Els servents de la vídua el tenien net i polit, pentinat i raspallat; i de nit el colgaven entre llençols antipatics, sense una petita macula o llantia que hi pogués estrenyer contra el cor i reconeixer per amiga.
The widow's servants kept him clean and neat, combed and brushed, and they bedded him nightly in unsympathetic sheets that had not one little spot or stain which he could press to his heart and know for a friend.