On the one hand they regarded him as a man of wit and sense, and on the other he seemed to them a maundering blockhead, and they could not make up their minds whereabouts between wisdom and folly they ought to place him.
Aquí le tenían por discreto, y allí se les deslizaba por mentecato, sin saber determinarse qué grado le darían entre la discreción y la locura.