Исправляя ногу, он беспрестанно всматривался в фигуру Иоанна на заднем плане, которой посетители не заметили, но которая, он знал, была верх совершенства.
As he corrected the leg he looked continually at the figure of John in the background, which his visitors had not even noticed, but which he knew was beyond perfection.