you, and that he never made you weep except for the sake of doing you good; and then you will repent, and you will kiss with tears that desk at which he worked so much, at which he wore out his life for his children. You do not understand now; he hides from you all of himself except his kindness and his love. You do not know that he is sometimes so broken down with toil that he thinks he has only a few more days to live, and that at such moments he talks only of you; he has in his heart no other trouble than that of leaving you poor and without protection.
到了那時，你才會知道父親的愛你，知道父親叱責你時自己曾在心里哭泣，知道父親的加苦痛于你，完全是為了愛你。那時候，你會含了悔恨之淚，在你父術的書桌上——為了兒女不顧生命地在這上面勞作過的書桌上接吻吧?，F在，你不會知道，父親除了慈愛以外，把一切的東西對你這搞過了。你不知道吧，父親因為操勞過度，自恐不能久在人世呢。在這種時候，總是提起你，對你放心不下。
