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La habitación estaba amueblada con un aparador y una mesa y unas sillas de estilo rústico, color nogalina.
The room was furnished with a sideboard, a table, and rustic-style walnut-colored chairs.
Nada de bigotes falsos ni de pintarse la cara con nogalina y hacerse pasar por Abdul el Aguador.
Not false whiskers and covering your face with walnut juice and letting on to be Abdul the Water-Carrier.
Veía de nuevo con toda precisión hasta los menores detalles, todas y cada una de las losas de la acera, los escaparates, al viejo ebanista con los dedos manchados de nogalina, el anticuario pálido y a su hija; luego, «la casa», el marco mismo de su pasado, «la casa» y su portal entreabierto y la portería, y su pisito en la planta baja, y Lisbeth, y, más lejos aún, toda su infancia repudiada… Lisbeth, su primera experiencia… En Viena, había conocido a otra Lisbeth, cuyo marido, celoso, se había matado… Repentinamente pensó que tendría que anunciar su viaje a Sophia, la hija del viejo Cammerzinn…
How vividly it all came back, down to the smallest detail: each slab of the sidewalk, every shop-front, the old cabinet-maker with his fingers stained walnut-brown, the gaunt-faced man and his daughter who kept the curiosity shop, and then “our place” (as Antoine called it), with its carriage entrance always kept ajar, and the concierge’s quarters on the ground floor, and Lisbeth, and, further back in time, all the childhood he had abjured: Lisbeth, his first experience. In Vienna he had known another Lisbeth, whose husband had killed himself out of jealousy. Suddenly he remembered he must warn Sophia, old Kammerzinn’s daughter, that he was leaving.
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