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Pero a medida que fue aumentando su irritación ante la impenetrable defensa, que nada podía atraer, ni siquiera momentáneamente, a una ofensiva, descendió a triquiñuelas de matasiete, acompañando sus fintas con exclamaciones y golpes de pie destinados a engañar a su oponente, haciéndole tornar un falso ataque por verdadero.
But with the growth of his irritation before that impenetrable defence, which nothing could lure even momentarily into an offensive, he descended to tricks of swashbuckling, accompanying feintes by exclamations and foot-stampings intended to deceive the opponent into mistaking a false attack for a real one.
En silen-cio le agradecí todo lo que hizo por mí, le dije las palabras de cariño que jamás me hubiera atrevido a articular si pudiera oírme, besé sus hermosas manos, sus párpados de tortuga, su frente noble y le pedí perdón por las pataletas de mi infancia, por haber llegado tan tarde a despedirme de ella, por la lagartija seca que escupí en un falso ataque de tos y otras bromas pesadas que debió soportar, mientras Nívea aprovechaba el buen pretexto que le brindaba Paulina del Valle para llo-rar sin ruido por sus niños muertos.
In silence I thanked her for everything she had done for me; I spoke the words of affection I would never have dared voice if she could hear me. I kissed her beautiful hands, her reptilian eyelids, her noble forehead, and I asked her forgiveness for the tantrums I threw as a child, for having come too late to say good-bye, for the dried lizard I'd spit out in a false attack of coughing, and other heavy-handed jokes she'd had to put up with, while Nívea seized the excuse offered by Paulina del Valle's departure to weep noiselessly for her dead children.
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