Did I need any more
bothers than I have had since my return? Here I have my boy, whom
I left here, ill since the day I returned until now. He is now
better it is true, but he has been between life and death, given
up by the doctors, so that for about a month I have not been in
bed, let alone many others. Now I have this nuisance of a boy, who
says, and says again, that he does not want to lose time, that he
must learn. And he told me that he would be satisfied with two or
three hours a day. Now all day is not enough, so that he will be
drawing all night also. These are counsels of the father. If I say
anything he would declare that I did not wish him to learn. I want
some one to mind the house, and if he did not feel like doing it
they should not have put me to this expense. But they are no good,
no good at all, and are working for their own ends; but enough. I
beg you to have him taken away from before me, for he annoys me so
much that I cannot stand him any longer. The muleteer has had so
much money that he can very well take him back again; he is a
friend of his father's. Tell the father to send for him. I'll not
give him another farthing, for I have no money, I will have
patience until he sends for him, and if he is not sent for I will
turn him out, for I have done so already, on the second day after
his arrival and other times as well, and he won't believe it.
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