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Siguió a un botones uniformado a lo largo de un pasillo, muellemente alfombrado, hasta una puerta de caoba, que se abrió casi al mismo tiempo que el botones apretó el timbre.
He followed the uniformed page down a softly carpeted corridor to a mahogany door, which opened almost immediately the page pressed the bell.
Embarullábase Sanin y se atascaba en sus frases, mientras que la señora Polozoff, que se había reclinado en el respaldo de la butaca muellemente, le miraba cruzada de manos, con el mismo claro y atento mirar.
Sanin got confused, and lost the thread of what he was saying, while Maria Nikolaevna softly leaned back in her easy-chair, folded her arms, and watched him with the same attentive bright look.
Muellemente recostada sobre un largo cojín de lino azul, festoneado de esmeraldas y rubíes y semicubierta por un inmenso abanico de plumas de avestruz de mango muy largo que una joven etíope movía, se hallaba una hermosísima muchacha, que lucía largos collares de piedras preciosas en su cuello y anchos brazaletes de oro en sus muñecas; sobre la cabeza llevaba una extraña diadema formada por laminillas de oro y delante un gavilán, el símbolo de derecho sobre la vida y la muerte.
Softly lying on a large blue linen cushion, sprinkled with emeralds and rubies and half covered by an immense fan of ostrich feathers, with a very long handle, which a young Ethiopian slave was holding, was a beautiful girl, who had long necklaces of precious stones around his neck and large gold bracelets on his wrists and on his head he wore a strange hairstyle made up of golden laminas, with a sparrow hawk head in front of him, the symbol of the right to life and death.
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