One day, when he was seven years old, he came to the curate of palestrina, and asked to be taught to read; it was somewhat difficult, for he could not quit his flock; but the good curate went every day to say mass at a little hamlet too poor to pay a priest and which, having no other name, was called borgo; he told luigi that he might meet him on his return, and that then he would give him a lesson, warning him that it would be short, and that he must profit as much as possible by it 这件事多少有点困难，因为他不能离开他的羊群，那位好心的教士每天要到一个小村子里去做一次弥撒。那个小村子太穷了，养不起一个教士，也没有什么正式的村名，叫博尔戈。他告诉万帕说，他每天从博尔戈回来的时候可以见他一次，利用那个时间教他一课，并且预先告诉他，只能教短短的一课，他一定要特别用功，来利用这短短的见面的时间。
The curate might set as many chapters as he pleased for catherine to get by heart, and joseph might thrash heathcliff till his arm ached; they forgot everything the minute they were together again : at least the minute they had contrived some naughty plan of revenge; and many a time i ve cried to myself to watch them growing more reckless daily, and i not daring to speak a syllable, for fear of losing the small power i still retained over the unfriended creatures 尽管副牧师随心所欲地留下多少章节叫凯瑟琳背诵，尽管约瑟夫把希刺克厉夫抽得胳臂痛，可是只要他们又聚在一起，或至少在他们筹划出什么报复的顽皮计划的那一分钟，他们就把什么都忘了。有多少次我眼看他们一天比一天胡来，只好自己哭，我又不敢说一个字，唯恐失掉我对于这两个举目无亲的小家伙还能保留的一点点权力。
