estarricar

EN But this was suddenly interrupted, William Bankes remembered (and this must refer to some actual incident), by a hen, straddling her wings out in protection of a covey of little chicks, upon which Ramsay, stopping, pointed his stick and said 'Pretty -- pretty,' an odd illumination into his heart, Bankes had thought it, which showed his simplicity, his sympathy with humble things; but it seemed to him as if their friendship had ceased, there, on that stretch of road.
GL Pero houbo unha interrupción súbita, lembrou William Bankes (e debía de ter algo que ver cun incidente concreto) pois unha galiña estarricaba as ás protexendo a súa niñada de pitiños, ante o cal Ramsay, deténdose, sinalounos co seu bastón e dixo: «Fermoso, fermoso», unha revelación estraña dentro do seu corazón, pensaba Bankes, que amosaba a súa sinxeleza, o seu aprecio polas cousas humildes; pero deulle a impresión de que a súa amizade rematara, alí, naquel treito do camiño.
Fonte: CAR (201)

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