Presently I shall be introduced as ‘this venerable old gentleman’ and the axe will fall when they raise me to the degree of ‘grand old man’. That means on our continent any one with snow-white hair who has kept out of jail till eighty.

不久，我将被介绍为“这位德高望重的老先生”，当他们把我提升到“德高望重的老先生”的地位时，斧头就会掉下来。这意味着在我们的大陆上，任何一个有着雪白头发的人都能在监狱里呆到八十岁。