His bulky neck was protected, as usual, by a silk kerchief, which he arranged from moment to moment with a white and fat hand grown over with red hair, forming as it were bloody stains; he would not permit epilatores to pluck out this hair, since he had been told that to do so would bring trembling of the fingers and injure his lute-playing.
Csuklóin helyenként pama­tokban vöröses szőr nőtt, mint megannyi vérfolt. Nem engedte meg az epilátoroknak, hogy e szőröket kihúzgálják, mert azt hallotta, hogy attól ujjai reszketőssé válhatnának, ami hátrál­tatná a lantpengetésben.