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His forehead bore deepening lines born of uncertainty and, in general, he had never seduced his clerkly soul with the thought that he was either born great or would under any circumstances achieve greatness.
Su frente, surcada por profundas arrugas, refleja incertidumbre, nunca había regalado a su alma de empleado la idea de que era importante o que en ciertas circunstancias conseguiría cierta importancia.
a thin clerkly man with a pinched face and a shiny suit, and his wife, fat as her husband was thin, and holding to her breast a con fused bundle of pink and white draperies from one end of which pouted the creased and overheated features of a young baby.
un hombre delgado con aire de empleado, el rostro picado y un traje lustroso, y su esposa, tan gruesa como delgado era su marido, sosteniendo contra el pecho un montón confuso de trapos rosados y blancos, de uno de cuyos extremos emergían los rasgos arrugados y excesivamente calientes de un niño pequeño.
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