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The corporal's post may have been flawed or even rotten because, although the volley merely cut cleanly the cords binding Lapin and the third man to theirs, so that their bodies slumped at the foot of each post, the corporal's body, post bonds and all, went over backward as one intact unit, onto the edge of the rubbish-filled trench behind it;
El poste del cabo quizá estuviera agrietado o incluso podrido, porque, si bien la descarga cerrada se limitó a cortar limpiamente las cuerdas que sujetaban a los suyos tanto a Lapin como al tercer condenado, de manera que los dos cuerpos se desplomaron al pie de sus dos postes, el cuerpo del cabo, junto con las cuerdas y todo el resto, cayeron hacia atrás, formando un solo bloque, en el borde de la zanja repleta de detritos;
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