Pero ya los dependientes habían empezado a
sacudirse las cadenas; ya no eran aquellos parias del tiempo de D.
Baldomero I, a quienes no se permitía salir sino los domingos y en
comunidad, y cuyo vestido se confeccionaba por un patrón único, para que
resultasen uniformados como colegiales o presidiarios.
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But the shop assistants had already begun to shake off their shackles; they were no longer the outcasts of Don Baldomero I’s time, who were only allowed out on Sundays and in groups, and whose clothes were made to a single pattern so that they looked like uniforms as schoolboys' or convicts'.
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