Guapeza valenciana




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Salían a conversación todos los amigos que se hallaban ausentes por voluntad o por fuerza; el tío Tripa, que había muerto hecho un santo después de una vida de trueno; los Donsainers, huidos a Buenos Aires por unos golpes tan mal dados, que el asunto no se pudo arreglar ni aun mediando el mismo gobernador de la provincia; y la gente de menor cuantía que estaba en San Agustín o San Miguel de los Reyes, inocentones que se echaron a valientes, sin contra antes con buenos protectores.

¡Cristo! Que era una lástima que hombres de tanto mérito hubieran muerto o se hallaran pudriendo en la cárcel o en el extranjero. Aquéllos eran valientes de verdad, no los de ahora, que son en su mayoría unos muertos de hambre, a quienes la miseria obliga a echárselas de guapo a falta de valor para pegarse un tiro.

There were going out to conversation all the friends who were absent for will or by force; the uncle Tripa, that a saint had died made after a life of thunder; the Donsainers fled to Buenos Aires by a few blows so badly given, that the matter could not get ready even not even coming up the same governor of the province; and the insignificant people who was in San Agustín or San Miguel of the Kings, inocentones that began to brave, without against earlier with good protectors.

Christ! That it was a shame that men of so much merit had died or were rotting in the jail or abroad. Those were brave really, the same as now, that are mostly a few dead persons of famine, to whom the misery forces to throw them of gallant for lack of value to a shot stick.

vocabulary
salir a conversación = to turn the conversation on sth.
hallarse ausente = to be absent
el tío = guy
una vida de trueno = scandalous life
mediar = to mediate
de menor cuantía = marginal
echarse a valiente = to become brave, belligerent
pudrir = to decay
un muerto de hambre = starveling
echárselas de guapo = to act up as a roughneck






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