He sat in the middle of the room, holding with both hands to a bench, from which a soldier – a brother of the mistress of the house – was tugging him by his slime-covered boots, and he was laughing with his infectiously merry laugh.
Он сидел в средине избы и, держась обеими руками за лавку, с которой его стаскивал солдат, брат хозяйки, за облитые тиной сапоги, смеялся своим заразительно веселым смехом.