But he came of a long-lived race, he had not a single grey hair, no one thought he was forty, and he remembered that Varenka had said it was only in Russia that men of fifty considered themselves old, and that in France a man of fifty considered himself dans la force de l'âge, [In the prime of life.] while one of forty was un jeune homme. [A young man.]
¿Qué significaba la edad si él se sentía tan joven de espíritu como veinte años atrás? ¿Acaso no era juvenil el sentimiento que experimentaba ahora cuando, al salir desde el centro del bosque a su límite, veía bajo los oblicuos rayos del sol, inundada en su luz, la graciosa figura de Vareñka, con su vestidito amarillo?