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Poco a poco fueron abandonando las actividades que le daban sentido a sus días, se hicieron sedentarios y comenzaron a morirse.
Little by little they abandoned all the activities that gave meaning to their days, they became sedentary, and they started to die off.
Sylvia se consolaba pensando que no tardarían en morirse, y que no había nadie del mismo calibre que pudiera ocupar el sitio de aquellas viejas incorruptibles, cargadas de encajes negros y diamantes, capaces de oponer su desaprobación hasta a las preferencias del rey.
It was an uncomfortable admission. Sylvia took comfort in the thought that soon they would die off, and that there was no one of quite their calibre to take their place—those old Incorruptibles, in their black lace and their diamonds, who could set their disapproval even upon the choice of the King.
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