When, however, he was reading novels, relating indecent anecdotes or seeing droll vaudevilles in the French theatre, and afterward merrily repeated them, everybody praised and encouraged him.

但是，当他读小说，讲下流的轶事，法国剧院看稽的歌舞，后欢快地重复时，每个人都称赞和鼓励他。