Como los palomos no comen sino del pico de la madre, Fortunata se los metía en el seno, ¡y si vieras tú qué seno tan bonito!, sólo que tenía muchos rasguños que le hacían los palomos con los garfios de sus patas.
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Since pigeons eat only from their mother’s beak, Fortunata would tuck them inside her bodice—and if only you could have seen what a beautiful bosom it was!—except that it bore many scratches inflicted by the pigeons with the little hooks of their claws.
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