The next moment he was as ready for sport as any unbreeched infant: far readier than the Collector's junior clerk, who at nineteen years was much the elder and graver man of the two.

下一刻，他就像任何未出生的婴儿一样做好了玩耍的准备：比收藏家的初级职员准备得多，后者 19 岁，是两人中年长和严肃的人。