You may imagine how I felt when I heard this abominable old rogue addressing another in the very same words of flattery as he had used to myself.
你可以想见,当我听到这个可恶的老骗子用曾经奉承我的同一套话去奉承别人时,我是什么心情。
— Robert Louis Stevenson · Treasure Island · XI · What I Heard in the Apple-Barrel —