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Of course, the shrimpers and their wives were far too common for my mother’s speciously cultivated and unattenuated tastes.
Los pescadores y sus esposas, por supuesto, eran demasiado vulgares para los especiosamente cultivados gustos de mi madre.
Quentin passed from dismay to amazement at a guile that could so dissemble an outrageous transaction, and name a price that in itself was speciously reasonable if one ignored, as Besné claimed to be entitled to ignore, the shrinkage in the value of the Republican currency. "Even so," he said at last.
Quentin pasó del desmayo al asombro ante aquella superchería que ocultaba una ultrajante transacción al fijar un precio que en sí mismo era especiosamente razonable, si se prescindía, como Besné proclamaba tener derecho a prescindir, de la pérdida sufrida por el papel moneda de la República. —Aun así —dijo al fin—.
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