that those he speaks worst of behind their backs are in the surest way of preferment; and whenever he begins to praise you to others, or to yourself, you are from that day forlorn.
inoren atzetik gaizki esaka aritzen bada, hura dagoela biderik onenean gora igotzeko; eta besteen edo zeure aurrean goraipamenak egiten hasten bazaizu, galduta zaudela egun horretatik aurrera.