A handsome head-waiter, his thick hair greased with pomatum and parted from the nape upward, dressed in a swallow-tail coat, with a wide lawn shirt-front and a bundle of charms dangling on his rotund stomach, with his hands in his pockets, his eyes screwed up contemptuously, was answering a bystander's questions in a severe tone.
Il capocameriere, un bell’uomo, con una scriminatura che incominciava dal collo nei capelli folti impomatati, in frac e grande sparato bianco di batista alla camicia, con una filza di ciondoli sulla pancetta arrotondata, rispondeva, le mani in tasca e gli occhi socchiusi e disdegnosi, qualcosa di arcigno a un signore che s’era fermato.