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Jane, who had endured the concert in a daze of hypercritical tension, looked her old enemy in the eye and said, purringly, with the two-edged courtesy of Boston gentry, “I took it as a cccivic experience—a lesson in democracy, the ssenior players bringing the babies along.”
Jane, que había soportado el concierto aturdida por una tensión hipercrítica, miró a su antigua enemiga a los ojos y, ronroneante, con la cortesía de doble filo de la alta burguesía bostoniana, le dijo: —Me lo he tomado como una experiencia cívica, como una lección de democracia: los intérpretes maduros tocando al lado de los benjamines.
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