While he was listening to this recital, delivered with the greatest simplicity, the duke looked from time to time at the young man with astonishment, as if he could not comprehend how so much prudence, courage, and devotedness could be allied with a countenance which indicated not more than twenty years.
Al escuchar este relato hecho con la mayor simplicidad, el duque miraba de vez en cuando al joven con aire asombrado, como si no hubiera podido comprender que tanta prudencia, coraje y abnegación hubieran venido a un rostro que no indicaba tod¿ via los veinte años.