Capitolo 22
"Is it from Your father?" Asked Gilbert.
"No; it is in the writing of my stepmother. I can guess from that
what it doesn't contain good news."
He opened the letter, and as him he/she read him/it his/her face it expressed disgust and
bother.
"Read him/it, Gilbert" he said, while giving him the open sheet.
This was the letter:
"CARL CRAWFORD:--come Your father has a nervous attack, brought above from
Your misbehavior, he has authorized that I write to you. As you are but
sixteen, he could send for you and you/he/she could have forcedly brought again her/it,
but it holds better it for you to follow Your his/her own course and to suffer the
punishment of Your obstinate and perverse behavior. The boy that you sent
here it tried an appropriate messenger. He seems, if possible, to be also worse
what You. He was very impertinent to me, and it did a brutal and
I attach not provoked on my poor boy, Pietro which the devotion to Your father
and I form a contrast of accord to Your carelessness studied of ours
wishes.
"Your friend had the insurance to ask a weekly check for you
while an exile volunteer from the house where only too well You has been
essay. In the other words, you want to be paid for Your disobedience.
Even if Your father is weak enough to think to consenting with this
extraordinary application, I should do better mine dissuade him/it."
"Small doubt of that!" Said Carl, bitterly.
"In my pain for Your waywardness, I am comforted by the thought that
Pietro is never too much good person and conscientious to follow Your example. While
You go away, he will do his maximum do above to Your father for his
disappointment in You. What you can grow wise in duration and turn
for a long time from the error of Your ways, it is the serious hope of Your
stepmother,
"Anastasia Crawford."
"It does me ill to read such letter as that, Gilbert", said Carl.
"And to have that sneak and thief--as he resulted to be--Pietro, puts on
as a model for me, is too much a small."
"I didn't know there were never such women in the world!" Returned Gilbert.
"I can perfectly understand Your feelings, after my interview of