If I complained, he would say that I did not want him to learn.

I really require some one to take care of the house; and if the boy had no mind for this sort of work, they ought not to have put me to expense.

But they are good-for-nothing, and are working toward a certain end of their own.

Enough, I beg you to relieve me of the boy; he has bored me so that I cannot bear it any longer.

The muleteer has been so well paid that he can very well take him back to Florence.
Besides, he is a friend of the father.