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Wer in einem kleinen Haus lebte und nur mehr von Kaufleuten besucht wurde, die geliehenes Geld zurückwollten, hatte nicht oft dazu Gelegenheit.
When you lived in a small house and were visited by no one but merchants trying to settle their bills, you didn’t often have the opportunity.
Auch die Pfarrer. Es gab nicht viele, und die wenigen, die es gab, waren wie verloren in der Unermeßlichkeit des Sertão, jedenfalls nicht genug, um die zahlreichen Kirchen zu erhalten, die nur am Tag des Dorfheiligen von Pfarrern besucht wurden.
The village priests, too. There weren’t many of them, and what few there were seemed lost in the vastness of the backlands, and in any event there were not enough of them to keep the countless churches going, so that they were visited by pastors only on the feast day of the patron saint of the town.
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