George had taken it firmly, and held it away from him, and had begun to unravel it as if he were taking the swaddling clothes off a new-born infant; and, before he had unwound a dozen yards, the thing was more like a badly-made door-mat than anything else.
Giorgio l’aveva preso saldamente, tenendolo lontano da sè, e aveva cominciato delicatamente a svolgerlo come se stesse togliendo la fasciatura a un neonato e, prima d’averne svolto una dozzina di metri, il cavo aveva assunta, più che d’altro, la forma d’uno stuoino mal fatto.