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Dann hätte ich tatsächlich Gelegenheit, in diese seine Geistesarbeit Einblick zu nehmen, dachte ich.
In that case I would actually have the opportunity to look into this intellectual work of his, I thought.
Der hat gut zu essen und stiehlt nicht, der gibt mir keinen Fußtritt. Und er hat vor niemand Angst, weil er immer satt ist. Der Herr ist ein Geistesarbeiter, er hat ein gepfl egtes Spitzbärtchen und einen weichen, fl otten Schnurrbart wie ein franzö- 10 sischer Kavalier, aber er riecht scheußlich nach Krankenhaus. Und nach Zigarre.
That was a man who ate well and did not have to steal, a man who would not kick you but would not be afraid either, and would not be afraid because he always had enough to eat. He was a gentleman who earned his living by intellectual work; he had a pointed French beard and a grey, downy, dashing moustache such as the French knights of old used to have, but the smell wafting from him on the blizzard was a bad smell: hospitals. And cigars.
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