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La sencillez del atuendo sugería que estaba preparado para salir a montar, cazar, viajar o pelear, nada de lo cual requería de molestos perejiles.
The simplicity of line suggested he would be ready to ride, hunt, travel or fight, and not be encumbered by frippery.
No pudo ser fácil para un joven de Baltimore con solo una modesta asignación de su familia, cierta erudición y una enorme fe en la superioridad de su gusto, espíritu e intelecto, asaltar sin ayuda de nadie la ciudadela de la sociedad europea, asaltarla, romper sus murallas y entrar triunfante a caballo en su plaza para luego asestar el coup de grâce del conquistador al fingir retirarse de los aburridos perejiles de la vida pública y recluirse en su propia ciudadela, la fortaleza de su amor propio.
It could not have been at all easy for a young man from Baltimore with nothing to his name save a modest allowance from his family, some learning, and a great belief in his own superiority in taste, spirit and intellect, to storm single-handedly the citadel of European society, to storm it, and breach its walls, and ride triumphant into its central square, and then deliver the conqueror’s coup de grâce by seeming to retreat from the tiresome fripperies of public life and immure himself in his own citadel, the fortress of his self-regard.
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