This lad, so young and so practical, with his unscrupulous intelligence, professing a philosopher's theory of love, amused her with the vivacity of the pessimism which had sharpened his thin face and pointed nose.
Ce garçon si jeune et si pratique, d'une intelligence sans scrupule, professant sur l'amour des théories de philosophe, l'amusait, grâce a la vivacité de son pessimisme, dont s'aiguisait sa face mince, au nez pointu.