He certainly did not prevent others from speaking of them before him, although it was easy to perceive that this kind of conversation, in which he only mingled by bitter words and misanthropic remarks, was very disagreeable to him.
Sólo que no impedía que se hablase de ellas delante de él, aunque fuera fácil ver que tal género de conversación, al que no se mezclaba más que con palabras amargas y observaciones misantrópicas, le era completamente desagradable.