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He remembered that they also said his father appeared at night in Morro Castle, in the pavilion where he had taught his class, a man who fulfilled his sense of duty even in death.
Recordó cómo también se decía que su padre se aparecía en El Morro de noche en el pabellón donde daba su clase, buen cumplidor de su sentido misional aun después de muerto.
They dined in a private room because they had agreed to bare their hearts to each other; and because they were both law-abiding men, who owed a duty to society and had wilfully avoided the fulfilment of that duty, they needed each other's immoral support.
Cenaron en un reservado, porque ambos habían convenido en franquearse mutuamente, y porque ambos eran hombres cumplidores de la ley, que tenían un deber con respecto a la sociedad; y como hasta entonces habían evitado voluntariamente el cumplimiento de este deber, necesitaban cada cual el apoyo moral del otro.
Herr Maisel, provider of paved streets and fulfiller of imperial defense budgets, broadcast his prosperity from his immaculately cut woolen suit, his fur-lined cape, and the golden circle that proclaimed him a Jew.
Herr Maisel, proveedor de calles pavimentadas y cumplidor de presupuestos de defensa imperial, transmitía su prosperidad por medio de su traje de lana de corte impecable, su capa con ribetes de piel y el círculo amarillo chillón que anunciaba que era judío.
And all because of an impulse blindly obeyed, a sudden boiling up of resentment against the futility of her life, those endless suppers, dinners, card-parties, those foolish pranks worthy only of an apprentice boy on holiday, that stupid flirtation with Rockingham, and Harry himself, so lazy, so easy-going, fulfilling too well the part of perfect husband with his tolerance, his yawn before midnight, his placid and sleepy adoration.
Y todo por seguir ciegamente un impulso, una explosión repentina de resentimiento contra la futilidad de la vida que llevaba, con esas interminables comidas, cenas y partidas de cartas, esas locuras estúpidas propias únicamente de un aprendiz en vacaciones, ese coqueteo ridículo con Rockingham, y el propio Harry, tan perezoso, tan acomodaticio, tan perfecto cumplidor del papel de marido ideal y tolerante, con su bostezo antes de medianoche y su adoración plácida y adormilada.
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