靠窗有三个人聚在一桌子，都是中年，一种过惯了吃租放债生活的乡下财主的神气满面可掬，却交头接耳的悄悄地商量着什么。

• At a table under the windows sat three middle-aged men whose chubby faces, beaming with complacency, suggested that they had lived a comfortable and idle life in the country as rich landlords and usurers.