Esta niña y otras del barrio, bien apañaditas por sus respectivas mamás,
peinadas a estilo de maja, con peineta y flores en la cabeza, y sobre
los hombros pañuelo de Manila de los que llaman de talle, se reunían en
un portal de la calle de Postas para pedir _el cuartito para la Cruz de
Mayo_, el 3 de dicho mes, repicando en una bandeja de plata, junto a una
mesilla forrada de damasco rojo.
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This little girl, together with others of the neighbourhood, carefully arrayed by their respective mothers, their hair dressed in the maja fashion, with comb and flowers in it, and with Manila shawls of the sort called de talle thrown over their shoulders, would gather in a doorway in the Calle de Postas to ask for ‘the little coin for the Cross of May’ on the third day of that month, making a merry clatter upon a silver tray beside a small table covered with red damask.
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markvanroode 6763
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This little girl and others of the neighbourhood, carefully arrayed by their respective mothers, their hair dressed in the maja fashion, with comb and flowers in it, and with Manila shawls of the sort called de talle thrown over their shoulders, would gather in a doorway in the Calle de Postas to ask for ‘the little coin for the Cross of May’ on the third day of that month, making a merry clatter upon a silver tray beside a small table covered with red damask.
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markvanroode 6763
1 month, 1 week ago
Discussion
I think it would be better if: this little girl AND others...,...arrayed ( or you need the verb in singular, this girl being the subject---I think
by Boot2 1 month, 1 week ago“This little girl, together with others of the neighbourhood, carefully arrayed by their respective mothers, their hair dressed in the maja fashion, with comb and flowers in it, and with Manila shawls of the sort called de talle thrown over their shoulders, would gather in a doorway in the Calle de Postas to ask for ‘the little coin for the Cross of May’ on the third day of that month, making a merry clatter upon a silver tray beside a small table covered with red damask.”
by markvanroode 1 month, 1 week ago