My maternal grandfather, it is true, was cut off in the flower of his youth at the age of sixty-seven, but my other three grandparents all lived to be over eighty.

我外祖父固然是在风华正茂之年就弃世了，当时他只有六十七岁，但是我的祖父，祖母和外祖母却都活到了八十以上。