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Confinado por la verdad, por la vida, soy sin embargo la parte de él que siempre trató de prestar oído a tales sones.
Confined by truth, by Life, I’m nonetheless the part of him that always tried to listen out for that.
– Más bajo -dije al observar que, sin atreverse a acercarse, los compañeros parecían prestar oído.
“Not so loud,” I told him. I realized that, though they had not dared move closer to us, our companions all seemed to be straining their ears to listen.
Haciendo un esfuerzo, porque él tenía sus propios problemas, un poco menos triviales que aquellos, Garrett intentó prestar oído.
With an effort, for he had his own problem, one less trifling than these, Garrett pretended to listen.
En la otra mesa (no había más que dos) se acomodaron los dragones, cuchicheando entre sí, y es lástima que yo no prestara oído a sus palabras, pues me interesaban más de lo que yo podía imaginar.
About the other table—there were but two within the room—stood the dragoons in a whispered consultation, of which it had been well had I taken heed, for it concerned me more closely than I could have dreamt.
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