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Él era un hombre culto, mientras que el granjero sólo podía reconocer con dificultad las letras unciales y no era capaz de leer con seguridad ni su propio nombre.
He was a lettered man, but the farmer could only spell out large uncials with difficulty, and was none too sure of the reading even of his own name.
A veces leían juntos los libros sagrados, e inclinados con afán, superaban la dificultad y acababan desentrañando siempre las palabras eslavas, vertidas en escritura uncial, del Nuevo Testamento y de los textos apócrifos.
Sometimes they would read the holy books together, both leaning forward eagerly, with difficulty but always triumphantly making out the Slavic words, written in bold uncial script, of the New Testament and Apochryphal stories.
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