His expressing the wish seemed, indeed, the sweetest testimony to the quality of his feeling, since, in the first weeks of the most perfunctory widowerhood, a man of his stamp is presumed to abstain from light adventures.
事实上,他表达的愿望似乎是对他感情品质的最甜蜜证明,因为最敷衍的鳏夫期的几周,像他这样的人被认为不会进行轻松的冒险。