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And he exited walking backwards, like a roper, as a sign of respect, never turning his back to her.
Y salió caminando hacia atrás como el cordelero en señal de respeto, sin darle la espalda.
A private of the Twenty-ninth Regiment, passing early one Saturday morning along a public rope-walk, was hailed by some ropers there, and asked, ‘Would you like to do a job of work?’ He replied innocently enough that he would gladly undertake work to supplement his meagre pay.
Un soldado del regimiento Veintinueve, pasando un sábado por la mañana frente a una fábrica de cuerdas, fue saludado por los cordeleros, que le preguntaron: —¿Quieres trabajar? Contestó inocentemente que de buena gana lo haría, para complementar su pobre paga.
On Sunday the Congregational ministers – the same who used to rant in the pulpits about the Demon Bishops of Britain and how, among other perquisites of episcopacy, every tenth-born child was ravished from its mother’s side, along with the tithe-calf and the tithe-pig, for his monstrous appetite – these having got wind of the coming appointment, preached that a massacre of the honest ropers was secretly intended by the British, and that this diabolical plot must be forthwith frustrated.
El domingo, los ministros congregacionistas —los mismos que solían despotricar en el púlpito contra los obispos de Inglaterra, diciendo cómo, entre otras regalías del episcopado, cada décimo hijo era sustraído a su madre junto con la ternera-diezmo y el cochino-diezmo, para su monstruoso apetito—, estos ministros, digo, habiendo tenido noticia del desafío predicaron que los ingleses intentaban secretamente hacer una matanza de los honrados cordeleros, y que esta diabólica conspiración debía ser frustrada al instante.
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