L'un estava fumant, i l'altre necessitava foc; i per aixo s'aturaren al meu davant mateix, i els cigars els il·luminaren les cares, i vaig veure que el gran era l'espanyol sord i mut, per les seves patilles blanques i l'emplastre de l'ull, i l'altre era un diable matusser, d'aire esparracat…
One was a-smoking, and t'other one wanted a light; so they stopped right before me and the cigars lit up their faces and I see that the big one was the deaf and dumb Spaniard, by his white whiskers and the patch on his eye, and t'other one was a rusty, ragged-looking devil."