Alle stemmten sie die Arme auf die Schenkel, nachdem sie die Falten des Beinkleides sorgsam zurechtgestrichen hatten. Das nicht dekatierte Hosentuch glänzte mehr als das Leder ihrer derben Stiefel.
All the waist-coats were of velvet, double-breasted; all the watches had, at the end of a long ribbon, an oval cornelian seal; everyone rested his two hands on his thighs, carefully stretching the stride of their trousers, whose unsponged glossy cloth shone more brilliantly than the leather of their heavy boots.