I had this from Harmon Gow, who had driven the stage from Bettsbridge to Starkfield in pre-trolley days and knew the chronicle of all the families on his line.įue allí donde le vi por primera vez, hace ya varios años, y la verdad es que me impresionó mucho su aspecto. Todavía era el personaje más sorprendente de Starkfield, pese a ser ya sólo una ruina de hombre. No era su elevada estatura lo que le hacía destacar, pues los «nativos» se diferenciaban claramente por su flaca altura de las gentes de origen extranjero, más bajas y achaparradas: era aquel aspecto vigoroso e indiferente, pese a una cojera que frenaba cada uno de sus pasos como el tirón de una cadena. Había algo lúgubre e inabordable en su rostro y estaba tan tieso y canoso que le tomé por un viejo y me sorprendí mucho al enterarme de que no tenía más de cincuenta y dos años. Me lo dijo Harmon Gow, que había conducido la diligencia de Bettsbridge a Starkfield en los tiempos en que aún no había ferrocarril y que conocía la crónica de todas las familias del trayecto. "He′s looked that way ever since he had his smash-up and that′s twenty-four years ago come next February," Harmon threw out between reminiscent pauses. Está así desde el accidente y de eso hará veinticuatro años el próximo febrero -me dijo Harmon, en medio de evocadoras pausas.
The "smash-up" it was-I gathered from the same informant-which, besides drawing the red gash across Ethan Frome′s forehead, had so shortened and warped his right side that it cost him a visible effort to take the few steps from his buggy to the post-office window. He used to drive in from his farm every day at about noon, and as that was my own hour for fetching my mail I often passed him in the porch or stood beside him while we waited on the motions of the distributing hand behind the grating.
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