That is the kind of thing that reconciles me to life: a ragged, tippling, incompetent old rogue, with the manners of a gentleman, and the vanity of an artist, to keep up his self-respect!

这样的事使我愿意与生活和解：一个衣衫褴褛、嗜酒而无甚本领的老无赖，却凭着绅士的风度和艺术家的虚荣，守住了自己的自尊！