La apretaba con tal ímpetu que parecía poseída por una fuerza sobrehumana.
Her grip was so strong, as if she were possessed by forces beyond herself.
Schwamm era luterano y no sabía, por tanto, que aunque aquella oración había poseído antaño una fuerza extraordinaria para Adolf, ahora le resultaba conocida.
Schwamm was a Lutheran and so would not know that if this prayer had once possessed extraordinary force for Adolf, it was by now familiar.
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