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“They’re too ready for us,” Prim said to you out of the corner of his dry mouth.
—Están demasiado preparados para nosotros —te dijo el Almidonado por la comisura de la boca—.
The voluble welcome had taken him off his guard, and it upset his calculations to find that the stern prison warden he had pictured was a smiling young man in pyjamas instead of the grim-faced martinet—or, at best, the prim pedagogue—he had expected to confront. It was an effort for him to recover his composure.
Mal preparado para este recibimiento tan voluble, y desorientado sobremanera por encontrar, bajo la apariencia de un joven en pijama, a este director de cárcel que él se había imaginado con los rasgos repelentes de un gendarme vestido de paisano, y que parecía todo lo más el director de un colegio, tuvo necesidad de hacer un esfuerzo para recobrar su aplomo.
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