A handsome head-waiter, his thick hair greased with pomatum and parted from the nape upward, dressed in a swallow-tail coat, with a wide lawn shirt-front and a bundle of charms dangling on his rotund stomach, with his hands in his pockets, his eyes screwed up contemptuously, was answering a bystander's questions in a severe tone.
El maestresala, arrogante mozo de pelo brillante partido por una raya que comenzaba en el mismo cogote, con frac y camisa blanca de batista, colgantes sobre su vientre varias baratijas, metidas las manos en los bolsillos y arrugando las cejas desdeñosamente, hablaba con altanería a un señor que estaba ante él.