The evening before he had chatted with some mates, and he felt that breaths of spite and suspicion were passing over him, those first breaths of unpopularity which forerun defeat.
La veille, il avait causé avec des camarades, il sentait passer sur lui des souffles de rancune et de soupçon, ces premiers souffles de l'impopularité, qui annoncent la défaite.