他们住进了一家简陋的旅馆。 旅馆的餐厅是小城名流云聚之地。有市长，律师，医生，还有其他的一些人。在这些人之中，有一位英俊健谈的高个老人引起了他们的注意。他有一双乌黑的眼睛，头发雪白，高大挺直的身板，像年轻人一样。然而，餐厅的服务生却有些自豪地告诉他们，这位伯爵年事已高，来年就有八十高龄了。服务生还说，他是他们家族最后一员，也曾是豪门巨富，然而他却没有子嗣。这位服务生还得意地提到，他爱情失意，终身未娶，好像这是一件本地值得炫耀的事情。

　　参考译文

　　The Cafe of the simple inn where they stayed was the meeting place of the notabilities of the little city; the Sindaco, the avvocato, the doctor, and a few others; and among them they noticed a beautiful, slim, talkative old man, with bright black eyes and snow-white hair — tall and straight and still with the figure of a youth, although the waiter told them with pride that the Conte was molto vecchio — would in fact be eightey in the following year. He was the last of his family, the waiter added — they had once been great and rich people — but he had no descendants; in fact the waiter mentioned with complacency, as if it were a story on which the locality prided itself, that the Conte had been unfortunate in love, and had never married.

　　Sindaco：意语，市长

　　avvocato：意语，律师

　　Conte：意语，伯爵

　　molto vecchio：意语，very old