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Naturalmente, él tiene algo de la viveza de ingenio de su madre cuando escribía; pero creo que la trama adolece de falta de alegría y optimismo, características de una buena novela de aquella época.
Of course, he has something of his mother’s former brilliance, but it did seem to me that the subject-matter lacked the joy and hope which was the mark of a good novel in those days.”
Aquella debilitación de su carácter duro y resistente, aquel ablandamiento de su corazón y en especial la inquietud y la falta de alegría y armonía de sus antiguas expediciones por los senderos del bosque, le maravillaban y le turbaban a la vez.
This weakening of the sterner stuff in him; this softening of his heart, and especially the inquietude, and lack of joy and harmony in his old pursuits of the forest trails bewildered him, and troubled him some.
Pero comieron gravemente, como si los hijos sintieran la falta de alegría de la madre y la suya propia, y finalmente el hijo mayor habló con solemnidad: –Algunas veces creo que mi padre debe haber muerto, porque nunca viene.
But they ate gravely and it seemed the children felt their own lack and the mother’s lack of joy, and at last the eldest said, solemnly, “Sometimes I think my father must be dead because he never comes.”
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