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Sería un signo de honor y aumentaría las posibilidades de ascenso de Tomas, incluso ganándole un cargo de oficial después de quince o veinte años en la guardia.
It would be a signal honor and would improve Tomas's chance for advancement, even earning him an officer's rank after fifteen or twenty years in the guard.
–Como decía aquel viejo anuncio: «Mi padre hizo su dinero a la vieja usanza: ganándolo.» Empezaron a irle bien las cosas justo cuando yo nací.
“To paraphrase that old commercial, ‘My father made his money the old-fashioned way, he earned it.’ He was just starting to hit it big when I was born.
Después de establecer lazos financieros, de corrupción o de complicidad con las principales familias de la ciudad y el estado, tenía dinero suficiente para decir basta, o para seguir ganándolo por medios convencionales.
After establishing ties with the principal families of the city and the state—money, corruption, complicity made very good relationships with these people—he had enough money to say basta, or to go on earning it by conventional means.
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