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No toleraré la flojera, el desaseo ni la mediocridad.
I will not stand for laxity, slovenliness or second best.
Los dos hermanos Jowle estaban sentados frente a Melanie y a Victoria: eran una estampa moralista del contraste entre aseo y desaseo, pues Francie estaba cuidadosamente vestido con su traje y una corbata verde atravesada por un alfiler, una pequeña daga.
The two Jowle brothers sat opposite Melanie and Victoria, like a moral picture contrasting tidiness with slovenliness, for Francie was already painfully neat in his suit and a fresh, green tie, stabbed through, today, with a different tiepin, a small dagger.
Mientras me apresuraba escaleras arriba camino de la sala de estar, elaboré una imagen mental del desorden que debía de reinar allí, pues eran la irregularidad de costumbres de Holmes y los períodos de algo sospechosamente equivalente al desaseo lo que solía dar pie a las objeciones de nuestra casera.
Taking the stairs to the sitting-room quickly, I formed a mental picture of the disarray that must lie within – for it was Holmes’s irregularity of habits and periods of something suspiciously close to slovenliness that most often produced objection from our landlady.
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