-Terrific ! I wanted to go earlier, this evening, and he is still working in the lab !
-But he said that you could go, that he didn't need you !
-Tell me another ! Yes, he did, but I know better. I am sure that he would remind me of that, just to embarrass me. He doesn't mind other people feelings. Of course, he is so ...brainy... Well, brainy...
-He is ! He is a brilliant scientist. I heard that he has a PH.D. in ... I don't remember what, but a very complicated thing.
-Pfff... Quan-tum Me-cha-nic, yes, you are mouthful, with that ! And I really would like to know why a so "brilliant" scientist is actually an obscure agent in the UNCLE... A Ph.D. ? After all, nobody confirmed it. A paper is... just a paper. Even if he had, it's not much use, Quantum Mechanic !
-He is fluent in so many languages... And that 's useful !
-Pfff...When he speaks French in France, he can't speak Chinese in China ! One man can be fluent in one hundred languages, he can't speak all of them at the same time ! Anyway, I am sure that it's some Russian device.
-He has an extraordinary memory ...
-He deserves no credit !
-You can't deny that he is a very efficient agent ! I have been told that he broke many records at the Survival School, and...
-Ah, yes, of course, he did ! First, he worked for the KGB... Then, you have seen the man ? Quite frankly, can you really imagine this smallish boy beating all our big guys ? That was cheating, for sure. To please the Russians, I guess. As an agent, he works with the CEA... that helps to limit the damages, doesn't it ?
-Smallish, smallish... No, he isn't that small. And he's so thin, so lithe ! He has a so limber body. I peeped at him, at the Gym, and...
-Thin ? Skinny, you should say ! And lithe, limber ... he deserves no credit ! Just physical aptitudes ! Oh, please, stop it, now, or you'll tell me about his « so beautiful blond hairs », and about his « so beautiful blue eyes » ! I can't see any charm in this straw mop neither in those baby-blue eyes. He looks like a kid, or a girl ! He barely get dressed by himself, and he is as civil as a Thrush kettle !
-What do you mean ?
-He whispers, he mutters, he hisses... when he opens the mouth ! Most of the time, he doesn't say a word. He doesn't seem to have any feeling, and you can't deny that he is a loner !
-You aren't fair ! He is far from his country, and he has no family, here.
-No family, and, no friends ! Just what I said.
-Except for...
-Ah ! Yes... except for ... him. About that.... Oh, sorry, sir... I didn't know that you were...
Very dark and very cold eyes gave him a piercing look. Less dark and less cold than the voice.
-I can guess it... You are a lucky man : it could have been my partner. And I'll make you know a quote that you should remember : « The wicked envy and hate ; it is their way to admire. » You surely have something to do ?
-Yes, sir.
-Is he gone ?
-Yes, he is. So, you can't deny it, he is his friend...
-Friend ? I am very doubtful about that.
-Don't do it again !
-Everybody knows that : Waverly gives orders, he obeys. So when the Old Man asked him to babysit the Russian, he did. But I am sure that it didn't please him. However, he had to obey. He knows where he he is going...
-Please...
-He is hungry, very hungry. He looks for the Old Man's job. So he would do anything to please his boss.
-He is the youngest of all the CEA...
-Just what I said. He manages his affairs well.
-But he had brought a lot of missions to a satisfactory conclusion.
-All he has to do is to rely on his partner's skill. Easy. He doesn't deserve much credit.
-You are just contradicting yourself, aren't you ?
-And what about his behaviour ? A pure scandal ! A womanizer ! He wastes time in chasing the girls. Look at him : he is always going for the prowl ! If we did that, the Old Man would blame us. But not him, not his pet.... What a nice duo : the pet and the blue-eyed boy....Ouch...
-Mmmm....
-Oh, welcome among the living.
-Where... ?
-At the Medical. Mr Kuryakyn brought you there. He let that for you. Do you want me to read it ?
« The few who do are the envy of the many who only watch. »
-Was it fair play, my friend ?
-Not really, but the sure mark of one born with noble qualities is being born without envy. This .... vented his spleen on Mr Waverly and... on you.
-He envied the distinction I have won... but in my whole life, tovarisch, there is only one thing that deserves envy.
-...?
-You, my friend. Don't blush. I mean it.
-The same for me, Napoleon.
"Of the seven deadly sins, only envy is no fun at all." Joseph Epstein
« The few who do are the envy of the many who only watch. » Jim Rohn
« The sure mark of one born with noble qualities is being born without envy. » La Rochefoucault
« The wicked envy and hate ; it is their way to admire. » Victor Hugo