Question

What made the narrator take interest in the boys.
Two gentleman of Verona

Answer 1

because his shabby appearence

Answer 2

bewcause Nicola and jacopo do many kinds of jobs such as selling wild strawberries, hawking newspaper etc. The narrator saw that the two boys do handwork and use the money for the fees of hospitals for their sister suffering from tuberculosis. they don't use the money for themselves. This made the narrator taking interest in the boys