And then suddenly the life would go out of them and they would sit round the table looking at one another with extinct eyes, like ghosts fading at cock-crow.

但是突然之间，他们又泄了气，于是就围在桌子旁边坐着，两眼茫然地望着对方，很像雄鸡一唱天下白时就销声匿迹的鬼魂一样。

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His face is wrapped with bandages, obscuring his eyes, yet the cock of his head and the turn of his mouth evoke burgeoning cynicism.

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