sisoy

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Father Sisoy came into the bedroom with a candle.
Al dormitorio entró el padre Sisói con una vela.
Sisoy took off the bishop's shirt and began rubbing his chest and back with tallow.
Sisói le quitó el camisón y empezó a frotarle el pecho y la espalda con el sebo de vela.
Through the wall Father Sisoy was snoring in the next room, and his aged snore had a sound that suggested loneliness, forlornness, even vagrancy.
En el aposento contiguo, tras la pared, roncaba el padre Sisói, y algo solitario, huérfano, incluso errante se oía en su ronquido anciano.
Sisoy went back to his room and a little later made his appearance in his boots, with a candle; he had on his cassock over his underclothes and on his head was an old faded skull-cap.
Sisói fue a su aposento y, un poco después, apareció ya con botas, con una velita; por encima de la ropa interior llevaba la sotana, en la cabeza una escofia vieja, desteñida.
And why, he wondered, did she chatter away to Sisoy and laugh so much; while with him, her son, she was grave and usually silent and constrained, which did not suit her at all.
¿Y por qué, se preguntaba, ella hablaba con Sisói sin cesar y se reía mucho, y con él, con su hijo, era seria, callaba comúnmente, se avergonzaba, algo que no le iba en absoluto?
At last the door opened, and Sisoy came in with a candle and a tea-cup in his hand.
Finalmente, la puerta se abrió, entró Sisói con una vela y una taza de té en las manos.
Father Sisoy could be heard coughing, muttering something in a discontented voice, then he got up and walked barefoot about the rooms.
Se oía cómo el padre Sisói tosía, rezongaba algo con voz insatisfecha, después se levantó y se paseó descalzo por los aposentos.
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