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Did he cling to the hope that the slaves would rally to him, as Cook had assured him they would?
¿Se aferró a la esperanza de que los esclavos se unieran a él, como había asegurado Cook que harían?
EVER SINCE ARNAU had told him that the Virgin was his mother too, Joan ran to the church whenever he had a free moment. He would cling to the grille of the Jesus chapel, push his head in between them, and stare at the stone figure with the child on her shoulder and boat at her feet.
Desde que Arnau le había asegurado que la Virgen también era su madre, Joan corría hasta la iglesia en cuanto tenía algún momento libre y, agarrado con las manos a las rejas de la capilla del Santísimo, metía el rostro entre ellas y se quedaba contemplando la figura de piedra con el niño sobre su hombro y el barco a sus pies.
And instinctively, or, if you like, irrationally (but who doesn’t sometimes resort to irrationality), after each failure, I would cling to that last doubt: no body had been found nor had I been given a definitive account of his death, and Tupra’s initial predictions had proved wrong: ‘You won’t be left to speculate about it for the rest of your life, I promise.’ The rest of my life might go on for a long time yet, but the years were passing, and I was still speculating.
Así que después de cada fracaso, de manera instintiva, si se quiere irracional (pero quién no recurre a veces a la irracionalidad), acariciaba la duda última: no había habido cadáver ni tampoco definitivo relato, las predicciones iniciales de Tupra habían sido equivocadas: ‘No especulará el resto de su vida’, me había asegurado. El resto de mi vida tal vez fuera larguísimo, pero transcurrían los años y yo seguía especulando. No continuamente, pero de tarde en tarde, sobre todo tras las decepciones.
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