‘But, if you have no enemies, you may have inspired envy: you are about to be made captain at the age of nineteen, which is a distinction for someone of your class; you are about to marry a pretty girl who loves you, which is a rare fortune for someone of any class at all. Fortune having favoured you in these ways, you may have aroused jealousy.’ ‘Yes, you are right. You must know human nature better than I do, and what you say is possible. But I confess that if these envious men were to be among my friends, I should rather not know who they are, so as not to be obliged to hate them.’
“But instead of enemies, you may have excited jealousy. You are about to become captain at nineteen, and elevated post; you are about to marry a pretty girl, who loves you, and those two pieces of good fortune may have excited the envy of some one."
“You are right; you know, men better than I do, and what you say may possibly be the case, I confess; I prefer not knowing them, because then I should be forced to hate them."
he’s actually so real for that but friend…they’re right behind you.
