At the chemist's a skinny dispenser, with the same indifference with which the footman had cleaned his lamp-glasses, closed with a wafer a packet of powders for which a coachman was waiting, and refused to let Levin have any opium.
In farmacia uno sparuto aiutante farmacista, con la stessa indifferenza con cui il cameriere puliva i vetri, suggellava con un’ostia le polverine per un cocchiere che aspettava, e rifiutò l’oppio.