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En una especie de altarcillo, en un extremo de la sala de estar, las revistas descansaban en unas fundas de cuero grueso ¡y qué revistas!
In a sort of altar-like affair at one end of the drawing-room area were magazines in thick leather folders—and what magazines!
A partir de entonces, Irina tomó la costumbre, estuviera donde estuviese, aunque fuera por una sola noche, de montar un altarcillo donde ponía a la santa y la única fotografía que tenía de sus abuelos.
After her escape from Texas, Irina had wandered around for years, and the only fixed point in her tumbling life was the altar she set up wherever she landed, even if only for one night, with the saint’s image and the single, carefully hand-tinted photograph she had of her grandparents.
Después se dijo que no durmió, ni ella tampoco, que pasaban las noches hablando de cosas del espíritu al pie del altarcillo multicolor, y se llegó a decir que él dormía en el jergón y que ella velaba su sueño.
Afterward people said that he didn’t sleep, and that she didn’t either, that they spent the night talking of things of the spirit at the foot of the little multicolored altar, while others claimed that he slept on the straw pallet as she watched over his sleep.
La entrada estaba enmarcada por gruesos cortinajes que Alleyn corrió después de trasponerla el grupo, con lo cual quedaron completamente aislados de la nave principal. Fox encendió una linterna y la enfocó hacia el rincón que quedaba junto al altarcillo.
The entrance was framed with heavy curtains which Fox drew after them. They were thus completely hidden from the main body of the hall. Fox switched on his torch and pointed it at the far corner by the altar.
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