After this moment of happiness occasioned by the idea of widowerhood, his imagination reverted to the means of assuring himself of the truth.

在想到守寡的想法带来的这一刻幸福之后， 他的想象力又回到了确保自己相信真相的方法上。

His expressing the wish seemed, indeed, the sweetest testimony to the quality of his feeling, since, in the first weeks of the most perfunctory widowerhood, a man of his stamp is presumed to abstain from light adventures.

事实上，他表达的愿望似乎是对他感情品质的最甜蜜证明，因为在最敷衍的鳏夫期的头几周，像他这样的人被认为不会进行轻松的冒险。