Men with the odor of roast beans, which they carried in their bosoms, and who besides were eternally hoarse and sweating from playing mora on the street-corners and peristyles, did not in his eyes deserve the term "human." Hence he gave no answer whatever to the applause, or the kisses sent from lips here and there to him.
Az olyan ember, aki állandóan a zsebében hordott főtt babtól bűzlik, s emellett folyton rekedt és izzadt az utcasarkokon és a peristyliumokon54 folyó mora-játéktól, szinte nem érdemli meg az ember nevet.