Nevertheless, Charles was a true child of Paris, taught by the customs of society and by Annette herself to calculate everything; already an old man under the mask of youth.

然而，查尔斯是真正的巴黎之子，受到社会习俗和安妮特本人的教导，懂得计算一切。已经是一个披着青春面具的老人了。

You had not your little wits sharpened by their intriguing against you, suppressed and defenceless, under the mask of sympathy and pity and what not that is soft and soothing.

你没有你的小智慧被它们对你的好奇所磨砺，被压抑和毫无防备，在同情和怜悯的面具下，还有什么不是柔软和舒缓的。