Four grave young men who were standing round scowled; these gentlemen did not like flippancy. The comte saw that he had gone too far. Luckily he perceived the honest M. Balland, a veritable hypocrite of honesty.
四周站着四个严肃年轻人皱着眉头;这些先生们不喜欢轻率。伯爵看出做得太过火了。幸运是,看到了诚实 M. Balland,一个名副其实诚实伪君子。
He succeeded in transferring his services to the more flourishing paper, and struck out a special line of work by the free exercise of a malicious flippancy which was then without rival in the periodical press.