It therefore happened that this venial fault of my uncle's came to be pretty well understood in time, and an unfair advantage was taken of it; the students laid wait for him in dangerous places, and when he began to stumble, loud was the laughter, which is not in good taste, not even in Germans.
En la ciudad era conocido de todos este bien disculpable defecto de mi tío, que muchos desahogados aprovechaban para burlarse de él, cosa que le exasperaba en extremo; y su furor era causa de que arreciasen las risas, lo cual es de muy mal gusto hasta en la misma Alemania.