Everyone had just had his hair cut; ears stood out from the heads; they had been close-shaved; a few, even, who had had to get up before daybreak, and not been able to see to shave, had diagonal gashes under their noses or cuts the size of a three-franc piece along the jaws, which the fresh air en route had enflamed, so that the great white beaming faces were mottled here and there with red dabs.
Mindenki meg volt nyiratkozva, a fülek elálltak a fejektől, s itt is, ott is, mindenütt csak frissen beretvált arczokat lehetett látni. Voltak, akik virradatkor, sebtében borotválkoztak meg, amikor még nem láttak jól; ezeknek az orruk alját apró, rézsutos sebhelyek tarkázták.