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Después, el regreso a la patria, una existencia envenenada y vacía, mezquinos cuidados y agitaciones, un arrepentimiento amargo y estéril, un olvido no menos estéril ni menos amargo; un castigo vago, pero incesante y eterno, análogo a un sufrimiento poco agudo, pero incurable, a una deuda que se paga ochavo a ochavo sin poder finiquitarla nunca.
Then the going home to his own country, the poisoned, the devastated life, the petty interests and petty cares, bitter and fruitless regret, and as bitter and fruitless apathy, a punishment not apparent, but of every minute, continuous, like some trivial but incurable disease, the payment farthing by farthing of the debt, which can never be settled....
Nadie podía eximirse alegando pobreza; sea como fuere, las exigencias de la sociedad han de ser satisfechas hasta el último ochavo. En las bodas, la familia del novio recurría a toda clase de artimañas para aumentar todo lo posible los gastos a satisfacer por el padre de la novia, sin ninguna compasión para el desventurado.
No one will accept the excuse of poverty or any other form of inability—no matter how it is accomplished society's heartless claim has to be satisfied to the very last farthing. On the occasion of a marriage the bridegroom's party adopt all sorts of tactics to make the burden of the girl's father as intolerable as possible, and show no trace of pity for the unfortunate man.
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