He sat in the middle of the room, holding with both hands to a bench, from which a soldier – a brother of the mistress of the house – was tugging him by his slime-covered boots, and he was laughing with his infectiously merry laugh.
Sentado en el centro de la habitación y asiéndose con ambas manos al banco en que se sentaba, reía con su risa contagiosa, mientras el hermano de la dueña, un soldado, tiraba de sus botas llenas de cieno tratando de quitárselas.