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EN The essay was for him the chief labour of his week and every Tuesday, as he marched from home to the school, he read his fate in the incidents of the way, pitting himself against some figure ahead of him and quickening his pace to outstrip it before a certain goal was reached or planting his steps scrupulously in the spaces of the patchwork of the pathway and telling himself that he would be first and not first in the weekly essay.
GL A composición literaria era para el a principal ocupación da semana e cada martes, mentres ía da casa ao colexio, agoiraba a sorte que lle agardaba nos accidentes do camiño, fixábase en calquera figura diante del e apresuraba o paso para superala antes de chegar a un punto determinado, e chantaba escrupulosamente os pés nos intersticios das laxes do paseo preguntándose se sería ou non o primeiro na composición semanal.
Fonte: RET (1663)

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