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The gunny sacks they used as raincoats were soaking wet; so were all their clothes.
Los sacos de yute que llevaban como impermeable estaban tan empapados como su ropa.
When they finally ran out we filled our gunny sacks with the last dusty remnants of that strange fortune and migrated to Pachigam, obliged by necessity to become actor-counterfeits of the magnificoes we once were.
Cuando finalmente se agotaron, llenamos nuestros sacos de yute con los últimos restos polvorientos de aquella extraña fortuna y emigramos a Pachigam, obligados por la necesidad a convertirnos en actores que interpretaban a los nobles que en otro tiempo fuimos.
Firdaus’s family had moved to Pachigam in her grandfather’s time, carrying, on their sturdy little mountain ponies, the gunny sacks filled with gold dust with which her grandparents had purchased the fruit orchards and grazing meadows which she, as an only child, afterwards brought with her as her dowry when she married the charismatic sarpanch.
La familia de Firdaus se trasladó a Pachigam en la época de su abuelo, llevando, en sus pequeños y robustos ponis de montaña, los sacos de yute llenos de polvo de oro con los que sus abuelos compraron los huertos frutales y prados de pastoreo que ella, como única hija, llevó como dote cuando se casó con el carismático sarpanch.
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