there was hope in its aspect and life in its colour;这句话什么意思?

there was hope in its aspect and life in its colour;这句话什么意思?
While arranging my hair,I looked at my face in the glass,and felt it was no longer plain:there was hope in its aspect and life in its colour;and my eyes seemed as if they had beheld the fount of fruition,and borrowed beams from the lustrous ripple.