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“That was well-seasoned wood, I think, and it has been rubbed with bees’ wax by some careful hand.
Era madera estacionada, creo, y alguna mano cuidadosa la había lustrado con cera de abejas.
Suddenly a superstitious thought crossed my mind: I had inadvertently lighted the Holy Thursday candle in a flat calm and had therefore been instrumental in loosing the very danger that these two inches of bees-wax had been intended to allay!
De pronto, un pensamiento supersticioso cruzó mi mente: había encendido inadvertidamente la vela del Jueves Santo en medio de una gran calma, y por tanto había sido instrumento desencadenante del mismo peligro que estas dos pulgadas de cera de abejas debían calmar.
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