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Die deutschen Gäste hier waren nicht weniger gut gekleidet, aber aus unbekannten Gründen gab es am Schwarzmarkt keine Krawatten zu kaufen.
The other people here were just as well dressed but for some reason the black market could not supply ties, the people here wore dull, ragged pieces of cloth for neckwear.
Willis, der mit dem Ende seiner Krawatte gespielt hatte – er empfand diese Form der Halsbekleidung als störend und bevorzugte nach Art der Arbeiter ein Tuch – ließ die Knopfaugen auf seinem Schützling ruhen und schwieg.
Willis, who had been fiddling with the end of his tie – neckwear that was irksome to him, favouring as he mostly did a workmanlike neckerchief – turned his beady little eyes on his protégé and took a time to answer.
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