Beside the finished building another as yet surrounded by scaffolding was being built. Workmen wearing aprons stood on the scaffolding laying bricks, pouring water from wooden pails, or smoothing the mortar.
Accanto alla costruzione finita, ne spuntava un’altra circondata di impalcature, e sopra i ponti gli operai in grembiule ponevano i mattoni, versavano dai secchi la calcina e la spianavano con le cazzuole.