After this, he pressed me earnestly, and in the most affectionate manner, not to play the young man, not to precipitate myself into miseries which Nature and the station of life I was born in, seemed to have provided against.

• 接着他十分诚恳而慈蔼地劝我不要闹小孩子脾气，不要自寻苦恼，因为无论从事理来说，从我的家庭出身来说，这些苦恼都是可以避免的。