I am one already, in the comparative degree, and in a year, if our brave Leon does a man's part, I shall assume the superlative.

Great-grandfather! That's a lovely position for a trooper twenty-five years old! At forty-five or fifty, I shall be great-great-grandfather.

At seventy ...

the French language has no more words to express what I shall become! But we can order one from those babblers of the Academy! Are you afraid that I'll want for anything in my old age?
I have my pay, in the first place, and my officer's cross.

When I reach the years of Anchises or Nestor, I will have my halt-pay.