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Cash hatte Billy zuletzt gesehen, als seine Mutter gestorben war, die von einem schweren Herzinfarkt im Schlaf dahingerafft wurde. Herrje, das war schon über zehn Jahre her.
Cash had last seen Billy when his mother had died, carried away by a massive heart attack in her sleep, Christ, more than ten years ago.
Dieser vornehme Cavalheiro hatte vordem in Portugals asiatischer Metropole Goa gedient und dort eine Ehefrau verloren und eine andere gewonnen: Nachdem die erste von der Malaria dahingerafft worden war, hatte er ein sechzehnjähriges Mädchen geheiratet.
This fine cavalheiro had previously served a term in Goa, Portugal’s Asiatic metropolis, and while living there had lost one wife and acquired another: his first spouse having been carried away by malaria, he had married a girl of sixteen, some fifty years his junior.
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