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Había regresado de cazar después de que la columna principal hubiese pasado.
He had returned from hunting after the main column had passed.
En general, él lo llevaba bien, pues los modales de Sylvester eran intachables. Sin embargo, cuando tras declarar que veía que no había salido a cazar, la señorita Penistone recordó que no se salía a cazar después de una severa helada y, riendo de su propia ocurrencia, añadió: «Bueno, eso que he dicho es una tontería, ¿verdad?», él no pudo evitar contestar, aunque con impecable cortesía: «Sí, ¿verdad?».
He bore it very well, for his manners were extremely good, but when, after stating that she saw he had not gone out hunting, she recollected that one didn’t hunt after severe frost and said, with a merry laugh at her mistake: ‘Well, that was a stupid thing for me to have said, wasn’t it?’ he was provoked into replying, though with perfect suavity: ‘It was, wasn’t it?’
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