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The pinto pony was neither piebald nor skewbald as most Indian mounts.
El poni no era pío ni moteado como la mayoría de las monturas de los indios.
In some kind of way the Doctor, though he could not understand, was able to gain an inkling as to what was happening in Steerpike's mind, as the skewbald homicide began to strut like a cockerel about the bodies of the women he had imprisoned, humiliated and starved to death.
Si bien no comprendía lo que estaba sucediendo, cuando el homicida de rostro de caballo pío comenzó a pavonearse como un gallo alrededor de los cadáveres de las mujeres a las que había recluido, humillado y matado de hambre, el doctor se hizo una idea de lo que en ese momento pasaba por el cerebro de Pirañavelo.
He did not know what Steerpike had done or said but he knew he had hurt her, and if it were not that he felt upon the brink of gaining some kind of damning evidence, then he would have returned to that room from which Fuchsia had emerged, and on the reappearance of Steerpike, at the doorway, he would have plucked the skewbald face, barehanded, from the head. II
Ignoraba lo que Pirañavelo había dicho o hecho, pero Excorio supo que la había herido y, de no ser porque se sabía a punto de obtener algún tipo de prueba acusatoria, hubiese vuelto a la habitación de la que Fucsia había salido y, al reaparecer Pirañavelo en la puerta, le hubiera arrancado el rostro de caballo pío con las manos desnudas.
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