He knew what a military man ought to be, and by the appearance and talk of those men, and by the swagger with which they applied themselves to their flasks on the way, he considered them bad soldiers.
Sabía apreciar lo que es un buen soldado, y por el aspecto y charla de aquellos señores y por la desenvoltura con que aplicaban los labios a la bota en el camino, deducía que eran malos militares.