The old priest, with his sacerdotal headgear and his locks of grey hair, glistening like silver, combed back behind his ears, drew his small old hands out from beneath his vestments of heavy silver cloth with a large gold cross on the back, and began turning over some pages on the lectern.
Il sacerdote, un vecchietto con la cotta, le ciocche di capelli lucide d’argento divise in due parti dietro le orecchie, liberate le piccole mani di vecchio sotto la pesante pianeta d’argento dalla croce dorata sulla schiena, sfogliava qualcosa sul leggio.