Le bonheur le porta à une hauteur de pensées assez étrangère à son caractère ; il considérait les événements de la vie, lui, si jeune, comme si déjà il fût arrivé à sa dernière limite.
Happiness carried him to an exaltation of mind quite foreign to his nature; he considered the incidents of life, he, still so young, as if already he had arrived at its farthest goal. "I must admit that, since I came to Parma," he said to himself at length after several hours of delicious musings, "I have known no tranquil and perfect joy such as I used to find at Naples in galloping over the roads of Vomero or pacing the shores of Miseno.