To hide that embarrassment he took out a cigarette-case with a new kind of fastening which he had only just bought, smelt the leather of which it was made, and took out a cigarette.
Per nascondere il turbamento, cacciò fuori un portasigarette, da poco acquistato, munito di un nuovo sistema di apertura e, annusandone la pelle, ne trasse fuori una sigaretta.